VDH Healthcare-Associated Infections & Antimicrobial Resistance Program

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Course Overview

The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s course, VDH Healthcare-Associated Infection and Antimicrobial Resistance Program, provides an overview of VDH’s efforts to prevent and respond to healthcare-associated infections and antimicrobial resistance. This course outlines the structure of the HAI/AR team, discusses NHSN reporting requirements, and describes VDH-led initiatives such as IPC assessments, MDRO containment strategies, and cross-agency collaboration.

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 importance of collaborating with VDH for infectious outbreak investigations
Identify resources VDH provides to IP programs
Discuss programs within the VDH’s HAI/AR Program

Continuing Education Credit

Continuing Education (CE) credit is not available for this course.

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