We are updating the IP online course.

Check back for updated registration links on August 1, 2024. You may also sign up for our mailing list​ to receive an email notification when the coursework is available. If you are looking for more immediate infection prevention training, consider the CDC/STRIVE Infection Control Trai​ning online course​​.​

Wednesday-Thursday, February 26-27, 2020

Register via the Course Flyer link (PDF)

Infection Prevention 2-Day Course

This course was designed to prepare novice hospital-based infection preventionists (IP) for the initial phase of their work and educate other healthcare staff on the healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention.  The course is not intended to be a substitute for a full three- or four-day fundamentals course recommended for all hospital IPs , but rather to serve as a bridge until such a course can be attended.

The objectives of the Infection Preventionist 2-Day Course are to review the most important care practices for preventing the most common HAI and learn the principles of HAI surveillance and other disciplines necessary to perform the job of (or oversee) an IP. The course provides thirteen (13) continuing education (CE) contact hours.

Note: The course has been updated to include an acute care track and a new separate long term care track to meet the needs of healthcare workers in both areas.

All course materials, including references and resource tools, are easily accessible via this webpage. Click on each topic to view or print.

All Healthcare Settings

• Role of the Infection Preventionist (PDF)
• Core Infection Prevention Practices (PDF)
• Standard Precautions (including Hand Hygiene, Injection Safety - PDF)
• Transmission-based Precautions (PDF)
• Cleaning, Disinfection, Sterilization, and the Environment (PDF)
• C. difficile Infection Prevention (PDF)
• Central Line Associated Bloodstream Infection Prevention (PDF)
• Microbiology (PDF)
  
• Outbreaks and Unusual Infection Occurrences (PDF)
• Preventing Employee Infections (PDF)
• Antibiotic Stewardship (PDF)
• Laws and Regulations (PDF)

Hospital Settings

• Surgical Site Infection Prevention (PDF)
• Pneumonia / Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Prevention (PDF)
• Catheter Associated Urinary Tract Infection Prevention (PDF)
• Epidemiology and Surveillance (PDF)
• Introduction to the National Healthcare Safety Network (PDF)
• CDI Surveillance (PDF)
• CLABSI Surveillance (PDF)
• MRSA and VRE BSI Surveillance (PDF)
• SSI Surveillance (PDF)
• CAUTI Surveillance (PDF)
• Pneumonia / VAP Surveillance (PDF)

Skilled Nursing Facility Setting

• Respiratory Infection / Pneumonia Prevention (PDF)
• Urinary Tract Infection Prevention (PDF)
• Scabies Control and Prevention (PDF)
• Enhanced Standard Precautions (PDF)
• Communicating Infection Information (PDF)
• Infection Surveillance (McGeer’s Criteria - PDF)
• Using NHSN for LTC Surveillance (PDF)

​Contact Us

HAI Program at HAIProgram@cdph.ca.gov