Creating an Infection Prevention Plan

Course Overview
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s course Creating an Infection Prevention Plan provides an introduction to creating an infection prevention plan (IPP) that meets your facility’s needs. This course covers what to consider when creating an IPP and important factors to achieve success.

Target Audience
Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals beginning their experience in infection prevention and control training and who have little to no practice in infection prevention and control concepts. 

Audience examples include novice infection preventionists, clinical healthcare professionals, and nonclinical healthcare leaders, such as environmental services managers, who are seeking foundational infection prevention and control knowledge.

Overall Learning Objectives

• To describe planning strategies that can be used in developing an infection control plan.
• To list suggested areas of focus to be included in an effective infection control plan.
• To recommend methods to use in dissemination of an infection control plan.
• Review strategies to create an infection control plan

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