Addressing Internal Challenges: Effective Teamwork in Infection Prevention

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Course Description
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center's course on Effective Teamwork in Infection Prevention provides an overview of teamwork strategies that will aid your infection prevention plan. Topics include strong team characteristics, the role of infection prevention professionals in creating a culture of safety, and common barriers and their solutions to infection prevention in healthcare settings.

Target Audience

Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who are leading infection prevention activities in their facilities. These are infection prevention professionals with extensive knowledge of infection prevention and control concepts and considerable practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control.

Audience examples include expert infection preventionists and HAI/AR/IPC staff, expert healthcare or public health epidemiologists, and infection prevention program directors and medical directors.

Overall Learning Objectives

Describe characteristics of a strong team
Assess evolving role of infection prevention professionals in driving a culture of safety for patients and staff
Identify common barriers to infection prevention in healthcare settings and provide potential solutions using examples

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Education (CE) credit is not available for this course.

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