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Purchase access to this issue of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention, including Continuing Education!

Hospital Infection Control & Prevention – now in its 42nd year – offers infection preventionists strategies for success that can be immediately implemented to prevent costly infections. Each monthly, peer reviewed issue provides comprehensive, authoritative articles that address your most pressing concerns. Through the newsletter's concise and practical coverage you will:

• stay up-to-date on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services increasing focus on infection control as a critical aspect of patient safety;
• get the latest prevention strategies against emerging antibiotic resistant bacteria like CRE
• know what The Joint Commission surveyors look for in accreditation surveys
• learn expert compliance improvement strategies for the latest CDC guidelines and recommendations, CMS regulations and OSHA requirements

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Faculty:

Consulting Editor:
Patrick Joseph, MD, Chief of Epidemiology, San Ramon (CA) Regional Medical Center and President, California Infection Control Consultants.

Kay Ball, RN, PhD, CNOR, FAAN Perioperative Consultant/Educator, Lewis Center, OH & Associate Professor Nursing, Otterbein University, Westerville, OH.

Objectives:

The objectives of Hospital Infection Control & Prevention are to:

• Identify the clinical, legal, or educational issues encountered by infection preventionists and epidemiologists;
• Describe the effect of infection control and prevention issues on nurses, hospitals, or the health care industry in general; and
• Cite solutions to the problems encountered by infection preventionists based on guidelines from the relevant regulatory authorities, and/or independent recommendations from clinicians at individual institutions.

Target Audience:

This activity is intended for infection preventionists, health care epidemiologists and infectious disease physicians

Accreditation:

AHC Media is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

AHC Media is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.

Credit Designation:

AHC Media designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (18 per year). Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. 

This activity has been approved for 1.25 nursing contact hours using a 60-minute contact hour (15 per year).

Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider # CEP14749, for 1.25 Contact Hours (15 per year).

This activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.

Instructions for Participation:

Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CNE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will be directed to an online activity evaluation form. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter.