Infection Control for Audiology: Building the 2023 Infection Control Plan For Your Clinic
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Thursday, January 19, 2023 | 12:00 PM EST
An annual Infection Control Plan for audiology is a document that outlines the measures that an audiology clinic, multi-specialty medical practice and hospital & academic facilities will take to prevent the spread of infections among patients and staff. This plan should be reviewed and updated regularly, at least annually, to ensure that it reflects the current guidelines and best practices for infection control in the field of audiology. This course will focus on how to identify and create work practice controls requirements of the writing infection control plan.
Speaker: A.U. Bankaitis, PhD
Dr. A.U. Bankaitis is the leading expert on infection control in the hearing industry. She earned her PhD from the University of Cincinnati in 1995 where her research publications on HIV and the auditory system led to a niche expertise in infection control. Since joining Oaktree Products as Vice President in 2004, she is a recognized resource to the hearing industry. Her extensive clinical and business experiences allow her to provide straightforward, practical solutions to providers and business owners. If you have had questions about infection control, you probably have reached out to or been referred to Dr. Bankaitis.
Participants will be able to:
- Explain the role of work practice controls within the audiology ancillary
- Describe the process of identifying necessary work practice controls to integrate within the writing infection control plan
- Create a work practice control for audiology
1-hour AMA Category 1 Credit (LIVE session only)
1-hour Audiology CEU (AAA) (LIVE session only)
Disclosure: The faculty speaker and planners for this activity do not have any relationships with ineligible companies to disclose.
The Network of Medical Audiology Professionals is approved by the American Academy of Audiology to offer Academy CEUs for this activity. The program is worth a maximum of 0.1 CEUs. Academy approval of this continuing education activity is based on course content only and does not imply endorsement of course content, specific products, or clinical procedure, or adherence of the event to the Academy’s Code of Ethics. Any views that are presented are those of the presenter/CE Provider and not necessarily of the American Academy of Audiology.
