Cheryl Connors, is a Patient Safety Specialist for the Johns Hopkins Hospital and the Johns Hopkins Armstrong Institute for Patient Safety and Quality (AI) where she is responsible for planning, implementing and evaluating safety programs. She co-led the development and implementation of the Resiliency In Stressful Events (RISE) team and serves as the Director. RISE provides trained peer support for Johns Hopkins Hospital employees who encounter stressful, patient-related events.
During this seminar, Cheryl will share elements of a synergistic relationship that can support healthcare leaders like Infection Preventionists (IP) and frontline healthcare workers (HCW) through a crisis. Pairing IP with RISE during a prolonged disaster like the COVID-19 pandemic is crucial to maintaining resiliency while continuing the difficult work of patient safety and infection prevention. Looking ahead, it’s unclear how long the impact of this pandemic will continue, but adaptation and rebuilding efforts will be needed for decades to come.
Learning Objectives:
- Acknowledge the mental, physical and emotional energy required by Infection Preventionists during the COVID-19 pandemic.
- Identify needs of healthcare leaders and frontline healthcare workers during a pandemic crisis.
- Discuss the comprehensive support plan that was successfully established at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
- Create a draft support plan that can be adapted to your local work environment.
Automated Hand Hygiene Compliance Monitoring: What Does the Evidence Say?
The current “gold standard” for hand hygiene compliance is direct observation. However, there has been awareness of the limitations this method has for decades. This presentation will provide an overview of the published evidence surrounding AHHMS and look at best practices and future opportunities.
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