Tracking Surgical Site Infections-How, What and When

Video Training

Category: Infection Prevention

Title: Tracking Surgical Site Infections - How, What and When

Presenter: Susan Soetaert, RN, BSN, CIC, Infection Preventionist

Susan has over 20 years of experience in infection prevention and control. She has been certified in infection prevention since 1991 and was the director of  infection prevention and employee health for a large healthcare system in Missouri for many years. In this role, she developed insight and skills for applying infection prevention in all types of settings from acute care hospital to out-patient ambulatory.  Susan also has experience in teaching infection prevention and has recently begun a new career path as an infection prevention consultant. She is particularly interested in the development of effective infection prevention programs in settings with limited resources such as ambulatory and other stand-alone facilities. Susan is married and currently lives in Springfield, MO.

Description: Susan Soetaert, RN, BSN, CIC will teach you in this one hour presentation about tracking surgical site infections. Susan presented at our 2011 Infection Prevention Strategies for ASCs conference in St. Louis, MO.

The learning OBJECTIVES of Susan's seminar presentation are:

* Describe surveillance methods

* Define Surgical Site Infections (SSI)

* Provide basic data analysis

* Introduce risk stratification

This is a pre-recorded infection prevention conference presentation.

Cost:   $139.00; unlimited viewing for 90-days exclusive to your surgery center.

You may offer this training to all your staff at your single site location but your username & password cannot be shared or passed on to others at different locations.

Once you and any/all staff that have reviewed this webinar, you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Participation worth one Contact Hour ¹ of continuing education. You simply contact us at events@excellentiagroup.com requesting your certificates. You will need to provide a typed list of all participants first and last name, position title, and license numbers (if professionals).