Webinar Overview
The VIPTC Blood Culture Stewardship webinar
provides an overview to blood culture stewardship and the 2024 U.S. blood
culture bottle shortage. Presented by Dr. Valeria Fabre,
Associate Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program and
Associate Hospital Epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins Health System, this webinar
covers the importance of blood culture stewardship, how to implement a blood
culture stewardship program, and the impact of blood culture stewardship
programs.
Target Audience
Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are or will be directly involved in infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals who have participated in and gained considerable knowledge through specialized infection and control training and have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control concepts.
Audience examples: Intermediate to Proficient Infection Preventionist, Intermediate to Proficient HAI/AR/IPC staff, Intermediate to Proficient Healthcare/Public Health Epidemiologist, Infectious Disease /Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Pharmacist.
Overall Learning Objectives
- Explain
the rationale and list the evidence-base for blood culture stewardship
- Describe
the importance of blood culture stewardship guidance in the context of the
recent national blood culture bottle shortages
- Describe
the impact of blood culture stewardship programs
- Describe
how to implement a blood culture stewardship program
Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education (CE) credit is not available for this webinar.
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