“Making Sense of Respiratory Infections: Is It COVID-19 or Something Else?”
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O & M* presents…“Making Sense of Respiratory Infections: Is It COVID-19 or Something Else?”
The COVID-19 Pandemic has created many challenges for both healthcare and community settings. As we continue to fight the COVID-19 Pandemic and enter the annual respiratory infection season, healthcare professionals must maintain a high state of awareness of infection prevention and control. During this webinar program, the appropriate uses of PPE, patient and healthcare personnel screening, and maintaining a clean and sanitary environment will be addressed. Preparedness and early recognition of infectious respiratory diseases are critical elements of ensuring future pandemic preparedness.
Learning Objectives | At the end of the session, participants should be able to:
- Review the various clinical presentations of respiratory infectious diseases including COVID-19, influenza and colds
- Discuss the adaptations with the use of PPE that must be made during respiratory infection season
- Review core elements of pandemic preparedness to ensure diagnostic, operational and therapeutic readiness for future infectious disease threats
Presenter:
Dr. Hudson Garrett, Jr., Ph.D., MSN, MPH, FNP-BC, IP-BC, CPPS, CFER, FNAP | President & CEO | Community Health Associates, LLC
This program is funded by Owens & Minor, Inc.
Target Audience: Nurses and other healthcare professionals
Continuing Education: 1.5 contact hours for RNs. Terri Goodman & Associates is an approved provider of nursing continuing professional development by by the New Mexico Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Certificate of Completion available to all participants.
Questions should be directed to Owens & Minor: contactrequest@owens-minor.com; (804) 723-7000
* NOTE: This is a contracted supplier-sponsored webinar. HealthTrust has not approved and/or endorsed the content. This program may contain the mention of products, services, drugs or brands presented in a case study or comparative format. Such examples are intended for educational and informational purposes and should not be perceived as an endorsement of any particular supplier, product, service, drug, brand or approach.
