Updated: 11/24/2003

Contents:

• E-learning Program on Multi-Drug Resistant Organisms: Gram Positive
• Hepatitis C: What Clinicians and Other Health Professionals Need to Know

This e-learning program, authored by Gayle Gilmore RN, MA, MIS, CIC will help ICPs understand the epidemiology of gram-positive MDRO such as MRSA,VRE, and strep pneumoniae, and their impact in healthcare facilities and communities. Isolation systems and management will be discussed across the spectrum of care.  To view this page, click here.

Hepatitis C: What Clinicians and Other Health Professionals Need to Know

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is now offering a free interactive web-based training course on their web site.  The course was designed by the Hepatitis Branch and the Division of Media and Training Services to guide health professionals as they face this major public health threat. The text is based upon the MMWR: Recommendations for prevention and control of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection and HCV-related chronic disease.

This course describes the natural history of hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection; risk factors for acquiring HCV infection; serologic and laboratory tests to diagnose and evaluate patients with HCV infection; treatment options for patients who have chronic hepatitis C; and the most effective methods to counsel patients who have HCV infection. The course is intended for primary care physicians, nurses, infectious disease specialists, blood bank staff, public health professionals and other health care professionals. Continuing education credits for medical and nursing education are available upon completion of study questions. Click here to go to Hepatitis C: What Clinicians and Other Health Professionals Need to Know.

If there is some information which you would like to see added to this page, please contact Christine Pauley at the Delaware Healthcare Association at christinep@deha.org