Employee Health: the Program and Recommended Vaccinations
Surveyors are taking notice of employee records and giving citations for gaps. Employee health remains one of the most challenging and confusing areas to manage in an ASC. Most are familiar with OSHA 29 CFR 1910 regarding blood borne pathogens, but is there more? What do the laws require? Is it a state or federal law? Whose responsibility is it to maintain the records? What vaccines do the employees need? Why is it important to know the employee immunity status? Why is the pre-employment health history important? Find out the answers to these questions in our next webinar.
Employee Health: the Program and Recommended Vaccinations
Presented by: Robin Novak, RN, CIC - Director of Infection Prevention - Excellentia Advisory Group
Registered Nurse, Certified Infection Preventionist dedicated to disease prevention and high quality healthcare. Strong decision maker who understands the importance of patient, visitor and staff safety following evidence based best practices.
Driven and compassionate healthcare professional with 30 years hands-on experience in fast-paced ambulatory surgery center and hospital environments. Accountable and responsible with an additional focus on Quality Assurance Process Improvement.
Robin has served as the SGNA Carolina Chapter President, involved in SGNA Practice Committee as well as a Regional Committee member for the past several years. Robin is a current member of Palmetto APIC as well as the national APIC. Robin has been employed at the Ambulatory Surgery Center of Spartanburg since 2004 and held roles of Endoscopy Nurse, Endoscopy Charge Nurse and currently the Quality Assurance Process Improvement Coordinator. Robin is currently employed as the Director of Infection Prevention for Excellentia Advisory Group.
DESCRIPTION:
Surveyors are taking notice of employee records and giving citations for gaps. Employee health remains one of the most challenging and confusing areas to manage in an ASC. Most are familiar with OSHA 29 CFR 1910 regarding blood borne pathogens, but is there more? What do the laws require? Is it a state or federal law? Whose responsibility is it to maintain the records? What vaccines do the employees need? Why is it important to know the employee immunity status? Why is the pre-employment health history important? Find out the answers to these questions in our next webinar.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES:
The learner will be able to:
- Describe components of an employee health program
- Discuss CDC recommended vaccinations for employee
Additional Handouts pertinent to this webinar:
- Note-taking version of the PowerPoint presentation
- Employee Immunization Tracking Tool
- TB Risk Assessment Tool
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1Once you and any/all staff have reviewed this presentation, you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation worth 1.0 Credit Hour of continuing education. You simply contact us at events@excellentiagroup.com requesting your certificates, using the Certificate Request Form found in the link below. You will need to provide a typed list of all participants first and last names, position title (RN ,BSN, etc.), license numbers (if professionals) and date of completion.
* Excellentia Advisory Group LLC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP 15481: Issue Date: 4/6/2010;
