The Power of Influence- APIC Professional Development Webinar
(August 4, 2010 and August 11, 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT, 12:00 PM CDT, 11:00 AM MDT, 10:00 AM PDT)

Infection Prevention in the Long-term Acute Care Setting
(September 1, 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT, 12:00 PM CDT, 11:00 AM MDT, 10:00 AM PDT)

Infection Prevention and Control in Home Care and Hospice: Improving Your Program...Preventing Infections
(September 8, 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT, 12:00 PM CDT, 11:00 AM MDT, 10:00 AM PDT)

Infection Prevention for Ambulatory Care Centers During Disasters
(September 15, 2010 at 1:00 PM EDT, 12:00 PM CDT, 11:00 AM MDT, 10:00 AM PDT)

2010 Design-Construction Healthcare Guidelines: Updated roadmap for infection prevention & control practice (July 28, 2010)
  

Don't Underestimate Legionella - What Every IP Should Know. (July 21, 2010)
  

Meet the Experts: NHSN (June 29, 2010)
  

Pet Therapy in Healthcare Facilities (June 16, 2010)
  

Elements of an Occupational Health Program: What Every Infection Preventionist Needs to Know (June 2, 2010)
  

Challenges of Infection Prevention and Control in Long Term Care (May 20, 2010)
  

Infection Control in the Behavioral Health Setting (May 11, 2010)
  

A Pediatric system focuses on reducing HAI's and learns that ZERO is a number! (May 6, 2010)
  

Infection Prevention in the Pediatric Ambulatory Setting (April 22, 2010)
  

Disinfection and Sterilization: Complying with the Latest Standards (April 15, 2010)
  

OSHA and CMS Requirements: What ASCs Need to Know (April 8, 2010)
  

Appropriate Use of Personal Protective Equipment (March 23, 2010)
  

TB Transmission and Prevention in Resource Poor Settings (March 16, 2010)
  

Beyond Traditional (March 9, 2010)
  

An Interactive User's Manual for the APIC Text Online (February 25, 2010)
  

The risk of pathogen transmission from environmental surfaces, and what we can do about it (February 4, 2010)
  

A Comprehensive, System-Wide Program to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance Within A Healthcare System (January 19, 2010)
  

Alternate Care Sites: Infection Prevention and Control (January 14, 2010)
  

CMS Environmental Hygiene Regulations 5 Steps to Compliance and Improved Patient Safety (January 12, 2010)
  

How Far Have We Come Post Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act? How Far Can We Go? (December 17, 2009)
  

Surgical Attire: What it is and What it Isn't! (December 15, 2009)
  

Preventing Central Line/PICC Infections: The New CDC Draft Guideline (December 10, 2009)
  

Follow the Yellow Brick Road to Zero VAPs (December 3, 2009)
  

Protecting Employees from Aerosol Transmissible Diseases: Practical Implementation Guidance from the California Experience (November 10, 2009)
  

From Evidence to Implementation; Utilizing the Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Elimination Guide for Infection Prevention Success (November 3, 2009)
  

Guidance on Infection Control for 2009 H1N1 and the Protection of Healthcare Personnel: The View from CDC (October 29, 2009)
  

IIPW 2009 - Preventing Surgical Site Infections: Are you ready for NPSG.07.05.01? (October 22, 2009)
  

IIPW 2009 - Hand Hygiene and Skin Care (October 21, 2009)
  

IIPW 2009 - Partner in Prevention (October 20, 2009)
  

Strategies to Prevent Catheter Related Bloodstream Infection (September 24, 2009)
Catheter Related Bloodstream Infection (CRBSI) is a major cause of patient morbidity, mortality, and cost. Lower CRBSI rates would decrease inpatient length of stay, and improve patient safety and satisfaction. The importance of reducing CRBSI cannot be overstated.
  

Scope Cleaning: What to Look For? (September 17, 2009)
This webinar will discuss quality monitoring and what critical processes and practices to look for in providing a safe environment and safe, properly reprocessed equipment.
  

APIC Name Change (September 15, 2009)
Mark your calendars and plan to attend a webinar on September 15 at 12 Noon - 1 pm ET to learn more about APIC's potential name change to the Association for the Prevention of Infection.
  

ASK-THE-EXPERT: Disinfection and Sterilization: Meeting the CDC Guidelines (September 9, 2009)
Our speaker will review recommendations to improve disinfection and sterilization practices in healthcare facilities to include endoscope reprocessing.
  

Reduction of Central Line Associated Bacteremia (CLABSI) using the Current Guideliness (August 27, 2009)
This program is intended for the bedside care provider and those interested in best practices for the prevention of Central line associated bacteremia ( CLABSI).
  

It's All in Your Facility's Plan: Insights into emerging alignment of CMS Conditions & Accreditation Requirements towards prevention of HAI's (August 11, 2009)
Insights into emerging alignment of CMS Conditions & Accreditation Requirements towards prevention of HAI's.
  

Improving Infection Preventionist Practice Using the APIC Text (August 4, 2009)
This session will provide an overview of its contents and incorporate scenarios to guide use of the Text in improving the practice of new as well as experienced infection preventionists.
  

Evaluating Research Evidence (July 28, 2009)
The purpose of this webinar is to provide a general overview of how to evaluate research and best evidence for use in practice.
  

