Infection Prevention Spotlight
Podcast
hosted by
Kara Mullane
Infection Preventionist
RN, MSN, CIC
This podcast can help!
I know how hard it can be to find time to keep up, be heard, and connect -- so let me help.
Join me here each week as we explore today's most pressing infection-prevention challenges and meet the amazing practitioners, researchers, and industry leaders working to solve them.
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You're not alone out there! Meet me here each week and we'll support each other on our way to better health outcomes for everyone.
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~ Kara
Episode 30
November 3, 2020
The Research Behind Infection Prevention:
Do Care Bundles Really Stop SSIs?
Today is all about surgical site infection prevention bundles! We bring you two important AJIC summaries from the Nov 2020 issue and then Dr. Mohamed Yassin and I share our thoughts and experiences with bundle implementation and effectiveness.
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This episode brought to by the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) and Infection Prevention Spotlight.
Episode 29
October 8, 2020
The Research Behind Infection Prevention:
Cost of Prevention vs. Infection — And The Winner Is?
Meet physician & Infection Preventionist Dr. Mohamed Yassin & hear his key summaries from the October 2020 American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC): cost of nfection vs. prevention and then aerosol-disinfection of bacterial spores.
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This episode brought to by the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) and Infection Prevention Spotlight.
Episode 28
September 3, 2020
The Research Behind Infection Prevention:
Meet AJIC's new Editor-in-Chief and then hear about two important new C. diff. prevention articles in this month's AJIC.
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This episode brought to you by the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) and Infection Prevention Spotlight.
Episode 27
August 3, 2020
The Research Behind Infection Prevention:
Safer N95 usage by healthcare workers was achieved with "Reflective Practice Intervention" respiratory protection training -- find out how!
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This episode brought to you by the American Journal of Infection Control (AJIC) and Infection Prevention Spotlight.
Episode 13
January 23, 2018
Kara Reads the Abstract!
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[Dec 2017, Vol 45, No 12] A national collaborative approach to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in nursing homes: A qualitative assessment; Successful strategy to decrease indwelling catheter utilization rates in an academic medical intensive care unit.
Episode 13
January 23, 2018
Kara Reads the Abstract!
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[Dec 2017, Vol 45, No 12] A national collaborative approach to reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infections in nursing homes: A qualitative assessment; Successful strategy to decrease indwelling catheter utilization rates in an academic medical intensive care unit.
Episode 11
November 17, 2017
Kara Reads the Abstract!
[Oct 2017, Vol 45, No 10] Prospective clinical trial to assess peripheral venous catheter-related phlebitis using needleless connectors in a surgery department; Outbreak of imipenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in different wards at a regional hospital related to untrained bedside caregivers.
