Environmental Services and Infection Prevention Collaboration

Attendees will identify why collaboration between environmental services and infection prevention is essential and the ways these two disciplines can partner to help eliminate and control healthcare-acquired infections arising from the contaminated healthcare environment.

Learning objectives:

• Describe the importance of environmental services' role in the prevention of healthcare-acquired infections.
• Identify and discuss the barriers to collaboration between environmental services and infection prevention.
• Discuss solutions to better partnering and how infection prevention can better champion environmental services' role in the hospital.

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Speakers:

John Leander Po, MSc, MD, PhD
John Leander Po, MSc, MD, PhD, is chair of the Infection Control Committee at Banner Estrella Medical Center in Phoenix, Ariz. as well as president of the Arizona Infectious Disease Society. He has dual board certification in infectious disease and internal medicine. He has conducted research in the role of the environment pertaining to healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs) and has been published in the American Journal of Infection Control (November 2009) on computer keyboard cleaning in the ICU. He is an experienced educator, having taught environmental services teams on their role in preventing HAIs.

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.

This Webinar's contact hour will expire two years from the date of the live event.

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