As I hope you’ve gleaned by now, I love education. Whether it’s speaking at conferences or
sitting in sessions at conferences (as I am now), I can never get enough - and
I know that I’m not alone. Today I’m
sitting through 3 sessions on Biosecurity and Infection Control at the American
Animal Hospital Association. It’s
amazing the difference in thought between human and animal health when it comes
to the use of disinfectants. The opening
ceremonies had several speakers using the portable mics that go over their ears
– you know the ones that are close to the mouth. The only thing I could think of was whether
or not they were disinfected between
speakers. As I learned from a couple of
veterinarians who dropped by the booth after I tweeted the picture and
question, the thought never crossed their mind.
As I do each quarter, I wanted to share the Webber Training Teleclasses coming up for the next three months. As noted in past blogs, the Teleclass
Education by Webber
Training is an international lecture series on topics related to infection
prevention and control. The objective is to bring the best possible education to
the widest possible audience with the fewest possible barriers when trying to
access it. Here's the list of teleclasses for the second quarter of 2017.
| Date
|
Title of Teleclass
|
Speaker
|
April 6th
|
Technologic
Innovations to Prevent Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections
|
Prof. Mark Rupp, USA
|
April 12th
|
Practical
Steps to Develop and Sustain an Effective National Hand Hygiene Programme and
its Impact on Antimicrobial Resistance
|
Prof.
Lindsay Grayson, Australia
|
April 25th
|
Do’s and Dont’s for
Hospital Cleaning
|
Dr. Stephanie Dancer,
Scotland
|
| April 27th
|
Cost
Analysis of Universal Screening vs. Risk Factor-Based Screening for MRSA
|
Dr.
Virginia Roth, Canada
|
| May 5th
|
Special Lecture for
5 May
|
Prof. Didier Pittet,
Switzerland
|
| May 18th
|
The
Airborne Spread of Infectious Agents: Survival and Decontamination of Human
Pathogens in Indoor Air
|
Prof.
Syed Sattar, Canada
|
| May 30th
|
The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly Methods for Bedpan Management
|
Gertie van
Knippenberg-Gordebeke, The Netherlands
|
| June 1st
|
Using
Unofficial Sources to Monitor Outbreaks of Emerging Infectious Diseases:
Lessons from ProMED
|
Prof.
Lawrence Madoff, USA
|
| June 7th
|
The Impact of
Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection
|
Prof. Brett
Mitchell, Australia
|
| June 8th
|
Establishing
a National IPC Program on a Shoe String Budget
|
Prof.
Shaheen Mehtar, Africa
|
| June 20th
|
Making Sense of
Alphabet Soup
|
Dr. Andrew Simor,
Canada
|
For more
information on Webber Training, including a full list of the upcoming Infection
Prevention and Control Teleclasses, please visit www.webbertraining.com. If
you’re a Twitter follower you can also be part of the conversation during the
sessions by following #WebberTraining.
I hope many of you will take the opportunity to listen to
these teleclasses and share them with your colleagues!
Bugging Off!
Nicole
