Infection Prevention and Control in Long-Term Care: The Future is Now

Learning Objectives:

• Implement best practices in the critical areas of need, from food and nutritional services to water management to enhance patient safety, survey readiness, quality control, and risk assessment.
• Identify and be able to respond to emerging pathogens and other issues of concern in LTC
• Use data effectively to drive your programs
• Perform cleaning and disinfection of the patient’s environment and proper handling of laundry to minimize transmission of pathogens
• Utilize antibiotic stewardship to reduce antibiotic resistance and adverse events while monitoring for sepsis development