Infection Prevention Considerations for Critical Care: Picking Up the Pandemic Pieces Webinar

Author: Joan Hebden, RN, MS, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA

This webinar, originally presented at the virtual National Teaching Institute & Critical Care Exposition (NTI), will discuss how certain Healthcare-Associated Infection (HAI) rates increased during the COVID-19 pandemic in the critical care units and which infection prevention considerations could be implemented to bring them back down. To download the full presentation, click here.

Objectives

• Identify the impact that COVID 19 has had on healthcare-associated infection (HAI) rates in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
• State the potential contributing factors to these increased HAI rates.
• Propose infection prevention interventions to mitigate the increased HAI rates.