ICT Conference on Professional Development

Making the Business Case for Infection Prevention
Speaker: Denise Murphy

Session Purpose: The user will be able to explain the process and key components of making a business case for infection prevention to hospital administration that will benefit the user’s infection control program, policies and procedures.

Session Objectives:
1. The user will be able to define what it means to make a business case for infection prevention.
2. The user will be able to calculate attributable costs of hospital-acquired infections (HAIs) from either organizational data or data from the medical literature.
3. The user will be able to use economic data to help demonstrate the case for improved infection prevention and control program budgets and resources.

This activity has been submitted to the Arizona Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Arizona Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The certificate and contact hour for this session will be awarded upon passing the post-test with a grade of 80% or better and the completion of the course evaluation.

Collaboration Between IP, OR and SPD
Speaker: Cynthia Spry

Session Purpose: The user will be able to explain the importance of collaboration between infection prevention, the operating room and the sterile processing department to help prevent hospital-acquired infections.

Session Objectives:
1. The user will be able to discuss the importance and benefits of collaboration between the operating room, sterile
processing and infection prevention.
2. The user will be able to identify barriers to collaboration.
3. The user will be able to evaluate opportunities and strategies for collaboration.

This activity has been submitted to the Arizona Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Arizona Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The certificate and contact hour for this session will be awarded upon passing the post-test with a grade of 80% or better and the completion of the course evaluation.

Environmental Hygiene and Infection Prevention
Speaker: Karen Martin

Session Purpose: The user will be able to explain the ramifications of proper environmental hygiene on the pursuit of infection prevention and control.

Session Objectives:
1. The user will be able to describe how the hospital environment can be linked to hospital-acquired infections (HAIs).
2. The user will be able to explain how microorganisms can persist in the hospital environment.
3. The user will be able to describe factors related to environmental cleaning.

This activity has been submitted to the Arizona Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The Arizona Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The certificate and contact hour for this session will be awarded upon passing the post-test with a grade of 80% or better and the completion of the course evaluation.