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Infection: Don't Pass It On

Promotion

The goal of the campaign, Infection: Don’t Pass It On, is to involve staff, patients, and visitors in preventing infection and preparing the VA medical system for infectious disease emergencies, both natural and manmade. The tools and resources below can facilitate and be used to promote and support campaign messages.

Tools

Here are some tools that can be used to promote the Infection: Don't Pass It On campaign. Additional tools are under development.

Campaign Publicity and Education

It may be useful to explore some of the articles and writings about the campaign for possible use in local, facility or VISN newsletters or other promotional media resources. You may also want to prepare presentations for trainings or education classes on the importance of PPE or hand and respiratory hygiene. Here are some samples you may download and use during promotion of the Infection: Don’t Pass It On campaign.

Press and Promotional Text Samples

VA publicity - Vanguard, July/August 2004, page 29
vanguard_04JulAug.pdf   (119k PDF File)

VA publcity - Vanguard, September/October 2004, pages 6-8
vanguard_O4SepOct.pdf  (135k PDF File)

Sample Campaign Summary for Newsletters
sample_newsletter.doc   (27k MS Word File)

Sample Campaign Summary for General Announcements
sample_announcement.doc  (30k MS Word File)

Slide Templates and Slide Presentations

Slide Template

powerpoint templateBelow is a link to a blank template for VA providers to use when preparing presentations and trainings pursuant to the Infection: Don’t Pass It On campaign. This PowerPoint template will maintain the same footer information (campaign logo, campaign slogan text, and VA logo) throughout the slide presentation. The image to the left is a sample slide built using the template. You may download the PowerPoint template by clicking on the link below.
ppt_hygiene_powerpoint.ppt  (1,340k Powerpoint File)

Slide Presentations

Brief summary slides of Infection: Don’t Pass It On Campaign
summary_slides.ppt (4,250k Powerpoint File)

Slides to emphasize the importance of hand hygiene practices within a healthcare system.
hand_hygiene_facts.ppt (147k Powerpoint File)

Slide sets for healthcare workers in acute care hospitals on "Hand Hygiene in Healthcare Settings-Core" and accompanying speaker notes provide an overview of the Guideline for Hand Hygiene in Health care Settings published in 2002.
hand_hygiene_core.ppt (207k Powerpoint File)

 

Please note:: Some of the above forms and files require program specific document viewers.
For Adobe Acrobat PDF: Click here to download the Acrobat Plugin.
For Microsoft Powerpoint PPT: Click here to download PowerPoint Viewer 2003.
For Microsoft Excel XLS: Click here to download Excel Viewer 2003.
For Microsoft Word: Click here to download Word Viewer 2003.