healthcare-associated infections (HAI) program

The Infection Prevention 2-Day Course is now closed. The course will return by late spring / early summer 2025. The course announcement will be featured on our HAI Program website when available.

If you are looking for more immediate infection prevention training, consider the CDC/STRIVE Infection Control Training online course.

Infection Prevention 2-Day Course

This course was designed to prepare novice hospital-based infection preventionists (IP) for the initial phase of their work and educate other healthcare staff on the healthcare-associated infection (HAI) prevention. The course is not intended to be a substitute for a full three- or four-day fundamentals course recommended for all hospital IPs , but rather to serve as a bridge until such a course can be attended.

The objectives of the Infection Preventionist 2-Day Course are to review the most important care practices for preventing the most common HAI and learn the principles of HAI surveillance and other disciplines necessary to perform the job of (or oversee) an IP. The course provides thirteen (13) continuing education (CE) contact hours.