Our scope is facility infection prevention and control.

Having an infection control expert from IPACmavens partner with your organization can save valuable resources including your time.  

At IPACmavens, a Board-Certified Infection Preventionist can help you and your organization to improve on your quality and safety initiatives by implementing programs, trainings and standards which will reduce the risk of infection transmission.

We do all of these while meeting the following fundamental goals of our infection prevention and control program: 

• Protecting the patients/residents
• Protecting the healthcare personnel/staff and visitors
• Meeting accreditation and regulatory mandates
• Accomplishing these goals in a cost-effective manner for the organization

4.1. IPAC ASSESSMENT

We will conduct a thorough assessment of your IPAC processes including an infection control risk assessment, and provide risk mitigation strategies. This assessment usually involves a facility tour, observation and review of your records and documentations. Our consultant will conduct a gap analysis and generate a report within 3 business days. We will also assist you with accreditation survey preparation and regulatory requirements as well as provide assistance with corrective plans of action related to audit deficiencies from inspectors.

4.2. IPAC EDUCATION

Healthcare workers struggle to keep up with knowledge of infection prevention and control simply because the time they have to devote to ongoing education is so limited. Recognizing these are a quality and patient/resident safety issue, IPACmavens has developed programs with various options to educate and update healthcare workers on the latest practices, new and changing regulations, and much more. We provide onsite and web-based educational and training programs on infection prevention and control.

4.3. CIC EDUCATION

Believe in the adage that it’s better to teach a man how to fish than feed him for a day. We provide comprehensive preparation in both theoretical and practical aspects of the CIC exam to candidates who want to be certified in infection control. Our CIC certified consultants have experience in education and exam preparation towards your successful completion of the CIC exam.

Topics

We provide preparatory courses in the following key exam areas:

1) Identification of Infectious Disease Processes

2) Surveillance and Epidemiologic Investigation

3) Preventing/Controlling the Transmission of Infectious Agents

4) Employee/Occupational Health

5) Management and Communication

6) Education and Research

7) Environment of Care

8) Cleaning, Sterilization, Disinfection, Asepsis

4.4. IPAC PROGRAM AND POLICY MANUAL

We help develop infection prevention and control policy and procedure manuals for organizations. We also transcript public health directive into easy to read policy documents for organizations.

4.5. HEALHCARE STAFFING AND REFERRALS

The search for qualified healthcare professionals has never been easy. Institutions, organizations have often relied on human resource agencies with limited specialized expertise to support their short-term staffing needs. IPACmavens with its unique niche in infection prevention and control has come to provide lasting solution to this problem. We provide placement of qualified healthcare professionals for temporary help services and long-term contracts. When you contract IPACmavens, you do not need to worry about CPP, payroll, life insurance, vacation pay, health and welfare benefits as we will handle that for you. We provide staffing referrals for epidemiologists, RNs, RPNs, PSW, RSW, RD, housekeeping, and recreation aides. All our candidates have completed a mandatory 2.5 hours module on PPE donning and doffing, hand hygiene, transmission-based precaution and breaking the chain of infection.

4.6. FACILITY CLEANING AND DISINFECTION

The health and wellbeing of many workplaces depends on the cleanliness of their immediate environment. Based on this understanding, IPACmavens has recently launched a janitorial unit which falls under the infection prevention and control department. This unit provides a new direction in janitorial services from a public health perspective that is consistent with best practices for infection prevention and control and which is in accordance with Provincial Infectious Diseases Advisory Committee (PIDAC) guidelines. We ensure that cleaning is done in a way that prevents cross-contamination as well as the breeding of micro-organisms.

4.7. INSTRUCTIONAL DESIGN

Our consultants have experience in adult learning theories, the development of learning plans and creation of web-learning platforms. We consult on the creation of IPAC graphics, animations, videos and interactive tools to engage learners of diverse educational background.