Hospital Infection Control & Prevention (Vol. 42 No. 8)

Read the Disclosure Information Below, then click “Continue” to begin testing.

Release date: August 2015

Valid through: August 2018

Target Audience

This activity is intended for infection preventionists and healthcare epidemiologists.

Subjects

MERS surge: Virus explodes in Korea, CDC ups U.S. guidelines
Treating HAIs like Ebola could save lives
Eyewitness to history: IPs recount their Ebola stories.
APIC President: IPs are ‘living history’
509 healthcare workers have died in Ebola outbreak in Africa
TB report leads to OSHA ramping up healthcare inspections
APIC looks to frame the future, empower IPs
C. diff causing thousands of fatal infections in long term care

Objectives

Identify the clinical, legal, or educational issues encountered by infection preventionists and epidemiologists:
Describe the effect of infection control and prevention issues on nurses, hospitals, or the healthcare industry in general:
Cite solutions to the problems encountered by infection preventionists based on guidelines from the relevant regulatory authorities, and/or independent recommendations from clinicians at individual institutions.

Sponsor

This activity is sponsored by AHC Media.

Accreditation Statement

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation

Physicians

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses

This activity has been approved for 1.25 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour.

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14749, for 1.25 Contact Hours.

Nurses licensed in California should retain this credit letter for four years.

Faculty Listing

Authors

Senior Writer Gary Evans

Editors

Medical Editors: Patrick Joseph, MD, Chief of Epidemiology

San Ramon (CA) Regional Medical Center and

President, California Infection Control

Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, FAAN Associate Professor, Nursing Otterbein University Westerville, OH

AHC Media Associate Managing Editor: Dana Spector

Financial Disclosure

Senior Writer Gary Evans, Associate Managing Editor Dana Spector and Nurse Planner Kay Ball, report no consultant, stockholder, speaker’s bureau, research, or other financial relationships with companies having ties to this field of study. Consulting Editor Patrick Joseph, MD is laboratory director of Genomic Health Inc, Care Dx Clinical Laboratory, and Siemens Clinical Laboratory

Hospital Infection Control & Prevention (Vol. 42 No. 8) - August 1, 2015