|
Experienced |
|
Education |
 Nancy
has been the script writer
and/or technical advisor for
the production of fourteen
award-winning training
videotapes for hospitals and
healthcare facilities with
Lincoln Medical Education
Foundation and Cromwell
Communications.
Nancy has authored textbook
chapters and journal articles
in the USA, UK, and Japan,
presented posters and papers
at the National APIC
Conference, and has provided
many programs for local and
regional audiences in extended
care facilities, physician
offices, day-care centers,
emergency medical services,
dental health providers,
public schools, police and
fire departments, and public
service groups.
Most recently Nancy has
published two articles in the
Infection Control Journal in
Japan.
Nancy is currently program
coordinator and lecturer for
an infection prevention and
control training course for
nurses in Japan, called the
IPC Classroom. The 6-session
course will graduate more than
20 ICP's in 2004 and each year
thereafter. |
|
System Review |
|
As the Infection Control
Coordinator at a 300-bed acute
care hospital and trauma
center for 17 years, Nancy
participated in 5 successful
JCAHO Accreditation surveys.
She developed the infection
control manual and had
oversight responsibilities for
aspects of the employee health
program. These experiences in
the hospital setting, have
enhanced her ability to review
systems, infection prevention
and control programs,
surveillance plans and patient
safety programs. |
|
Surveillance |
|
Nancy conducted surveillance
in a 300-bed community
hospital for 17 years.
Initially the surveillance
program was a "whole house"
surveillance format. Nancy
was one of the "pioneers" in
implementing a targeted
surveillance program in 1984.
She presented a paper on this
topic at the 1985 APIC
Educational Conference.
She authored a chapter on the
topic of Surveillance in the
textbook, Infection Control
in Long-Term Care Facilities,
published in 1984.
Nancy has authored a number of
articles on the topic of
surveillance and has been an
invited lecturer on this topic
in the United States, Canada,
Brazil, and Japan. |
|
Project Development |
|
As a Clinical Specialist with
C.R. Bard Medical Division,
Nancy designed and facilitated
hundreds of performance
improvement projects focused
on urinary tract infections in
hospitals of varied sizes in
14 states in the USA.
As a mission project of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church of
America during 1999-2000,
Nancy facilitated the
re-opening of the Phebe School
of Nursing in Liberia, West
Africa working under a
generous grant from the
government of Denmark.
Nancy has been the team
coordinator for a number of
projects and programs at the
state and local level for the
Association for Professionals
in Infection Control &
Epidemiology (APIC), the
Lincoln-Lancaster County
Health Department, the
Nebraska Department of Health
& Human Services, and the
Nebraska Infection Control
Network (NICN).
Most recently, Nancy drafted
the Nebraska strategic plan
for the prevention of
antimicrobial resistance and
is currently serving as the
infection control coordinator
to implement the plan through
a grant from CDC. |
|
|
 |
|
Nancy has accumulated over 25 years of experience in the practice of infection prevention and control, with 4 years as a consultant. This experience comes through 17 years of employment as a "solo" ICP in a 300-bed community hospital, 3 years as a clinical specialist for a medical products company (industry), more than 10 years as an international lecturer, 1 year as a missionary volunteer in Liberia, West Africa, and 13 years as a technical advisor and scriptwriter for the production of training videotapes on infection control topics. Her most recent international experience has been working with the hospitals involved in the SARS epidemic in Toronto. |
|
|
Nancy Haberstich RN MS CIC
Infection Prevention & Control
Consultant
International - Domestic |
|
Click here to print Nancy's Curriculum Vitae (PDF) |
|
“NEW ~ Coaching program for
Infection Prevention and Control
Consultants.”
Find out more |
| |
|
|
.©2004-2006 Consult For Better
Outcomes
|
|
|
