2022 South Dakota Infection Control Conference

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8:00am - 9:00am Lisa Brouwer is a speaker, Courage Coach, and Certified Dare to Lead Facilitator under the teaching of Brene Brown. Through public workshops, corporate development programs, womens retreats, and one-on-one coaching, she guides people to live at the intersection of daring leadership and courageous living. From leaving a corporate position after twenty years, to launching her own company, to riding a motorcycle from NYC to San Francisco, to refusing to hustle for her worth, Lisa is living proof of what happens when you say, "Heck yes!" to being brave with your life. It's her life's work to challenge you to believe and pursue what's possible when you live and lead with courage.	Powered by Connection Lisa Brouwer Full Throttle Living Sioux Falls, SD We are hardwired for connection. It's in our DNA. It's our built-in survival mechanism. For many of us, living in the long shadow of the pandemic has us feeling burned out, checked out, and lonely...all fueled by the threat of disconnection. In this session Lisa will invite you into this year's conference theme of "We're All Connected" in a hands-on way. You'll explore three points of connection that will lead to more fulfillment and meaning in your work, build a sense of belonging from being in community, and inspire you to take action to live a whole, aligned life.
9:00 - 10:00am 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.	What's Hot and What's Not in the World of the Infection Preventionist Debbie Hurst, RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC "Hands-On" IC Consultative Services, LLC Eagle Point, OR This is an interactive presentation that includes sharing about best practices, evidence based practices, and things no longer considered so! We will take into consideration the changes we have experienced related to Covid-19 and more. This session will also include the sharing of highlights of the information shared from several of the APIC 2022 Conference presentations.
10:00 - 10:30am	Break
10:30 - 11:30am Marc-Oliver Wright, MT (ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC is the clinical science liaison for the central region at PDI, Inc. He has an extensive work history in infection prevention including as an infection preventionist at the University of Wisconsin University Hospital in Madison, Wisconsin and corporate director of infection control and quality improvement for NorthShore University HealthSystem in Evanston, Illinois. His educational background includes a bachelors of sciences in clinical laboratory sciences, a master’s of science in epidemiology and advanced training in public health informatics. He is a board certified in infection prevention and is a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) served as an officer and member of the board of directors for APIC. He has authored several book chapters, including in APIC’s “Surveillance Programs for Healthcare Settings” and SHEA’s “Practical Healthcare Epidemiology”. He has over 60 publications in the American Journal of Infection Control, Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Emerging Infectious Diseases, among others and served as an editorial board member and section editor for the American Journal of Infection Control from 2009-2019.	