Environment of Care, Construction and Remediation

30/30 Education Session - 30 minutes

1306 - Construction and Infection Prevention: Using the Tools to Your Advantage

Primary Speaker(s)

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  Leon Young, B.S. MT, ASCP

  Improvement Specialist, Infection Prevention/Construction
  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Corporate Services
  Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

  Nothing to disclose

Moderator(s)

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  Dana Piatek, MSN, RN, CIC

  Manager, Infection Prevention
  UPMC Horizon and UPMC Jameson
  New Castle, Pennsylvania

  Nothing to disclose

As hospitals and LTC facilities age or seek ways to improve their patient care capabilities, there is often an increase in construction and maintenance activities. During these projects, the IP must remain focused on patience safety and the Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA).

This session will cover policies and procedures that are essential to assuring patient safety during construction and maintenance activities. Procedures to be discussed will include everything from completing an ICRA permit to how to conduct project rounding to determining when to allow the removal of ICRA containment.

This session will also cover the use of specific tools that will benefit the IP during a construction project, including a construction monitoring tool, particle counters, handheld differential manometers, digital pressure manometer, and an aerosol dust monitor. Discussions will revolve around how all four of these instruments can be used to enhance construction project rounding and monitoring.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe how to plan and implement construction containment based on the Infection Control Risk Assessment (ICRA) and ICRA permit.
• Conduct construction project rounding with the confidence and education needed to solve problems.
• Demonstrate how to properly use a handheld particle counter, differential manometer, digital pressure monitor and aerosol dust monitor. List the benefits and advantages of using monitoring tools for construction rounding.