Zoom Online Meeting

Learning Outcome:

Participants will be able to identify the steps needed to develop an action plan to organize around gaining safer working conditions related to infectious disease risk.

Objectives:

• Describe methods to assess infectious disease exposure risk in a healthcare facility including data collection and assessment.
• Identify how to determine if your employer is engaging in effective workplace infection controls based on the modes of transmission.
• Identify actions to be undertaken by nurses to address employer failures to provide a workplace environment free of infectious disease hazards.
• Describe steps needed to develop an action plan to organize nurses around health and safety issues including:

a)     Gathering information related to hazardous working conditions

b)     Identifying nurses for health and safety activity

c)     Setting health and safety goals related to decreasing infectious disease risk

d)     Mobilizing nurses to take joint action to attain identified safety goals

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