Communicating Complex Data: Creating Understanding Through Visualization Marc-Oliver Wright, MT(ASCP), MS, CIC, FAPIC PDI Healthcare Inc Woodcliff Lake, NJ Effective communication of complex information or data is an essential skill for any infection preventionist (IP). This communication takes many forms-in speech, written and the visual display of quantitative information. Tailoring one’s style of communication is both an art and a science and requires accurately assessing the audience’s baseline knowledge and delivering the information at their level. Sometimes, an Excel® bar or line chart is simply not sufficient, comprehensive, nor interpretable. The use of abstract images and graphics to convey data in a manner that translates to understanding across an audience of diverse educational and socio-economic backgrounds can be an excellent but underappreciated skillset and is not hardwired into traditional healthcare training programs or most infection prevention competency models. This session is designed to be audience interactive, highly visual and will outline the importance in developing this skillset and provide examples of conveying data through different representations. It will review the principles of effective design as originally described by Edward Tufte and illustrate how these principles can be best deployed using examples from traditional infection prevention related process and outcome metrics.
11:30am - 12:00pm	Vendor Spotlight
12:00 - 1:00pm	Lunch/Vendors Open
1:00 - 2:00pm Nick has been with Avera since 2012 and currently serves as the Director of Nursing at Avera Prince of Peace in Sioux Falls. Prior to being at Prince of Peace, Nick was the Infection Prevention RN Specialist with Avera Health where he consulted with Avera's LTC facilities on Infection Prevention. He has extensive experience in Long Term Care leadership that includes infection prevention, survey readiness, and quality assurance/performance improvement. Nick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Biology from Augustana College, a Bachelor of Science degree in Nursing from the University of Sioux Falls and is a Quality Certified Professional through AAPACN. He holds his CIC and recently gained the LTC-CIP designation.	Putting it all Together: Laying the Groundwork for a Strong LTC IP Program Nick Thompson, BSN, CIC, LTC-CIP Avera Prince of Peace Sioux Falls, SD This session will provide the framework for a strong IP program in the LTC setting. Given the recently released CMS guidance to surveyors it is important to create a program that both meets the regulations but is also effective in preventing infections. This session will also highlight some differences between LTC and Acute IP Programs.
2:00 - 3:00pm Kelly Thomson grew up on a dairy farm in North Central SD (Bowdle). He joined the US Navy, went through the Navy’s Nuclear Engineering program, and was stationed on a Fast Attack Submarine (USS Salt Lake City). He went to South Dakota State University and Monument Health’s Clinical Laboratory Scientist internship.Kelly worked for UBS (Vitalant) for about 3 years as a reference blood banker and with Black hills pediatrics and neonatology as a generalist. He began his career with the USPHS (IHS) in February 1998 at Sioux San Hospital as the blood bank supervisor and Point of Care coordinator. He grew from there and took on many rolls from generalist, lab manager, executive committee, interim CEO, and into his current position as the Great Plains Area laboratory consultant.	Taking the Mystery Out of the Lab Result Kelly Thomas, BS CLS Great Plains Area IHS Rapid City, SD This session will discuss taking the mystery out of the lab result. The speaker will discuss how laboratorians arrive at the results they get and how they know they are correct.
3:00 - 3:30pm	Break/Vendors Open
3:30 - 4:30pm 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.	Let Your IC Educational Program Out of the Box! Debbie Hurst, RN, BSN, CIC, FAPIC "Hands-On" IC Consultative Services, LLC Eagle Point, OR This session will discuss creative "out of the box thinking" concepts related to based infection control principles for attendees. Included will be the sharing of creative ideas being used by other IPs around the country that attendees will find interesting and thought provoking as they look at ways to enhance their current educational programs.

