Source: APIC

APIC Toolkit Patient Hand Hygiene

The APIC Toolkit for Patient Hand Hygiene is a resource geared towards improving patient hand hygiene. This toolkit includes extensive research into guidelines, barriers, interventions, and tools for improving patient hand hygiene in different healthcare settings.

IPC Essentials

English

Print Resources

Checklist

Graphics

Interactive

Activity Included

Toolkit

Facilitator Guide

Post-Training

Support Materials

Patients, Family, Unpaid Caregivers, Visitors

All Settings

Auditing/ Observation/ Monitoring/ Assessment Tools

Hand Hygiene

Patient & Family Engagement

APIC: New White Paper on Centralized Health-Associated Infection Surveillance Programs and Micro-Credential to Advance Centralized HAI Surveillance and Patient Safety (1/20/2026)

  • This paper offers guidance and expert perspectives on implementing centralized surveillance programs for healthcare-associated infections (HAI) data within health systems, a key step toward more standardized HAI measurement and prevention. It emphasizes improving surveillance accuracy, data use, and patient safety. 

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)