The June 2019 issue of the ICCS Infection Prevention & Control Newsletter has published.
The issue includes stories on new Joint Commission antimicrobial stewardship requirements, faucet dangers, cell phone bacteria, dental antibiotics, fecal transplants and CAUTI technology.
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In May, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), in partnership with the National Tuberculosis Controllers Association (NTCA), released updated tuberculosis recommendations for screening, testing and treatment of healthcare personnel.
In support of these new TB guidelines, CDC has published a helpful infographic that summarizes the recommendations, shared below.
The infographic is available as a downloadable PDF, which can be accessed by clicking the image.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has launched a new infection control training course series.
The series will include 11 courses. The first two — available now — focus on hand hygiene and competency-based training. The courses are part of the new CDC/States Targeting Reduction in Infections via Engagement (STRIVE) curriculum, which was developed by infection prevention experts led by the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) for CDC.
The STRIVE curriculum will include more than 40 individual training modules. The CDC states that individual modules can be used for new employee training, annual infection prevention training and periodic training. They will be grouped into 11 courses that focus on foundational and targeted infection prevention strategies.
The courses are broken down as follows:
Hand hygiene
Competency-based training
Strategies for preventing healthcare-acquired infections (HAIs)
Environmental cleaning
Personal protective equipment (PPE)
Patient and family engagement
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteremia
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI)
Central line-associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI)
All courses are free and offer continuing education.
Learn more about STRIVE and access the first two courses available here.