IP & ES: Perfect Together -- Meeting Expectations, Coping with Reality & Fostering Collaboration

This session will discuss regulatory issues which guide environmental practices, will discuss strategies for fostering collaboration between the IC & ES departments that result in more effective infection prevention within the healthcare facility, and will describe practical approaches to meeting growing infection prevention challenges while aligning the realities of departmental and organizational goals and constraints. The provider, Infection Control Today/Virgo Publishing LLC, is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 15619, for 1 contact hour of continuing education.

Eligible for 1.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU)

Speaker: Kathleen Roye-Horn, RN, CIC

Kathleen Roye-Horn, RN, CIC, is the director of infection control services for Hunterdon Healthcare System in Flemington, N.J., with more than 20 years of experience in infection control and epidemiology. She has been certified in infection control since 1990. Horn is a past-president of the National Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology (CBIC) and currently co-chairs the National APIC Practice Guidance Internal Documents Committee. She has twice served as NNJ APIC president and is a founding member and faculty for the Northeastern Infection Control Course. She is a liaison to the New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services and has served on many of their committees including healthcare licensure, emergency preparedness, mandatory reporting and latex allergy.