Course Overview
The Virginia
Infection Prevention Training Center’s Sustaining and Adapting a CHIP Team module covers
how to strengthen and grow your CHIP program to serve as an extension of
infection prevention efforts across your institution. This module is the third
and final in a series of three modules 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 of CHIP team
- Review deployment of CHIP team
- Your comfy zone: expanding it and trying new
things
- Building a CHIP team to last
- Defining the return on investment (ROI) for
different groups
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.
VIPTC’s Champions of Healthcare in Infection Prevention
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.
Modules
