030-The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee

In this episode of The Official OSAP Podcast with Michelle Lee, Michelle interviews Karen Daw who is affectionately known as the OSHA lady. Karen and Michelle discuss what brought Karen to the infection control world and what she is seeing right now in light of COVID-19.

Episode Highlights:

• How infection prevention became Karen’s passion
• COVID -19 and Infection Control
• Questions Karen is receiving 
• N-95 name breakdown
• Karen safety tip of the day ;)

Quotes:

“When I are up I knew I wanted to be in safety, but I also knew I wanted to be in healthcare”

“I was handed a big binder filled with pages, that were just flying down the hall as I walked” 

“Life is too short to wake up and say ughhh I have to go to work again today… I am one of the lucky and blessed people that gets to say, I get to do what I love today” 

“Stuff I always assumed to be infection control 101 is popping up, and I was really taken back by that” 

“Before you can look at where we are going, you have to have a solid foundation in the basics” 

“I consider myself a student first, and that is the only way I can be a decent educator” 

“You can find a speaker that fits with your practice” 

“The N stands for not resistant to oil, and the 95 means it will filter out at least 95% of .3 micron diameter particles” 

“It is very difficult to touch your face with a glass of wine in each hand” 

 Links:

https://www.karendaw.com/hello/

https://www.lesliecanham.com/about-us/about-the-experts

The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:

http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/

The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429

OSAP’s homepage: https://www.osap.org/

Michelle Lee’s email:   mlee@osap.org