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8:00 - 9:00am Ashley Klatt is a registered nurse with the South Dakota Department of Health. She is a Disease Intervention Specialist and the TB Nurse Consultant for the TB Program within the Office of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion. Ashley has worked for the Department of Health for 12 years. As the TB Nurse Consultant, she provides technical expertise, oversight, and consultation for LTBI and Active TB cases across the state. She is the Educational and Training Network focal point for SD, a member of the Heartland TB Advisory Committee and member of the National TB Nurse coalition. Ashley resides in Watertown, SD with her husband and 4 children. In her free time, she enjoys golfing with her family.	Latent TB Infection and TB Disease Ashley Klatt, RN SD Department of Health Watertown, SD This session will discuss the difference between LTBI and Active TB disease and the different treatment regimens available for patients. Learn who is reportable to the Department of Health and how case management services are provided.
9:00 - 10:00am Since joining ECRI in August 2015, Dr. Sivek has worked on topics relevant to the field of infection prevention and control, including the completion of laboratory evaluations of disinfection caps for needlefree intravenous connectors, ultraviolet mobile device disinfection boxes, hand hygiene compliance monitoring systems, and hand hygiene observation apps. Dr. Sivek completed her PhD in Bioengineering in 2015; she is currently pursuing Associate – Infection Prevention and Control (a-IPC) certification. Dr. Sivek is an expert in in vitro and in vivo use of ventricular-assist devices (VADs); hemodynamics; and flow- induced blood damage including thrombosis, hemolysis and sub-lethal red blood cell damage. Mr. Davis has nursing experience spanning long-term care, adult critical care, clinical decision support, education, nurse management, and infection prevention. Mr. Davis is board-certified in infection control and epidemiology (CIC) and is a certified healthcare environmental manager (HEM) and holds national certification in adult critical care nursing (CCRN). He has authored multiple infection prevention and control articles and is published in several peer reviewed journals.	Safe Implementation of Makeshift Airborne Isolation Environmental Controls James Davis, MSN RN CCRN-K HEM CIC FAPIC ECRI Plymouth Meeting, PA Amanda Sivek, PhD ECRI Plymouth Meeting, PA The speakers will describe the technology and methods needed to implement Safe Implementation of Makeshift Airborne Isolation Environmental Controls.
10:00 - 10:30am	Break/Vendors Open
10:30 - 11:00am With over 30 years in healthcare, Cheri works for the South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care. She is currently collaborating with the SD Department of Health on providing infection control guidance related to healthcare associated infections and performing facility Infection Control Risk Assessments. She has worked with facilities, healthcare providers, community leaders and patients on multiple healthcare initiatives, including leading SD Project Firstline. She recently obtained her certification in Infection Control and is anxious to work with facilities and frontline healthcare workers on infection prevention measures. She has also received certification in case management and wound care. She played a pivotal role in the development of a national Home Health Infection Prevention Toolkit and was selected to serve as a technical reviewer for the national organization. She has taught numerous diabetes education classes and is currently a Master Trainer for Better Choices, Better Health in Diabetes, Chronic Disease Management, and Pain. Cheri has worked as a Quality Risk Manager and Infection Control Nurse and also completed the AgriSafe Nurse Scholar class in 2019 and was selected to serve as South Dakota’s Total Farmer Health Coach, which promotes health and wellness to SD agriculture producers.	Infection Prevention Resources in South Dakota Cheri Fast, BSN SD Foundation for Medical Care Sioux Falls, SD This session will discuss infection prevention resources in South Dakota including a proactive approach to infection control and prevention and SD Project Firstline.
11:00am - 12:00pm Josh is a clinical services pharmacist and pharmacy consultant for The Medicine Shoppe in Rapid City. He serves as Network Director for the South Dakota Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services Network (CPESN SD) and has united community pharmacies across SD to increase quality, offer enhanced services that benefit patients, and improve healthcare in SD. Josh has formed partnerships with South Dakota Department of Health, South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care (SDFMC), and South Dakota State University College of Pharmacy. He is also involved in several projects to reduce cardiovascular disease risk in South Dakota and serves as an Antibiotic Stewardship Lead for the SDFMC.	Antibiotic Stewardship Update Joshua Ohrtman, PharmD SD Foundation for Medical Care Rapid City, SD This session will detail the importance of Stewardship Core Elements in South Dakota.

