APIC Greater NY
THANK YOU!!
Preconference Workshop
• Advanced Practice Workshop
– Making the Pitch to Executive Row
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Potential revenue
ROI (return on investment)
New technology
Potential decrease in HAI
– Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
– High Reliability Organization
– Human Factors 101
• Positive deviance
SATURDAY
• CAUTI and Quality Improvement
• Lessons from the Field: Successful Infection
Prevention Strategies in the Emergency
Department
• Multidimensional Hand Hygiene Strategies to
Improve Compliance, Maintain Momentum, and
Keep Hand Hygiene in the Forefront of Infection
Prevention
SUNDAY
• Parallel Plenaries
– Intended and Unintended Consequences of
Public Reporting
• Outside the Box for SSI Reduction: Partnering
with Skilled Nursing
• Ambulatory Colonoscopy Infection Prevention
• Are You Prepared to Defend Your
Program in Court? Diary of a Deposed
Infection Preventionist
Are You Prepared to Defend Your Program in Court?
Diary of a Deposed Infection Preventionist
Monday
• NHSN Surveillance and Prevention: Long-Term
Care Facilities
• State Regulated Mandatory Reporting of
Healthcare-Associated Infections and Its Impact
on Infection Rates in Acute and Long-Term Care
Settings
• Preventing a Zombie Pandemic: A
Lighthearted Case Study of Epidemic
Spread, Neural Disease Pathology, and
Assessment of Preventative Strategies
Preventing a Zombie Pandemic: A Lighthearted Case Study of Epidemic
Spread, Neural Disease Pathology, and Assessment of Preventative
Strategies