Sustaining and Adapting a Champions of Healthcare Infection Prevention (CHIP) Team
From Michelle Doll
This course is part of our Advanced Course in Infection Prevention and Control Series as well as our Champions of Healthcare Infection Prevention Series. See below for links to other modules!
Course Overview
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s advanced module, Sustaining and Adapting a Champions of Healthcare Infection Prevention (CHIP) Team, provides practical guidance on building and maintaining a successful CHIP team. This course covers recruitment and deployment strategies, ways to evolve the team structure to meet facility needs, and how to justify the team's value using return-on-investment (ROI) principles. Participants will also explore traits needed for key team roles. This module is the third in a series for implementing a CHIP program.
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
- Review recruitment and deployment strategies
- Discuss strategies for sustaining a successful CHIP team
- Discuss adapting the team to meet the needs of your facility
- Discuss the importance of justifying a CHIP team in your facility in terms of return on investment (ROI)
- Identify desired traits of key positions within a CHIP team
Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education (CE) credit is available for this course until 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.
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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
VIPTC’s Champions of Healthcare in Infection Prevention Series
VIPTC has created the following series of videos to help you build or strengthen your CHIP program in your facility. Also included in the Intermediate and Advanced Courses in Infection Prevention & Control, these modules together give specific focus to building and maintaining a CHIP program. Topics include the foundations of building a CHIP program, how to implement a CHIP program in your facility and possible challenges, and how to sustain and adapt your CHIP program over time. To view the other modules, please see the links below.
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