Abstract
The Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has identified advancing infection prevention competency as a core goal in their Strategic Plan 2020. To achieve this goal, APIC has published a self-assessment tool to help infection preventionists identify where they are on a predefined scale. This project trialed APIC's self-assessment tool along with an internally developed objective assessment. The objective was to determine if the tools help identify areas for improvement to advance overall group competency at BJC HealthCare, a large Midwestern health care system with nearly 30 infection preventionists.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 370-379 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | American Journal of Infection Control |
Volume | 43 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2015 |
Keywords
- Association of Professionals in Infection
- Competency
- Control and Epidemiology
- Education
- Infection prevention