presented by Lisa A. Gorski, MS, RN, HHCNS-BC, CRNI, FAAN
Financial - Lisa Gorski receives compensation from MedBridge for the production of this course. She also receives compensation from BD Medical, Genentech, ivWatch, and Saxe Communications.
Nonfinancial - Lisa Gorski is a Chairperson, Infusion Nurses Certification Corporation and Infusion Nurses Society Standards of Practice Committee.
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Lisa A. Gorski, MS, RN, HHCNS-BC, CRNI, FAAN
Lisa A. Gorski, MS, RN, HHCNS-BC, CRNI, FAAN, has worked for more than 30 years as a clinical nurse specialist (CNS) for Wheaton Franciscan Home Health & Hospice, now part of Ascension at Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. As a CNS, she has developed and oversees the home infusion therapy program, provides staff education, and is…
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1. Overview: Infection Prevention and Control and Home Care
Preventing infections among the home care patient population is a critical priority for home care organizations. As of 2018, the Medicare Conditions of Participation require that agencies establish, document, and maintain a home health infection control and prevention program with a goal of preventing and controlling infections and communicable diseases. This section includes a brief history of infection control and home care and highlights issues unique to infection control in the home setting.
2. Standard Precautions: Focus on Hand Hygiene
Hand hygiene, a component of standard precautions, is critically important to the prevention of infections, yet health care workers across all settings are not consistently compliant with its performance. The transmission of infection via hands is reviewed and guidelines for handwashing with soap and water and hand hygiene using an alcohol-based hand rub are described and demonstrated in this chapter.
3. Standard Precautions: Focus on Personal Protective Equipment and Respiratory Hygiene
Continuing on with the components of standard precautions, the use and application of personal protective equipment and respiratory hygiene are addressed. It is important that all home care workers have PPE readily available at all times and know when to use PPE. Proper donning and removal of PPE is demonstrated in this chapter.
4. Standard Precautions: Safe Injection Practices
Safe injection practices include attention to aseptic technique and single-patient-use supplies. The differences between single-dose and multidose vials are addressed.
5. Standard Precautions: Handling, Cleaning, and Disinfecting of Home Care Worker and Patient Care Equipment/Devices
The discussion regarding standard precautions continues with attention to patient care equipment and device use. Cleaning versus disinfection and noncritical versus semicritical and critical medical devices are defined in this chapter. It is important for home care workers to recognize the risk of microbial transmission from commonly used equipment, including mobile phones and computers. The patient care environment poses risks as well, including floor surfaces and other frequently touched environmental surfaces. Cleaning and disinfection practices are provided.
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