Course Overview

The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s course on Data Reporting and Infographics Best Practices covers how to transform raw data into meaningful reports and infographics. Topics include data visualization principles, how to communicate data-driven findings, and effective and ineffective plot points.

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

• List strategies for selecting most appropriate data visualization for different types of data sets.
• Identify tools for creation of charts and graphs.
• Discuss best practices for visual representations for data (including what NOT to do).

Continuing Education Credit