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Infection Control Week
INFECTION CONTROL WEEK - October  2011

Check out our webinar series developed for and delivered during Infection Control Week 2011!
                            
infection prevention and control week idea planner
Rise to the Occasion, revised and streamlined to make your idea selection even easier this year! Templates for activities can be found inside this fabulous resource and three sets of additional activity sheets are listed below:

Infection Control Week Activity Pages - Set 1
Infection Control Week Activity Pages - Set 2
Infection Control Week Activity Pages - Set 3

Whatever you decide to do for your IC Week, please let us know about it and complete an Evaluation of these materials.
Bug of the month
 

 Learning about infections and their control shouldn't be limited to IC Week - use these 'Bug of the Month' information sheets to heighten awareness about microorganisms in your health care facility over the next 12 months!

After reviewing these sheets, please take a moment to complete and return the evaluation form - we appreciate your thoughts.

Scabies
Hepatitis B
Hepatitis C
MRSA
Rotavirus
Shingles
VRE
Influenza
Norovirus
RSV
Tuberculosis
C. difficile

Electronic Games
 

Use these interactive, electronic games for staff education during IC Week. Game topics include environmental cleaning, based on the newest PIDAC best practice document, food safety for dietary staff in health care facilities, and influenza – a great review for all staff!

Be sure to read the ‘How to Use Electronic Games’ for information and tips to make your session run smoothly. Please take a moment after you’ve used a game to complete and return the evaluation form – we appreciate your thoughts.

Environmental Cleaning

Food Safety for Dietary Staff

Influenza

Game Instructions

Evaluation

POSITIVE DEVIANCE PRESENTATIONS

Positive Deviance (PD) is a new and innovative approach to support and engage changing communities. The premise of PD is that the solutions to the problem already exist within the group. Positive Deviance and Culture Change Sessions are a new offering for IC Week, these presentations by Dr. Gardam and Liz Rykert will be available during and following IC Week.

PD tools for controlling superbugs

Presenter: Michael Gardam MSc, MD, CM, MSc, FRCPC
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control and Tuberculosis Clinic; University Health Network

Using Positive Deviance to help control superbugs in healthcare

Presenter: Michael Gardam MSc, MD, CM, MSc, FRCPC
Medical Director, Infection Prevention and Control and Tuberculosis Clinic; University Health Network

Shifting Culture

Presenter: Liz Rykert BSW
Infection Control Senior Officer
Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion




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