Scrub a Dub, Dub: Infection Control for Housekeeping and Laundry 

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Event Schedule
August 5, 2026  I  10:30–11:30 a.m. CT

Location
Virtual/Zoom

Event Description
This session will focus on the challenges of infection control in housekeeping and laundry within long-term care.

Objectives

• Describe the infection control requirements for both housekeeping and laundry in long-term care.
• Investigate different cleaner and disinfectant products and instructions for use related to your facility equipment and supplies.
• Determine if current infection prevention practices, product selection, and equipment meet the necessary requirements to maintain a safe, sanitary environment.

Speaker
Deb Patterson Burdsall PhD, RN-BC, CIC, LTC-CIP, FAPIC
Deb Burdsall is a long-term care Infection Preventionist who has worked in nursing since 1974. She started as a nurse’s aide, and has worked as a staff nurse, nursing supervisor, interim director of healthcare services, MDS/care plan coordinator, wound nurse, quality assurance coordinator, and clinical inservice coordinator. Deb has worked in acute care in both medical oncology and telemetry at a large academic medical center.

Deb is board certified in infection prevention and control (CIC), long term care infection prevention and control (LTC-CIP), and ANCC certified in gerontological nursing. She is a Fellow of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC).

Deb is a grantee with Hektoen Institute and The Illinois Department of Public Health working with congregate care settings in Illinois. She works to find evidence-based, cost-effective infection prevention strategies for long term care. She co-authored the APIC Infection Prevention in Long Term Care and is an author for the Multisociety guidance for infection prevention and control in nursing homes. Deb has been on working groups for other APIC toolkits and documents, including the APIC LTC-CIP Review Course, APIC/IPAC Ethical Infection Prevention and Control (EIPAC) Decision Making Framework, and the AADNS/APIC Implementing the Use of Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Skilled LTC Nursing Facilities. 

Continuing Education Information
Nursing Home Administrators: 1 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Examiners for Nursing Home Administrators for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.  Retain your certificate for four years.

Iowa Board of Nursing: 1 contact hour is intended to meet the criteria established by the Iowa Board of Nursing for participants who attend this event in its entirety. Partial credit for this event will not be granted. To receive contact hours or a certificate of attendance, you must attend the entire event.  Retain your certificate for four years.

For other long-term support and service provider professionals not listed above: Most licensure boards, credentialing agencies and professional organizations have processes that allow individuals to earn a certain number of CEUs for non-preapproved programs and/or to accommodate self-submission for approval of continuing education hours after the event takes place with proper documentation from the program sponsors. It is up to the discretion of the licensee to choose relevant sessions and self-report. Generic certificates of attendance will be provided.                                   

Registration & Other Information
LeadingAge Iowa Member       FREE
Prospective Member                $99  
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What’s Included
Registration fee includes digital handout, one connection to the live webinar and instructions for receiving CE credit/ attendance certificate.  A recording of this webinar is included in the registration fee (no CE credit/attendance certificate will be awarded when viewing the recording).

Cancellation/Refund Policy
There will be no refunds approved for this webinar. Registered attendees who miss the live webinar can request the recording following the webinar.

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