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Date: Thursday, October 24, 2019 In the United States, nursing homes provide complex medical care to residents at high risk of acquiring multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs). Through outbreak responses to novel or targeted MDROs, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and public health partners have found that gaps in infection prevention practices, such as inadequate use of gowns and gloves, contribute to the spread of MDROs. In nursing homes, it can be challenging to implement the contact isolation precautions used in hospitals when caring for patients with MDROs. CDC recently introduced a new approach called Enhanced Barrier Precautions to help address these challenges. Enhanced Barrier Precautions are recommended for preventing the transmission of novel or targeted MDROs in nursing homes involved in a public health containment response. Enhanced Barrier Precautions fall between Standard and Contact Precautions, and require gown and glove use for certain residents during specific high-contact resident care activities that have been found to increase the risk for MDRO transmission. If you are unable to attend this live COCA Call, it will be available on-demand a few days after the call. |
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Recent COCA Calls |
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Thursday, October 17, 2019 During this COCA Call, clinicians learned about updates to prior interim recommendations for U.S. health care providers caring for patients with suspected or known lung injury associated with e-cigarette or vaping products as published in MMWR on October 11, 2019.
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Thursday, September 26, 2019 |
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On-Demand COCA Calls |
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Training and Conference Opportunities
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New CDC Opioid Training for Nurses: Earn Free CE
All trainings in the series feature recommendations from CDC’s Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain, offer free continuing education, and are available on the Training for Providers webpage. |
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Start Your Health Literacy Training Here Training in health literacy, plain language, and culture and communication is essential for anyone working in health information and services. Whether you are new to these topics, need a refresher, or want to train your entire staff, CDC offers seven online health literacy courses for health professionals. CDC recommends that you take the introductory course "Health Literacy for Public Health Professionals" first and "Writing for the Public" second. The other courses can be taken in any order, depending on your interests. Free CE is offered for some of these courses.
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COCA Partner Trainings |
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Public Health Grand Rounds is a monthly webcast created to foster discussion about major public health issues. The Grand Rounds sessions highlight how CDC and its partners are already addressing these challenges and discuss recommendations for future research and practice. The October session of Grand Rounds, “Addressing Gaps in Health Care for Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities,” highlights efforts to improve health outcomes for people with intellectual disability, and how data can be a useful tool to help communities and healthcare professionals reach this goal. Tim Shriver, PhD, chairman of the International Board of Directors for Special Olympics, speaks to the benefits of athleticism and competition for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. This session is available for CE. Register here using the course information. Visit Grand Rounds On-Demand to browse upcoming and previous presentations. |
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Strong relationships with your patients can help reduce harms of opioids. Learn to enhance collaboration with Fostering Collaborative Patient-Provider Relationships. |
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Emergency Preparedness and Response Training Resources
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Learn about emergency preparedness and response training resources that CDC, other federal agencies, and COCA partners offer, including scheduled and on-demand courses. Be sure to view these valuable resources.
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COCA Partner Spotlight |
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COCA is pleased to feature The Society for Public Health Education (SOPHE) as our October COCA Partner Spotlight! SOPHE's mission is to provide global leadership to the profession of health education and health promotion and to promote the health of society. SOPHE strives to build knowledge and skills to help health educators respond to public health emergencies. They also work to increase capacity among SOPHE chapters to work with local communities in reducing racial and ethnic health disparities and improve advocacy efforts by educating policy makers and providing training and resources to help public health workers improve advocacy skills. Partnerships with professional associations are vital to CDC’s ability to share information with clinicians about public health emergencies, CDC guidance, health alert messages, and training opportunities. |
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Clinician's Corner |
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Welcome to the Clinician’s Corner! Each month, we feature a CDC clinician, a clinician who has collaborated with COCA, or a presenter from a COCA Call. This month we’re excited to feature Jonathan Epstein, DVM, MPH, PhD. Dr. Epstein is the Vice President for Science and Outreach at EcoHealth Alliance in New York. Dr. Epstein received his Doctor of Veterinary Medicine and his Master’s in Public Health from Tufts University. He then went on to complete his PhD from Kingston University. such as Nipah virus, Ebola, and coronaviruses related to severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS). He has worked extensively throughout Asia and parts of Africa, catching and sampling bats and other animals and testing them for high consequence pathogens such as Nipah virus and Ebola. His work at EcoHealth Alliance typically entails large, international collaborations using a multidisciplinary approach to examine how viruses circulate within wildlife populations and the mechanisms they have used to spill over into domestic animals and people. In 2004, he was part of the team that discovered bats were the natural reservoir for SARS coronavirus. He currently serves as a technical lead for the United States Agency for International Development's (USAID) Emerging Pandemic Threats, PREDICT program. The aim of the program is to enhance capacity to detect and respond to novel zoonotic viruses that may emerge from wildlife in key hotspots around the world. EcoHealth Alliance is a partner in the PREDICT consortium which is active in more than 30 countries in Asia and Africa.
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CDC Tip |
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Vaccinating Pregnant Women
Not enough women receive Influenza and Tdap vaccines during each pregnancy. Influenza and pertussis cause substantial disease burden among pregnant women and infants too young to be vaccinated. Babies less than 6 months old are at the highest risk of all children for hospitalization from influenza. Vaccinating pregnant women with influenza and Tdap vaccines can reduce influenza and pertussis risk for themselves and their infants.
The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommends that all women who are or will be pregnant during influenza season receive influenza vaccination, which can be administered anytime during pregnancy. ACIP also recommends that women receive a dose of Tdap during each pregnancy, preferably during the early part of gestational weeks 27–36.
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