Source: APIC

APIC: Updated Monkeypox Playbook (11/07/2025)

  • Recent updates to the Monkeypox Playbook include the CDC’s Traveler Health Notice advising enhanced precautions and an updated Risk/Triage Scale recommending increased awareness. Additional information covers the current global situation of monkeypox and the latest outbreak reports.

SHEA/APIC: Multisociety Guidance for Infection Prevention and Control in Nursing Homes (10/28/2025)

  • This guidance document updates the 2008 SHEA/Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) guideline: Infection Prevention and Control in the Long-Term Care Facility and is intended to assist nursing homes in the United States in defining and implementing their infection prevention and control (IPC) programs and practices.
  • Recommendations and implementation suggestions address IPC leadership, staffing, and resources, healthcare personnel and residents‘ adherence to precautions and effective hand hygiene, outbreak preparedness, training, occupational health, cleaning and disinfection in the care environment, and the involvement of IPC in the facility.

Mortality Attribution Tool

This tool provides an estimate of the number of healthcare-associated infection-related (HAI) deaths that occur over a given time period, an estimate of the number of lives that could be saved through a reduced HAI rate, and the option to add information about an intervention that could help achieve an applicable HAI reduction.

Intermediate
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
APIC
Auditing / Observation / Monitoring / Assessment Tools
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSI)
Data Analysis
English
Free
Infection Preventionists
Interactive
Multidrug-Resistant Organism (MDRO)
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Pediatric / NICU
Quality Improvement
Surgical site infections (SSI)
Urinary Tract Infections (UTI) & Catheter associated urinary tract infection (CAUTI)
Ventilator-associated events (VAE), including pneumonia (VAP)

Break the Chain of Infection

This is a poster that illustrates the chain of infection with examples of ways to stop transmission at each link of the chain.

APIC

IPC Foundational Level

English

Print Resource

Poster

Downloadable

Nonclinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel 

Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel 

Infection Preventionist 

All Settings 

Behavioral Health Facilities 

Adult Day Care 

Assisted Living Facility (ALF) 

Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF) 

Home Health 

Dialysis 

Hospice & Palliative Care 

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care 

Ambulatory Surgery 

Acute Care Rehabilitation Hospital or Long-term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH) 

Mobile Clinic 

Acute Care Hospital 

Emergency Medical Services (EMS) 

Pediatric/NICU 

Dental 

Department of Health 

Standard Precautions

Intervention Cost Calculator

This tool provides an estimate of the cost of implementing a specific intervention based on the cost of the current practice, the cost of the new practice and how often the event of interest occurs in a facility.

APIC

IPC Intermediate Level

English

Toolkit

Activity Included

Interactive

Fillable online form

Infection Preventionist

Antimicrobial Stewardship

Administrator

Nonclinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel

Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel

Behavioral Health Facilities

Adult Day Care

Assisted Living Facility

Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility

Home Health

Hospice & Palliative Care

Dialysis

Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care

Ambulatory Surgery

Acute Care Rehabilitation Hospital or Long-term Care Acute Hospital

Acute Care Hospital

Pediatric/NICU

Quality Improvement

Auditing/ Observation/ Monitoring/ Assessment Tools

Data Analysis