Featured Education & Training Resource

 

Each month VIPTA will feature a new education and training resource.  These featured resources highlight timely and exemplary materials from national leaders and VIPTA partners.

The featured content is also included in the VIPTA Resource Library.

 

Coming to a town near you! Infection Prevention Educator Roadshow. May-July 2024; see registration for dates. Sample of Activities: workplace education hacks, conquer speaker anxiety, escape room adventures, supercharging educator strengths, hands-on education practice, educator goodie bag

The Infection Prevention Educator Roadshow Is Back This Summer

The Infection Prevention Educator Roadshow is hosted by the VDH HAI & AR Program and will be coming to a location near you in summer 2024.  

More About This Resource

  • This free training is focused on building your skills to educate healthcare workers on infection prevention and will be a hands-on learning day. 
  • Participants may come from all practice settings. Last year, participants came from acute care, long-term care, EMS, health department, behavioral health, congregate settings, public health, and more. All are welcome.  
  • This will be an all-new training; previous attendance not required. If you came to Roadshow 2023, there will be all new lessons this year, so please join us again! 
  • Register online – seats are filling up! 

For questions about this training resource, contact ginger.vanhoozer@vdh.virginia.gov 

Image of lifeguard in chair with water along the bottom. Text states: Staying Safe in the SPLASH ZONE.

New Resource is making a SPLASH!

Virginia Infection Prevention and Control Training Center (VIPTC) released their first animated video, and it is focused on the risky “splash zone” around healthcare water sources.

Staying Safe in the Splash Zone (3:30)

Target Audience: Essentials IPC education level

Ways to Share These Resources:

  • This quick video, only three and a half minutes long, is perfect to add to facility orientation and to include in annual infection prevention and control updates.
  • You can pair this video with a rounding checklist or splash zone reminder sign that is available from Health Quality Innovation:
CDC PFL MicroLearn Toolkit promotional image of resources.

Nuggets of Education That Are Perfect for Quick IPC Training

CDC’s Project Firstline (PFL) has created Micro-Learning toolkits. These toolkits have a user guide to orient the facilitator, a discussion guide with talking points, and a job aid for participants to keep. The newest toolkit focuses on diarrhea just in time for winter gastrointestinal season.  

Target Audience: Foundations for healthcare workers

Resources:

Ways to Share These Resources  

  • It can be hard to get time with healthcare workers to do IPC training, so these are perfect bite-sized trainings for change of shift or a quick huddle up.  
  • The user guide and discussion guide talking points make it easier to have consistency among facilitators.  
Image of the first page of the CDC Conversation Guide for Healthcare Providers. Talking with Patients about How to Protect Against Fall and Winter Respiratory Viruses.

Support for the Urgent Need to Increase Immunization Coverage this Winter

On December 14th, CDC released a health advisory about the ongoing need to vaccinate against viral respiratory infections this winter. To help healthcare workers, the health advisory included supporting data and educational resources that we are featuring this month. 

Ways to Share these Resources 

  • Update your patient communication script for the electronic medical record; it isn’t too late to vaccinate! 
  • These conversation-based education resources may be key for those who didn’t vaccinate early.  

Target Audience: Essentials IPC education level 

Image of the Norovirus Essentials Informational Graphic

Infection Prevention Rapid Resources

The Virginia Department of Health HAI/AR Program partnered with CDC’s Project Firstline to create a series of Infection Prevention Rapid Resources to get you the most critical information fast. 

  • Infographics that have the most critical information to get started 
  • Links to additional expert resources to expand your knowledge 

Ways to Share This Resource  

  • Easily match the correct resource level to your target audience 
  • Available topics include Candida auris, norovirus, and flu     

Target Audience: Essentials to Foundational IPC education levels 

Image of microbes with word bubbles around it. Word bubbles include: food supply, communities, across the world, water and soil, and healthcare facilties.

Health Equity and Antimicrobial Resistance Resources from CDC

CDC provided a toolkit of resources that incorporate health equity science into antibiotic stewardship program research.   

Ways to Share this Resource  

  • Perfect for sharing during U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week (November 18-24). 
  • Resources for different audiences to help you match the right materials for patients, residents, family, administrators, prescribers, and healthcare workers.