What’s New

• NB: all PICNet staff will be away June 19-23; contact info here
• BCPSQC Quality Awards: Nominate people and projects that made health care better! – by June 30th
• An easy-to-understand public health video on antimicrobial resistance from Health Education England
• Journal article: Novel approach to seeing dengue infection in the body
• Infection Prevention and Control Practices e-learning modules
• Introduction to Critical Appraisal e-learning module

Latest Reports

• CDI Quarterly Update: Q3 of 2016-2017
• MRSA Quarterly Update: Q3 of 2016-2017
• CPO Surveillance Report: Q3 of 2016-2017
• Hand Cleaning Compliance: Q3 of 2016-2017

Guidelines & Toolkits

• GI Outbreak Guidelines
• Carbapenemase Producing Organisms (CPO) Toolkit
• Antibiotic Resistant Organisms (ARO) Guidelines
• Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) Toolkit

Upcoming Events

• End-of-season estimates of influenza vaccine effectiveness for 2016-17 from Canada – June 20
• Harnessing professional networks to spread best practices for quality improvement – June 21
• IPAC-Canada Annual Conference – June 18-21
• BCPSQC Design Thinking Workshop – June 27

Infection Control Resources

• Precaution Signs
• Infection Control Posters
• Fact Sheets and Brochures
• Infection Control Booklet for Residential Care
• Let’s Go Viral! workshop in-a-box

Webber Teleclasses

• Jun 20: Making sense of alphabet soup: Antimicrobial resistance in gram-negative bacilli
• Jul 13: The psychology of hand hygiene: How to improve hand hygiene using behaviour change frameworks
• Aug 10: Learning infection control via games