Leadership and Managing Change
From Michelle Doll
This course is part of our Advanced Course in Infection Prevention and Control. See below for links to other modules!
Course Overview
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s advanced module, Leadership & Managing Change, was designed for infection prevention professionals who are shaping organizational transformation. This course explores the principles and stages of change, practical steps for leading organizational transitions, and techniques in situational leadership, followership, and coaching. It’s tailored to help you inspire and lead effectively in today’s ever-evolving healthcare environment.
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
- Discuss principles of change and the role of change agents
- Discuss stages of change and the role of change agents
- Discuss suggested steps involved in leading organizational change and the role of change agents
- Discuss situational leadership, followership, and coaching
Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education (CE) credit is available for this course from 9/25/2023 to 9/25/2026. To claim credit, please watch this video in its entirety, then visit the VCU Continuing Medical Education activity page to obtain your credit.
How Did We Do?
We appreciate your feedback and suggestions on how we can improve this course for future participants. Please complete this anonymous evaluation for Leadership & Managing Change.
Resources
- Gould, Gallagher, R., & Allen, D. (2016). Leadership and management for infection prevention and control: what do we have and what do we need? The Journal of Hospital Infection, 94(2), 165–168.
VIPTC’s Advanced Course in Infection Prevention and Control
The Advanced Course in Infection Prevention & Control is designed for those leading infection prevention efforts for their organizations and will focus on implementation science, epidemiologic methods for surveillance and basic biostatistical data analysis, interpretation of the literature for evidence-based practice, and leadership training.
Modules:
- Overview of Healthcare-Associated Infections
- Implementation Science
- Epidemiology Methods for Infection Prevention
- Infection Prevention Program Cost Analysis & Writing a Business Plan
- Leadership & Managing Change
- Emergency Preparedness
- Healthcare-Associated Infections National Quality Reporting
- The Science of Meetings and Effective Facilitation
- Performance and Quality Improvement in Infection Prevention
- Modifiable Risk Factors and Performance Measures
- Reading and Using Scientific Literature
- Sustaining and Adapting a Champion of Infection Prevention Team
- Facility Design, Construction, and Renovations and Infection Prevention
- Water Management
Visit viptc.vcu.edu to access our full library of on-demand courses, training videos, and infection prevention resources.
- Tags
-