Listen as our hosts speak with researcher JingJing Shang about increasing flu vaccination of home healthcare personnel using policies, easy access to vaccine, and incentives. Also, tune in to hear from infection preventionist Debra Runyan about what a decade-long study tells us about how fogging can help in efforts to reduce C. difficile.
Guests:
Jingjing Shang, PhD, RN, OCN, FAAN
Debra Runyan, BS, MT (ASCP), CIC
Articles and Authors:
Influenza Vaccination of Home Healthcare Staff and the Impact on Patient Hospitalizations
Authors:
Jingjing Shang, PhD, RN, OCN, FAAN
Jordan Harrison, PhD
Ashley M Chastain, DrPH, MPH
Patricia W Stone, PhD, RN, FAAN, CIC
Uduwanage Gayani E. Perera, PhD, MS
Elizabeth Madigan, PhD, RN, FAAN
Monika Pogorzelska-Maziarz, PhD, MPH, CIC
Andrew W Dick, PhD
Evaluation of an Aerosolized Hydrogen Peroxide Disinfection System for the Reduction of Clostridioides difficile Hospital Infection Rates Over a 10 Year Period https://www.ajicjournal.org/article/S0196-6553(21)00788-4/fulltext
Authors:
Christopher L. Truitt, PhD
Debra A. Runyan, MT(ASCP), CIC
John J. Stern, MD
Carolyn Tobin
Wesley Goldwater, MBA
Rodney Madsen, MBA, MPH
Jingjing Shang, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, OCN
Dr. Jingjing Shang is a professor and health services researcher at Columbia University School of Nursing. She received multiple federal grants to study infection prevention and control in the home healthcare setting which has helped to establish critical evidence and demonstrate that infection is a significant but understudied issue in home healthcare. Dr. Shang’s team conducted the first national survey of infection prevention and control in home healthcare and examined how agency policies were associated with infection outcomes using multiple longitudinal national data. She served in the American Cancer Society peer review committee for scholarships and has been a reviewer in CDC Special Emphasis Panel in infectious diseases since 2015.
Debra Runyan, BS, MT (ASCP), CIC
Debra Runyan was the Director of Infection Prevention at Pennsylvania Hospital in Philadelphia until her retirement in May 2020. Pennsylvania Hospital, a non-profit teaching 475 bed acute care institution, is part of the Penn Medicine health system. She now works per diem for the department. She has a Medical Technology Bachelor of Science degree from Nasson College and has been certified in Infection Prevention since 1995. She served as her local APIC chapter secretary from 2004- 2005 as well as the Membership Chair from 2006-2007. She also served on Medline’s Advisory Board from 2009-2010. In 2011 Debra received the APIC Hero of Infection Prevention designation for her work in the implementation of a securement device for peripheral IVs.
Debra and her team have also won several Penn Medicine Patient Safety Awards for their work in implementing strategies to reduce VAP rates and developing an environmental room monitoring program.
In 2015, she presented her team’s strategies in reducing C. difficile to the International Congress of Epidemiology and Public Health in Puebla, Mexico. APIC abstracts include Reduction of SSI in C. section population, Use of Alcohol Impregnated Caps to Reduce BSI and Infection Prevention & Environmental Services Working Together to Reduce C. difficile. In 2017 she did an oral presentation on the use of CHG clothes and Nasal Iodine to Reduce Orthopedic Surgical Site Infections at National APIC.