Course Overview

The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s course, 2021-2022 Year in Review: What’s New and What’s Novel in Infection Prevention, covers 2021-2022 trends of common healthcare-associated infections. Topics include best practices to reduce Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infections (CAUTIs), Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSIs), and Ventilator-Associated Events (VAEs).

Target Audience

Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are or will be directly involved in infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals who have participated in and gained considerable knowledge through specialized infection and control training and have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control concepts.

Audience examples: Intermediate to Proficient Infection Preventionist, Intermediate to Proficient HAI/AR/IPC staff, Intermediate to Proficient Healthcare/Public Health Epidemiologist, Infectious Disease /Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Pharmacist.

Overall Learning Objectives

• Identify one new infection prevention best practice for VAEs
• Identify one new infection prevention best practice for CAUTIs
• Identify one new infection prevention best practice for CLABSIs

 

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing education (CE) credit is not available for this webinar.