Advancing the competency of infection preventionists

Kathleen A. Gase; Carole Leone; Raya Khoury; Hilary M. Babcock

doi:10.1016/j.ajic.2015.01.005

Advancing the competency of infection preventionists

Kathleen A. Gase, Carole Leone, Raya Khoury, Hilary M. Babcock

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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
Pages (from-to)	370-379
Number of pages	10
Journal	American Journal of Infection Control
Volume	43
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ajic.2015.01.005
State	Published - 2015

Keywords

Association of Professionals in Infection
Competency
Control and Epidemiology
Education
Infection prevention

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