HIDA Training: National Health Care Safety Network (NHSN) Help!

Program Objectives:

At the conclusion of the program, the participant will be able to:

• Identify hospital expectations related to the South Carolina Hospital Infections Disclosure Act (HIDA).
• Discuss the NHSN protocols and definitions for central-line associated bloodstream infection (CLABSI) and Surgical Site Infection (SSI) surveillance.
• Describe several utilizations of the NHSN analysis package.
• Discuss methods of communicating with leadership and physicians about SC public reporting and NHSN surveillance.

Featured Speaker:

JONATHAN R. EDWARDS, MS has served his entire professional career performing statistical research and information systems development in the area of healthcare safety performance measurement at CDC. He has provided major contributions to the National Nosocomial Infection Surveillance (NNIS) system for over 18 years. Currently, he supports the design and development of the webbased successor to NNIS called the National Healthcare Safety Network. He is the lead statistician for both the NHSN as well as CDC’s Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion. He has served on CDC’s Statistical Advisory Board and is an adjunct faculty member in the Department of Epidemiology at Emory University’s Rollins School of Public Health.

For nearly two decades, Mr. Edwards has advanced and supported the field of healthcare epidemiology through (1) statistical consultation to internal medical epidemiologists and external hospital epidemiologists performing statistical analyses from an array of study designs including those based on outbreak investigations; (2) teaching statistical methods to epidemiologists, microbiologists and infection control professionals both nationally and internationally; (3) the development of statistical methods for analyzing healthcare associated infection data and performing risk adjustment; and (4) the authoring of manuscripts, in addition to, oral presentations on comparisons and trending of healthcare associated infection and antimicrobial resistance rates.

Videos:

Protocols and Definitions
Device-associated Module -
Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infections
with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC

NHSN Data Entry Processes and Quality Assurance
with Amber Taylor, MPH

NHSN Analysis Function: How Do I use It?
with Jonathan Edwards, MS

Conference Call
with Mary Andrus, RN, BA, CIC

NHSN SSI Definition and Protocol
with Pam Fogle, MSN, RN, CIC

HIDA: Infection Prevention Process Survey Results
with Dixie Roberts, MPH, APRN and Stanley Ostrawski, RN, MS, MT (ASCP)

Communicating With Leaders and Physicians About NHSN Surveillance and SC Public Reporting
with Rick Foster, MD

SC DHEC Validation Process for Public Reporting of Infection Rates
with Stanley Ostrawski, RN, MS, MT (ASCP)