Access Site and Hub Disinfection: The Missing Link in the CRBSI Prevention Bundle (July 23, 2009)
The goal of this presentation is to review existing science and procedure recommendations for access site and catheter hub/stopcock disinfection.
  

Infection Prevention During Health Care Facility Design & Construction (July 14, 2009)
This webinar will present an overview of infection prevention issues during the design and construction of health care facilities. The presentation will include how to perform an infection control risk assessment for various types of projects from maintenance to greenfield. Discussion will also include design considerations, risk mitigation strategies, and recommendations for providing education, monitoring and documentation.
  

Managing Risk for HAI's - An Emerging Perfect Storm of Liability (May 27, 2009)
Regulatory, reimbursement, and legal standards changes as well as drastic changes in health care itself are creating a potential "perfect storm" of liability and increased risk for hospital acquired infections in health care facilities today. This program will review those changes and, more importantly, inform risk managers, infection control personnel, and others, what types of legally defensible programs they need to have in place to reduce liability risk as well as infection rates. Focusing on the "lowest common denominators" of infection control including hand hygiene, environmental cleaning, preadmission patient screening, visitor access, and intervention bundling, the program will detail strategies to successfully implement, monitor, and improve compliance rates for these issues.
  

ASK-THE-EXPERT: Experience from the Frontline In Controlling the Outbreak Part II (May 14, 2009)
The second part of a two part series entitled: EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT & PANDEMIC PLANNING - Lessons Learned from the H1N1 Outbreak
  

Working Toward Zero Surgical Site Infections (May 12, 2009)
This informative session will describe the process that a facility pursued beginning in 2003 to eliminate Surgical Site Infections (SSI's).
  

ASK-THE-EXPERT SERIES: Emergency Management and Pandemic Planning- Part I (May 7, 2009)
This program offering will cover how to address infection prevention issues during emergency management and pandemic planning. The past, current, and future threat of disasters and different types of disasters will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on infectious disease disasters (pandemics, bioterrorism, and outbreaks of emerging infectious diseases). Infectious disease disaster planning issues will be covered, including biosurveillance, surge capacity specific to infection prevention, decontamination, isolation, quarantine, personal protective equipment, anti-infective therapy, vaccination, and crisis standards of care.
  

Reducing Infection Risk in Ambulatory Care (April 29, 2009)
During this presentation you will identify the basic infection prevention program elements applicable to the ambulatory care setting, review specific historic events that underscore the need for an organized and comprehensive infection prevention program, and describe healthcare personnel practice competencies applicable to the ambulatory care setting.
  

Reducing the Risk of Surgical Site Infections: Embracing Evidence-Based Interventional Strategies to Improve Patient Outcomes (April 21, 2009)
Surgical site infections (SSIs) are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. In an era of greater public scrutiny, amid increased legislative and regulatory accountability several questions come to mind that we will address during this webinar.
  

Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae ( (April 8, 2009)
Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae an emerging multi-drug resistant organism in healthcare settings. Infections caused by these pathogens are associated with high morbidity and mortality.
  

Surgical Site Infection Prevention: One Surgeon's Perspective (March 31, 2009)
This 60 minute presentation will discuss some of the theories of the causes of SSI.
  

Protecting Patients from the Risk of Surgical Site Infections (March 10, 2009)
In this 60 minute webinar we will review specific strategies that have worked, and how these lessons learned can be applied in any setting, whether inpatient acute care hospital or ambulatory surgery facility.
  

Challenging Microbes--Practice Guidance for Healthcare Environmental Cleaning (March 4, 2009)
This 60 minute webinar will focus on describing the epidemiology of challenging microbes as well as presenting the ES tools for safeguarding the health care facility.
  

Elimination of Clostridium difficile Transmission in Healthcare Settings (February 18, 2009)
This 60 minute webinar will build upon the changing pathogenesis of this infection and will provide basic as well as heightened infection prevention responses.
  

Antimicrobial-Associated Risk and C. Diff (December 17, 2008)
  

The Latest From the CDC on C. Diff (December 10, 2008)
  

APIC C. Diff Prevalence Research Highlights (December 3, 2008)
  

Economics of CMS (November 7, 2008)
  

Catheter-Related Bloodstream Infections (October 31, 2008)
  

Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (October 24, 2008)
  

The Dynamics of Clostridium Difficile (October 21, 2008)
  

Surgical Site Infections (October 17, 2008)
  

Catheter-Related Urinary Tract Infections (October 3, 2008)
  

MRSA: APIC's Guide To Elimination in Hospital Settings (September 8, 2008)
  

MRSA in Long-Term Care (August 12, 2008)
  

Infection Prevention and Control for Influenza (July 22, 2008)
  

Reducing Urinary Tract Infections in the Hospital Setting (June 8, 2008)
  

Infection Prevention and Control in Ambulatory Care (May 27, 2008)
  

C-diff: Tracking Transmission (May 20, 2008)
  

Application of CDC Guidelines for Containment of TB (May 6, 2008)
  

Challenges of Clostridium Difficile Infection (CDI) Surveill (April 29, 2008)
  

Vascular Catheter-Related Infections (April 15, 2008)
  

Understanding CMS’ Hospital-Acquired Conditions Requirements (February 19, 2008)
  

Vascular Access: Connection Without Infection (February 12, 2008)