Category: Announcement

2017 Annual Meeting Early This Year

2/6/2017

Who Should Attend on
April 7, 2017

Infection Preventionists, Educators, DONs, ADNs & wound care nurses from LTC, acute care, public health, behavioral health and home care.

Reserve Early – Space is Limited

Registration fees are nonrefundable but may be transferred to another employee in the same facility
YOU MUST CHOOSE A MEAL OR YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY GET CHICKEN FLORENTINE ORDERED FOR YOU.
This activity has been submitted to the Connecticut Nurses’ Association for approval to award contact hours. The Connecticut Nurses’ Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

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Annual Meeting April 15, 2016 - Save the Date!

1/23/2016

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A Packed Room (2015)

Vendor Hall (2015)

Save the date for the next annual meeting... April 15, 2016. ICNC Annual Spring Seminar - at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington, Connecticut. See you there!

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Fairfield Chapter is Changing It's Name to Western CT Chapter

7/3/2015

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...Fairfield, Norwalk, Bridgeport, Trumbull, Shelton, Danbury, Litchfield County and beyond!

Join Now. Contact:

Co-President: Carol Kellogg, RN
eMail: Carol

Co-President: Sheila Johnson, RN
eMail: Sheila

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Save the Date!

3/8/2015

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The ICNC Annual Spring Seminar
“Think Globally, Act Locally”

Friday, April 17, 2015
7:45 am – 4:00 pm

Registration Begins at:
7:45AM

Aqua Turf Club
556 Mulberry St
Plantsville, CT 06479
(860) 621- 9335

Sponsored by:
The Infection Control Nurses of
Connecticut Board of Directors

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Recommended Adult Vaccination Schedule

2/10/2015

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Click/Tap to Download/View. Recommended Immunization Schedule for Adults Aged 19 Years or Older: United States, 2015

Additional guidance for the use of the vaccines described in this supplement is available at www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/acip-recs/index.html.

Information on vaccination recommendations when vaccination status is unknown and other general immunization information can be found in the General Recommendations on Immunization at www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/rr6002a1.htm.

Information on travel vaccine requirements and recommendations (e.g., for hepatitis A and B, meningococcal, and other vaccines) is available at wwwnc.cdc.gov/travel/destinations/list.

Additional information and resources regarding vaccination of pregnant women can be found at www.cdc.gov/vaccines/adults/rec-vac/pregnant.html.

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CDC Official Health Alert: Drifted Influenza - H3N2 Viruses

12/5/2014

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Source: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has sent out an official Health Alert Network (HAN). CDC's Health Alert Network (HAN) is CDC's primary method of sharing cleared information about urgent public health incidents with public information officers; federal, state, territorial, and local public health practitioners; clinicians; and public health laboratories.

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AN ACT CONCERNING HEPATITIS C TESTING

7/29/2014

State of Connecticut - Testing - Hepatitis C

For Hepatitis C Testing

On June 16, 2014, Governor D. Malloy signed into law Public Act No. 14-203 which was passed through both the Connecticut Senate and House of Representatives which seeks to increase the number of patients who are tested for Hepatitis C, consistent with the announced goal of the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The law will require licensed primary care physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants to offer to provide or order a Hepatitis C screening or diagnostic test for patients born between 1945 and 1965 when providing services to these patients. The requirement will not apply when a patient (1) is being treated for a life-threatening emergency, (2) has been offered previously or has received a Hepatitis C screening test, or (3) lacks capacity to consent to a Hepatitis C screening test. “Primary care” is defined in this new law to include family medicine, general pediatrics, primary care internal medicine, primary care obstetrics, or primary care gynecology, without regard to board certification.

The new Connecticut state law signed in June- Hepatitis C Testing...

ICNC- New Haven Chapter Meeting Notes (06/20/14)

6/28/2014

The meeting was called to order at 12:20 PM with the following members in attendance: Barbara O’Grodnick, Chris Orris, Karlene Brown, Judy Wrenn, Linda Hjort, Raeann Paparello, Ann O’Dea, Sue Dubb and 3 new members: Melody Solano, Beth Samuels and Kim Gray.

Sue opened the meeting with introductions of those at the meeting. She then proceeded to provide the group with an update on infectious disease that she had recently received while attending the June Quarterly CAPHN meeting.

MER CoV Update: 3 cases to date in the US. All were HCWs with a history of working with MER CoV patients in Saudi Arabia. All 3 have recovered without... (Read full report, click/tap on graphic.)

West Nile Virus

5/27/2014

West Nile virus (WNV) was first identified in Connecticut in 1999. The Department of Public Health (DPH) in collaboration with other state agencies and local governments implemented surveillance systems in 2000. These surveillance systems included tracking WNV infections in humans, horses, wild birds, and mosquitoes. It was determined that mosquito surveillance was the best sustainable indicator of potential human infections. The Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station maintains 91 mosquito trap sites in 73 towns statewide. The trapping sites were selected based on habitat, proximity to residential areas, and historical findings.

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),West Nile virus (WNV) infection can cause serious disease; considered a seasonal epidemic in North America that flares up in the summer and continues into the fall spread by the bite of an infected mosquito.

Florence Nightingale - Pioneer and Advocate

5/12/2014

Florence Nightingale
May 12, 1820 – August 13, 1910

Florence Nightingale, the daughter of the wealthy landowner, William Nightingale of Embly Park, Hampshire, is credited with pioneering modern nursing, was born in Florence, Italy. The family returned to England when Miss Nightingale was one years of age in 1821.

In spite of the advantages for being born into a prominent wealthy family, she did not want to settle for a life of marriage nor content to do good works on the estates with her mother and sister; she pondered on the need for charity and the causes of poverty and unemployment."

Biographer, Colin Matthew, has pointed out: "Florence was a good mimic, attractive to men, and had a number of suitors; many of the men she met through her parents remained lifelong friends....” Florence refused to marry several suitors, and at the age of twenty-five told her parents she wanted to become a nurse. Her parents were totally opposed to the idea as nursing was associated with working class women.

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2017 Annual Meeting Early This Year

Annual Meeting April 15, 2016 - Save the Date!

Fairfield Chapter is Changing It's Name to Western CT Chapter

Save the Date!

Recommended Adult Vaccination Schedule

CDC Official Health Alert: Drifted Influenza - H3N2 Viruses

AN ACT CONCERNING HEPATITIS C TESTING

ICNC- New Haven Chapter Meeting Notes (06/20/14)

West Nile Virus

Florence Nightingale - Pioneer and Advocate

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