2024-2025 Companion Animal Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Control Seminar Series presents:
Hand Hygiene in Veterinary Medicine: Clean Hands Count
Consistent, thorough hand hygiene is the single most important measure veterinary personnel can take to reduce the risk of disease transmission. This presentation by Regina Wagner will provide up-to-date education on how to perform hand hygiene, when to perform it, how to promote it, and how to measure compliance.
Regina Wagner, BSN, JD, RN has a diverse background in both law and nursing. She has a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Thomas Jefferson University College of Nursing, graduating magna cum laude, with induction into Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. In addition, Regina has a Juris Doctor from the Catholic University of America, was a prosecutor and defense attorney in Washington, D.C. for over ten years and is a member in good standing of the District of Columbia and State of Maryland bars. She is currently a candidate in the Health Leadership Master of Science in Nursing and the Master’s in Healthcare Quality and Safety programs at the University of Pennsylvania.
In her current role, Regina is the Infection Prevention Manager at the School of Veterinary Medicine, Ryan Hospital, University of Pennsylvania (Penn Vet). She has experience in several areas of nursing, including her previous roles as a clinical nurse at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia in the pediatric neurology unit, a scrub nurse and circulator at the CHOP Main Operating Room specializing in neurosurgery, orthopedics, ophthalmologic surgery, and plastic surgery, a clinical research nurse at CHOP, and Infection Prevention Practitioner at CHOP, Penn Medicine, and Virtua Health.
Regina recently was a presenter of “Infection Control for Small Animal Clinics” at the 2023 Inaugural Veterinary School Small Animal Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference at the University of Minnesota and was a co-presenter with Dr. Stephen Cole at the Penn Annual Conference 2022 of “Big Bad Bugs: Stopping the Spread of Antimicrobial Resistant Organisms in Veterinary Practice.” Her responsibilities include teaching Penn Vet students and staff the concepts of infection prevention and control in a veterinary hospital setting and designing and leading the hospital’s infection prevention and control program. Regina is a member of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN), the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing, the District of Columbia Bar, and the State of Maryland Bar.
This program has been approved for 1 hour of continuing education credit for veterinarians in jurisdictions that recognize RACE approval.