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2023 ND Infection Prevention Conference
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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

 

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