Extending the Reach of Infection Prevention: A Nurse Link Program in Action

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Course Overview

The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s course Extending the Reach of Infection Prevention: A Nurse Link Program in Action provides an overview of a nursing infection control champion program in action. Presented by Dr. Madhuri Sopirala, Chief of Infection Prevention at Parkland Health and Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases at UT Southwestern Medical School, topics include the impact of link nurse programs, link nurse responsibilities, program challenges, and outcome measures.

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 who have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with infection prevention and control concepts.

Audience examples include advanced beginner to proficient infection preventionists and HAI/AR/IPC staff, novice to proficient healthcare or public health epidemiologists, and antimicrobial stewardship program pharmacists.

Overall Learning Objectives

Describe the concept of a link nurse program
Describe the strategies for building an effective link nurse program
Describe strategies to achieve long term success with a link nurse program
Describe examples of successful projects undertaken by link nurse programs

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Education (CE) credit is available for this course until May 1, 2026. Once viewed, please visit the activity page to obtain your credit.

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