Webcast & Slides:

Healthcare Personnel Safety Component: Overview

Summary

This training reviews NHSN and its purposes, the 4 components in NHSN: Patient Safety, Healthcare Personnel Safety, Biovigilance, and Research and Development, and the two modules: Blood and Body Fluid Exposures and Influenza Vaccination. This training also defines key terms in HPS and how to complete the HPS Annual Facility Survey and the Monthly Reporting Plan. 

Audience: This training is designed not only for those who will collect and analyze Healthcare Personnel Safety Component (or HPS) data, but also for those who will enroll a healthcare facility into NHSN. This includes NHSN facility administrators, the Healthcare Personnel Safety Primary contact, occupational health professionals, infection preventionists (IPs), epidemiologists, and data entry staff. The primary HPS contact is the person in your facility who has primary contact with CDC, especially regarding data entry questions. This is likely to be someone with occupational health responsibilities in your facility.