One for All! Mastering Safe Injection Practices with the Injectioneers

Say ‘bonjour’ to better vial safety! A VIPTA partner, the Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center (VIPTC), brings you the Injectioneers— a fun and animated team delivering practical tips through an engaging story to keep your injection practices sharp.

Single and Multidose Vials with the Injectioneers

What to Expect

Follow the “Injectioneers” as they demonstrate the essential steps for safely handling single-use and multi-dose vials.
Learn the “only one” rule and gain practical tips on preparation, handling, and disposal.

Ways to Share this Resource

Use in team huddles, training sessions, or email updates.
Perfect for introducing or reinforcing foundational infection prevention concepts.

Target Audience: Foundational IPC Education Level

Guidance & Regulation Updates

VIPTA members track guidance and regulation resources to share source documents that guide infection prevention and control practices for public health staff and clinical and non-clinical healthcare personnel.

The date of the regulation or guidance update is included in each post. Please check linked content to be sure it is the most up to date and recommended practice.

Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC) November Public Meeting Recap (11/14/24)

CDC

Any Practice Setting

Transmission-Based Precautions

During the November meeting, the workgroup presented responses to the committee for the draft Guidelines for Isolation Precautions and Infection Control in Healthcare Personnel. HICPAC voted and approved the responses.

Interim Guidance for Employers to Reduce Exposure to Novel Influenza A (Such as H5N1 Bird Flu) for People Working with or Exposed to Animals (11/12/2024)

CDC

Acute Care Hospital

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care

Department of Health

Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)

Transmission-Based Precautions

This updated interim guidance identifies work tasks that may pose an increased risk of worker exposure to novel influenza A viruses associated with disease in humans and provides recommended controls for each level. Specific recommendations for these work tasks may be updated as CDC learns more during this evolving situation.

2023 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report

CDC

Acute Care Hospital

Department of Health

Data Analysis

Surveillance

The 2023 National and State Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) Progress Report provides a summary of national and state level data for select HAIs across four healthcare settings: acute care hospitals (ACHs), critical access hospitals (CAHs), inpatient rehabilitation facilities (IRFs) and long-term acute care hospitals (LTACHs). In acute care hospitals, standardized infection ratios (SIRs) showed statistically significant improvement in 2023 compared to 2022 for all HAIs except surgical site infections.

Increase in Pneumonia and Pertussis Infections

VDH

Acute Care Hospital

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care

Department of Health

Mobile Clinic

Pediatric / NICU

Laboratory Collection and Interpretation

Surveillance

Vaccination

Updates on the increases in pneumonia and pertussis in Virginia along with diagnosis, testing, treatment, and infection prevention and control recommendations.

First Case of Clade I Mpox Diagnosed in the United States

CDC

Acute Care Hospital

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care

Department of Health

Emergency Preparedness & Operations

Laboratory Collection and Interpretation

Surveillance

Transmission-Based Precautions

Vaccination

A Health Alert Network (HAN) Health Advisory to provide information about the first case of clade I mpox diagnosed in the United States and recommendations to clinicians about preventing, diagnosing, treating, and reporting mpox cases.

VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital

This month we are highlighting the great infection prevention work at VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital. They haven’t had a reportable catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI), central line-associated bloodstream infection, ventilator-associated event, MRSA bacteremia laboratory-identified event, or surgical site infection following a colon procedure in 2023 or 2024 so far! They are a small facility (only 37 beds), so even one healthcare-associated infection causes their standardized infection ratio to be high.

According to Director of Infection Prevention, Donna Tignor, and Director of Quality, Kate Bradshaw, they are most proud of their work on CAUTI reduction. VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital has the standard CAUTI prevention practices in place, such as a CAUTI prevention bundle and discussing necessity every day in interdisciplinary rounds. However, the initiative with the biggest impact was the facility’s effort to empower nurses to follow the nurse-driven protocol for urinary catheter removal. Despite having a nurse-driven protocol in place, nurses were still calling physicians for permission to remove the catheter. Infection prevention and nursing leaders rounded with staff to share their support for the nurse-driven protocol and empower nursing staff to follow the protocol. These leaders made a commitment to back up the nursing teams if the decision to remove a catheter under the protocol was called into question. Infection prevention at Tappahannock also performs in-person onboarding with new physicians so they can review the nurse-driven catheter removal protocol with them. This ensures that physicians are aware of the facility’s protocols and that this is a part of their culture. Great work VCU Health Tappahannock Hospital!