Barbara DeBaun
April 16, 2018
|By Sketchbook
Education:
- Bachelor of Science Nursing (BSN) – Pace University, Pleasantville, NY
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) – San Francisco State University, San Francisco, CA
Certifications:
- Certified Infection Control Practitioner (CIC)
- TeamSTEPPS Master Trainer
Honors and Awards:
- Member, Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing
- Infection Control Today “Educator of the Year” (2008)
Recent Speaking Engagements:
- Co-Moderator for APIC’s Clostridium difficile Educational and Consensus Conference, Baltimore, MD
- Panelist for Safe in Common Needlestick and Sharps Safety Event webinar
- ‘On the Air’ Interviewee for Stephen Lovell radio show called, ‘The Good Life Made Better’
- Keynote Speaker for Inland Northwest APIC Annual meeting
- Keynote Speaker for Pennsylvania Patient Safety & Quality Symposium in Lancaster, PA
- Moderator for the Annual Conference “Simulation Session: Collaboration Between the Perioperative Nurse and Infection Preventionists”
Committees (Past/Present):
- Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Member, past elected Member of Board of Directors, and Membership Director (SFBA Chapter)
- Past Chair of the APIC Annual Conference Committee and Abstract Committee
- Member APIC Abstract Task Force
- Member of APIC’s Task Force on Ebola (October 2014, 2015).
- Member of the Institute of Medicine (IOM) Standing Committee on Personal Protective Equipment for Workplace Safety and Committee on the Respiratory Curriculum for Occupational Health Nursing Programs
- APIC Liaison, Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)
- Member Regional Advisory Committee, Training for Development of Innovative Technology Project
- Member Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN)
- Member Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA)
Recent Publications/Reviews:
- Reviewed the 2013 APIC Implementation Guide to Preventing Clostridium difficile Infections
- Expert review panel for AHRQ “Closing the Quality Gap: Prevention of Healthcare Associated Infections”
- A Call to Safety: Why current safety devices are not solving the needlestick issue. MedPro Safety Products White Paper, Oct 2012
- Reviewed the Report: Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Personal Protective Equipment for Healthcare Workers, Institute of Medicine of the National Academies, 2008
- Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Properties of an Alcohol-free 2% Chlorhexidine Gluconate Solution AORN Journal, May 2008
- Safety Syringes: Is Your Institution Stuck in the Stone Age? Infection Control Today, July 2007
- Infection Control 2006: Is it something in the air? Nurses Digest, Aug 2006
- Sharps Containers: to reuse or not to reuse; that is the question Infection Control Resource, July 2006
- Transmission of Infection with Multi-dose Vials Infection Control Resource, Sept 2005
Past Work:
- Ajunct Faculty, Dominican University of California, San Rafael, California, 2010-present
- BEACON Bay Area Patient Safety Collaborative – Improvement Advisor
- Director of Patient Safety and Infection Prevention, California Pacific Medical Center San Francisco
- Infection Control Director, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, CA
- Infection Control Coordinator, St Mary’s Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco, California
- Infection Control Nurse, Veteran’s Administration Medical Center, Bronx, NY