Webinars
This program consists of four live webinars. Details on each can be found below.
May 21 | Safe injection practices/occupational health
1 – 1:05 p.m.
Opening remarks
Speaker:
Rodolfo Simons, CIC, Assistant Director, Infection Prevention, Mount Sinai Hospital, and Past President, New York State APIC Coordinating Council
1:05 – 2:15 p.m.
Safe injection practices
Speaker:
Ernest J. Clement, MSN, RN, CIC, Director, Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections, New York State Department of Health
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- describe unsafe injection practices and their risks;
- identify safe injection practices; and
- explain the process of responding to unsafe injection incidents.
2:15 – 2:25 p.m.
Break
Active conversation with faculty or networking time
2:25 – 3:55 p.m.
Communicable diseases in the workplace: Keeping healthcare workers safe
Speaker:
Geeta Sood, MD, ScM, Medical Director, Bureau of Healthcare Associated Infections, New York State Department of Health, and Assistant Professor, Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- explain the role of occupational health strategies in protecting healthcare workers and patients from communicable diseases;
- list the signs and symptoms that should prompt evaluation of healthcare workers; and
- provide resources for evaluating healthcare workers infected with HIV, HBV and/or HCV.
3:55 – 4 p.m.
Closing remarks
Speaker:
Charlene J. Ludlow, RN, BSN, MHA, CIC, Senior Vice President, Nursing, Erie County Medical Center