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Hand hygiene's role in preventing and controlling HAIs
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Length: 60 minutes
Description: This Webinar will address the morbidity and mortality associated with hand-transmission of infectious agents; the scope of the problem of non-compliance with hand hygiene; the top reasons why healthcare workers are not engaging in hand hygiene; what the current literature indicates; and where hand hygiene is going from here. The speaker will also discuss the CDC's hand hygiene guidelines as well as other initiatives to boost hand hygiene compliance.
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Speakers:
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 Maryanne McGuckin,
Dr.ScEd., MT (ASCP), has been at the University of Pennsylvania since 1968; she is an adjunct associate professor in the School of Medicine, where she also serves as a senior research investigator. She has received multiple awards for her research in the infection control and microbiology fields, including the American Society for Microbiology-Clay Adams Research Award. She also was a visiting researcher at Oxford University from 1998 to 1999. As an infection control expert with more than 30 years of experience Dr. McGuckin created the Partners in Your Care program, a hand-hygiene program which combines monitoring and patient empowerment and used in more than 300 hospitals and has shown a mean improvement in hand hygiene compliance of 59 percent. Dr. McGuckin also served on the 2002 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) task force that developed hand hygiene guidelines for healthcare workers. Dr. McGuckin is highly regarded in the medical field and has been a featured speaker at numerous medical seminars and scientific meetings such as theCDC, the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Hospitals, and the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC). An accomplished author of countless original and peer-reviewed articles, Dr. McGuckins work has also appeared in such publications as the American Journal of Medical Technology, JAMA, the New England Journal of Medicine, the American Journal of Infection Control and Epidemiology, the American Journal of Surgery and the Journal of Urology. Dr. McGuckin also is an expert source for national print and broadcast media including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Dateline, 60 Minutes, and MSNBC News. |
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