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Practicing
infection control in health care settings often involves adhering
to federal and local regulations
and guidelines. Legislative and regulatory
advocacy regarding the development
of these regulations and guidelines has always been an important
aspect of APIC's operations. This area will provide important information
on APIC's governmental affairs activities and governmental activity
important to infection control professionals.
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Current issues:
| 1. Universal
precautions rule: Currently under review at
ISDH. Watch
the Indiana Register
for publication of the draft. |
| 2. Resistant
organism
guideline: Complete and published on
the ISDH web site. You can access the document
from the link located on our Home page. |
3.
OSHA TB regulation: Though the
TB regulation
was dropped at the end
of 2003, OSHA indicated their intention
to survey for implementation
of the full respiratory protection standard
when they
survey health care facilities. This
would require
annual re-fit testing for all
N95 masks. APIC has continued to work to get
this requirement
appealed
on the grounds that
this action
will consume
significant healthcare resources and is
not based
on evidence that it will have any impact on transmission rates
of TB. APIC
issued an Action Alert on September 10 (include
link-I emailed
it to you)
which outlined the
status of
a House amendment
to delay or abandon this requirement
for annual
fit testing. The National office
will continue
to be involved
in this process and
will notify
the membership
if they need us to contact our legislators regarding
this important
issue.
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4.
Bioterrorism preparedness:
- State
Level: Small pox
working group-Laurie
Fish representative, Hospital Group-Vickie Vandeventer
representative
- Syndromic Surveillance-Linda
Jones at ISDH coordinating
the development of
Syndromic surveillance
system.
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Who to Contact for questions:
Laurie Fish-Chairperson Contact me at lfish@ehealthindiana.com
Helen Volk- Past Chairman |
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Last Updated: Fri,
Sep 6, 2004
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