This course will review how COVID-19 spreads, signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and how to report illness.
These self-paced, scenario based modules are intended to provide administrative staff members with best practices for containing and preventing the spread of COVID-19 in nursing homes.
This video helps families understand the struggles, challenges, grief, and trauma associated with COVID-19 and why it is important that everyone do their part to prevent the spread.
This series of three learning modules focuses on identifying the signs and symptoms of COVID-19, knowing when and how to report signs and symptoms of COVID-19, and remembering to maintain infection prevention processes.
This video provides guidance on how to have conversations to increase vaccine confidence with nursing home staff.
This series of three learning modules features strategies to help nursing home teams recognize and manage stress, work together to tackle common challenges, and practice open communication. The modules are about 5 minutes long.
This video describes three actions to help leaders prepare for conversations that engage colleagues to identify what matters to them in their work.
This training is intended to prepare facilities to develop, manage, and maintain a surge plan.
This video provides a brief overview of Quality Assurance Performance Improvement for nursing homes.
This learning module offers ideas to help boost morale, build trust, create a positive work environment, and practice open communication.
Schwartz Center Chief Medical Officer Beth Lown, MD, joins Patricia Watson, PhD, of the National Center for PTSD, and Richard Westphal, PhD, RN, of the UVA School of Nursing, for a conversation about what healthcare leaders can do to support their teams during the COVID-19 crisis.
This infection prevention and control course for long-term care facilities consists of four training modules that address infection prevention and control measures to support long-term care facilities in the context of COVID-19.
This module provides an overview of infection prevention and control programs and how to implement an infection prevention and control program at your facility.
This module discusses recommended practices for reprocessing reusable resident care equipment.
This module describes the role that environmental surfaces play in pathogen transmission and recommended practices for cleaning and disinfecting environmental surfaces.
This module discusses the importance of a water management program in the prevention of the transmission of waterborne pathogens.
This module discusses recommended practices for linen management. At the conclusion of the module, participants will understand how linens may transmit pathogens, and will be able to describe recommended practices for linen management.
This module discusses strategies to diagnose, prevent, and control serious lower respiratory tract infections in nursing homes.
This module discusses occupational health considerations for the infection prevention and control program. At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to describe occupational health considerations for the infection prevention and control program, including prevention and management of infectious occupational exposures and staff illness.
This module discusses the importance of antibiotic stewardship and identifies strategies to implement antibiotic stewardship activities in nursing homes.
This module discusses infection prevention and antibiotic stewardship considerations during transitions of care. At the conclusion of this module, participants will be able to: 1. describe the importance of communication during care transitions; 2. define the characteristics of an ideal care transition; and 3. identify key infection risk and antibiotic use information that should be communicated during care transitions.
This module describes the role of an infection preventionist, who serves as the lead of a infection prevention and control program.
This module describes how infection prevention and control program activities can be integrated into an existing Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement program.
This module describe how to implement a system for infection surveillance to identify infections and prevent the spread of pathogens among residents, staff and visitors in a nursing home facility.
This module provides an overview of outbreak investigation and control in nursing homes and will define the steps and activities involved in an outbreak investigation.