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Title: The Toxic Environment We Live In: The Need for INFECTION PROTECTION

Instructor: Michael D. Reed, PharmD, Akron Children’s Hospital

Course Description:
This program will review the common communicable diseases and prepare the health care giver with specific prevention measures that must be followed when providing patient care.

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, participants will be able to:

1. Identify and define the more common communicable diseases confronted by average citizens living in various regions of the world
2. Describe the real, probable and expected incidence rates for common communicable diseases
3. Discuss the factors that account for risk of person to person transmission of common communicable diseases
4. Identify human populations with special vulnerability to communicable diseases 
5. Identify specific animal populations vulnerable to and capable of transmitting disease to humans
6. Discuss specific prevention measures for each communicable disease discussed
7. Describe the optimal protection measures one can implement to protect themselves from transmitting or acquiring a communicable disease, specific to the specific diseases addressed in this program
8. List the common barriers to self protection from acquiring a communicable disease
9. Describe the challenges to implementing a successful “protection from infection” educational and practice program

Course length: 2 hours

Access to course:
This Infection Protection course is a web-based continuing education activity for pharmacists. Continuing Education Accreditation: The University of Findlay is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education and complies with the Criteria for Quality for continuing pharmacy education programming. The Universal Program Number (UPN) is 449-000-08-002-H04-P. This program is approved for 2.0 contact hours (0.2 CEUs). The program expiration date is March 1, 2011.