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Session

8:00 - 9:00am

Ashley Klatt is a registered nurse with
the South Dakota Department of Health.
She is a Disease Intervention Specialist
and the TB Nurse Consultant for the
TB Program within the Office of Disease
Prevention and Health Promotion. Ashley
has worked for the Department of Health
for 12 years. As the TB Nurse Consultant,
she provides technical expertise,
oversight, and consultation for LTBI and
Active TB cases across the state. She is
the Educational and Training Network focal
point for SD, a member of the Heartland TB
Advisory Committee and member of the
National TB Nurse coalition. Ashley resides in
Watertown, SD with her husband and 4
children. In her free time, she enjoys golfing
with her family.

Latent TB Infection and TB Disease

Ashley Klatt, RN
SD Department of Health
Watertown, SD

This session will discuss the difference between LTBI and Active TB disease and the different treatment regimens available for patients. Learn who is reportable to the Department of Health and how case management services are provided.

9:00 - 10:00am

Since joining ECRI in August 2015,
Dr. Sivek has worked on topics relevant
to the field of infection prevention and
control, including the completion of
laboratory evaluations of disinfection
caps for needlefree intravenous
connectors, ultraviolet mobile device
disinfection boxes, hand hygiene
compliance monitoring systems, and
hand hygiene observation apps. Dr. Sivek
completed her PhD in Bioengineering
in 2015; she is currently pursuing
Associate – Infection Prevention and
Control (a-IPC) certification. Dr. Sivek
is an expert in in vitro and in vivo
use of ventricular-assist devices
(VADs); hemodynamics; and flow-
induced blood damage including
thrombosis, hemolysis and sub-lethal
red blood cell damage.

Mr. Davis has nursing experience
spanning long-term care, adult
critical care, clinical decision support,
education, nurse management, and
infection prevention. Mr. Davis is
board-certified in infection
control and epidemiology (CIC) and
is a certified healthcare environmental
manager (HEM) and holds national
certification in adult critical care
nursing (CCRN). He has authored
multiple infection prevention and
control articles and is published in
several peer reviewed journals.

Safe Implementation of Makeshift
Airborne Isolation Environmental Controls

James Davis, MSN RN CCRN-K HEM CIC FAPIC
ECRI
Plymouth Meeting, PA

Amanda Sivek, PhD
ECRI
Plymouth Meeting, PA

The speakers will describe the technology and methods needed to implement Safe Implementation of Makeshift Airborne Isolation Environmental Controls.

10:00 - 10:30am

Break/Vendors Open

10:30 - 11:00am

Cheri Fast photo

With over 30 years in healthcare, Cheri

works for the South Dakota Foundation for

Medical Care. She is currently collaborating

with the SD Department of Health on

providing infection control guidance related

to healthcare associated infections and

performing facility Infection Control Risk

Assessments. She has worked with facilities,

healthcare providers, community leaders and

patients on multiple healthcare initiatives,

including leading SD Project Firstline. She

recently obtained her certification in Infection

Control and is anxious to work with facilities

and frontline healthcare workers on

infection prevention measures. She has also

received certification in case management

and wound care. She played a pivotal role in

the development of a national Home Health Infection Prevention Toolkit and was selected to serve as a technical reviewer for the national organization. She has taught numerous diabetes education classes and is currently a

Master Trainer for Better Choices, Better

Health in Diabetes, Chronic Disease

Management, and Pain. Cheri has worked as

a Quality Risk Manager and Infection Control

Nurse and also completed the AgriSafe Nurse

Scholar class in 2019 and was selected to serve

as South Dakota’s Total Farmer Health Coach,

which promotes health and wellness to

SD agriculture producers.

Infection Prevention
Resources in South Dakota

Cheri Fast, BSN
SD Foundation for Medical Care
Sioux Falls, SD

This session will discuss infection prevention resources in South Dakota including a proactive approach to infection control and prevention and SD Project Firstline.

11:00am - 12:00pm

Josh is a clinical services pharmacist and

pharmacy consultant for The Medicine

Shoppe in Rapid City. He serves as

Network Director for the South Dakota

Community Pharmacy Enhanced Services

Network (CPESN SD) and has united

community pharmacies across SD to increase

quality, offer enhanced services that benefit

patients, and improve healthcare in SD.

Josh has formed partnerships with South

Dakota Department of Health, South Dakota

Foundation for Medical Care (SDFMC),

and South Dakota State University College

of Pharmacy. He is also involved in several

projects to reduce cardiovascular disease

risk in South Dakota and serves as an

Antibiotic Stewardship Lead for the SDFMC.

Antibiotic Stewardship Update

Joshua Ohrtman, PharmD
SD Foundation for Medical Care
Rapid City, SD

This session will detail the importance of Stewardship Core Elements in South Dakota.

Schedule

October 6, 2022 (All Times Mountain Time Zone)(Open this section)

October 7, 2022 (All Times Mountain Time Zone)(Open this section)