2023 ND Infection Prevention Conference

Schedule

Time	Session
7:30 - 8:00 am	Registration & Exhibits Open
8:15 am	Conference Welcome
8:30 - 9:00 am	Outsmarting Germs by Disrupting Their Spread Debbie Hurst, RN, CHESP, CIC Hands-On Infection Control Consulting Services Eagle Point, OR This session will discuss basic microbiology of harmful germs, the pathways that they take to cause harm and the simple ways we can take to outsmart them in order to prevent their spread. Debbie Hurst is a registered nurse with nearly 40 years of nursing experience in healthcare, including 26 years in the field of infection prevention and control. She has been board certified by CBIC in Infection Control (CIC) since 1998 and is certified by the American Hospital Association as a Healthcare Environmental Services Professional (CHESP).As a healthcare consultant, she brings a wealth of healthcare knowledge to those in need of specialized infection prevention and control input and guidance. This may range from providing turn‐key infection control training for long term care facilities, partnering with industry partners for promoting best infection control practices in their companies, working with medical device and product vendors on special projects, to consulting with healthcare systems in need of high level infection control program development projects.Her passion lies in education and over the past several years Debbie has been providing “out of the box” educational ideas related to training on infection control topics for healthcare workers. This has included the creation of fun and engaging animated infection control based training videos as well as the launching of an on‐line school for Infection Control training that promotes a fun and “hands‐on” approach to learning.As a nationally recognized healthcare consultant, educator and presenter, specializing in many aspects of infection prevention and control, it is her desire to help create strong partnerships with all healthcare disciplines in all settings in order to provide the safest, best patient and resident care possible
9:00 - 9:30 am	Simple Ways to do Great Things - Improving Your Hand Hygiene and Glove Use Practices Debbie Hurst, RN, CHESP, CIC Hands-On Infection Control Consulting Services Eagle Point, OR In this session we will cover how hand hygiene and wearing gloves works to prevent the spread of germs. We will also discuss the simple ways healthcare workers can improve their current practices for safer care for themselves and others.
9:30 - 10:00 am	Break & Exhibits Open
10:00 - 10:45 am	Escape Room/Audience Games
10:45 - 11:45 am	Clean, Sanitize or Disinfect? Environmental Hygiene Quiz Show for Frontline Healthcare Providers! Rebecca Battjes, MPH, CIC, FAPIC Diversey This interactive session will focus on the concepts of cleaning, sanitizing and disinfection. While many people use these terms interchangeably, each process has very unique impacts on the removal of germs in our lives and at work. We will explore real life examples in a variety of settings in a quiz show format, so have your smartphones ready! Rebecca Battjes MPH, CIC, FAPIC is an Infection Prevention Senior Clinical Advisor for Diversey. In this role, Rebecca serves as an infection prevention and control resource and industry liaison to support the improvement of environmental hygiene solutions and the adoption of evidence–based practices. Prior to joining Diversey in May 2022, Rebecca was the infection prevention & control program manager at Surgeons Choice Medical Center and Oakland Nursing Center in Southfield, Michigan. From 2013 to 2021, she was an Infection Preventionist at a large academic medical center in the heart of Detroit. Collectively, her experience encompasses acute care, skilled nursing, inpatient rehabilitation, behavioral health and ambulatory physician practices. Rebecca earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English & Spanish literature from Wayne State University in Detroit and a Master's of Public Health from Benedictine University in Lisle, Illinois. Rebecca achieved board certification in infection control (CIC®) in 2019 and became a fellow on APIC in 2022.
11:45 am - 1:15 pm	Lunch - Provided Exhibits Open
1:15 - 2:15 pm	Team Hygiene: Strategies to Tackle Healthcare Cleaning & Disinfection Rebecca Battjes, MPH, CIC, FAPIC Diversey This session is a detailed review of best practices in healthcare environmental hygiene. We will discuss the order of cleaning tasks, review new education materials from leading organizations and review common challenges in patient area cleaning.
2:15 - 2:45 pm	Break & Exhibits Open
2:45 - 3:30 pm	Escape Room/Audience Games
3:30 - 4:30 pm	Test Your PPE Knowledge - What to Use and When Debbie Hurst, RN, CHESP, CIC Hands-On Infection Control Consulting Services Eagle Point, OR We will review personal protective equipment (PPE) use when working in healthcare. This will include looking at Standard Precautions, Enhanced Barrier Precautions and more. There will be interactive activities during the session for participants to help identify "what's wrong with this picture".
4:30 - 5:00 pm	Coughs & Colds May Not Break Your Bones, But Staying Home Can Save A Life Nicole Droll, BSN, RN HAI/MDRO and Outbreak Lead ND Department of Health and Human Services This session will include information on why it’s important to stay home when sick, symptoms and diseases that require exclusions of work, and ways to reduce the spread of illness while on the job such as covering your cough, using PPE and transmission based precautions. While many respiratory illnesses (common colds) are mild in normally healthy individuals, these same coughs and colds can be detrimental to others. Do your part in keeping your patients, residents and coworkers healthy. Nicole Droll is a registered nurse who has been working with the North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services since April 2020 as Infection Prevention & Control Specialist, and most recently as the Multi-Drug Resistant Organism (MDRO) Outbreak Lead. Nicole has been a nurse for nine years with experience in long term care and pediatrics. Nicole’s work with HHS has been focused on infection prevention and control working alongside healthcare facilities to provide education and recommendations to help mitigate further transmission with all healthcare-associated infections. Most recently, Nicole has been completing in person Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) and outbreak assessments in skilled nursing, assisted living, basic care, outpatient facilities and critical access hospitals.
5:00 pm	Conference Wrap Up