Leadership and Managing Change

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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.

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.

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