Certified Infection CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CICP)

• CICP focus on the elevation of awareness of the gaps in infection control performance metrics to the frontline staff 
• CICP essential to the success of improvement initiatives. 
• CICP to understand how the data were collected to establish clinical credibility and to know the expectations related to their role in the prevention of HAI.
• CICP materials  meet the requirements of a culture of safety.
• CICP course, the attendees had outlined goals and objectives for the prevention of HAIs through following identified safe practices.

Topics include

• · Overview of Infection Prevention Programs
• · Competency and Certification of the Infection Prevention
• · Education and Training
• · Accrediting and Regulatory Agencies
• · Infection Prevention and Behavioral Interventions
• · Healthcare Informatics and Information Technology
• · Epidemiology, Surveillance,
• · Performance, and Patient Safety Measures
• · General Principles of Epidemiology
• · Surveillance
•   Outbreak Investigations
•  Use of Statistics in Infection Prevention
•  Process Control Charts
• Risk-adjusted Comparisons
•  Quality Concepts
• Performance Measures
• Patient Safety
•  Microbiology and Risk
•  Factors for Transmission
•  Microbial Pathogenicity and Host Response
• The Immunocompromised Host
•  Microbiology Basics
•  Antimicrobial and Resistance
• Basic Principles of Infection Prevention
• Practice
• Hand Hygiene
• Standard Precautions
• Isolation Precautions (Transmission based Precautions)
• Aseptic Technique
• Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization
• Reprocessing Single-use Devices
• Prevention Measures for Healthcare-Associated Infections
•  Urinary Tract Infection
•  Intravascular Device Infections
•  Infections in Indwelling Medical Devices
•  Pneumonia
• Surgical Site Infection