NC Infection Control Curriculum for Outpatient Healthcare Settings
To meet the requirements of 10A North Carolina Administrative Code 41A.0206, SPICE must approve all providers of this curriculum.
Approved Providers must have completed the .0206 Outpatient revised on-line course before offering the revised course. Use this link to take the course.
Approved provider status can be rescinded if the curriculum is not taught according to these requirements.
Thank you for being an approved provider for the course, NC Infection Control Curriculum for Outpatient Settings. Our goal is for every healthcare facility to have a staff member who has had this training. You are helping SPICE to achieve that goal. It is critical that we can track where, when, to whom, and by whom this training is provided.
REQUIREMENTS:
Approved provider status can be rescinded if these requirements are not followed:
- SPICE must approve all providers of this curriculum. THE APPROVED PROVIDER ID NUMBER IS FOR ONE INDIVIDUAL ONLY. EVERY PERSON WHO PARTICIPATES IN INSTRUCTION MUST BE APPROVED BY SPICE. SPICE must have current contact information on file. Approved Provider Application.
- Approved Providers: Must renew approved provider status when course materials are updated/revised. You will be notified of updates/revisions.
- Provide the course.
♦ REGISTER: Register your course with SPICE at least one week before the course. When you register your course, you will receive an email that you should retain with links to:
◊ Approved provider course materials page (PowerPoints must be downloaded to the approved provider’s computer.)
◊ Attendees’ course materials page
◊ Template email with evaluation/certificate link that you will email to the attendees who have completed your course.
♦ Have attendees sign in on a course roster (provided by instructor).
♦ Provide the course as planned. Course attendees must receive handouts of the complete slide sets along with additional handouts. The provider can elect to provide hard copy handouts, or at least one week before the course refer learners to the resource webpage where they can access and print the slides and handouts. The link to this page is: https://spice.unc.edu/0206-spice-handouts/
♦ After the course, copy, paste, and send the template email (sent by email when you registered your class) to attendees who completed the course
♦ Within 7 days, complete the course completion form including upload of attendee sign-in sheet.
♦ In the event attendees lose or misplace their certificates, replacements can be requested using the following link. https://spice.unc.edu/certificate/
♦ Free continuing education credit (CNE contact hours=5.5) is available for this course, and appears on the course completion certificate. The disclosure statement is located at the beginning of Module A. Provide this statement in your advertisement: This continuing nursing education activity was approved by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
3. Questions? Contact Jennifer Hubbard Jennifer_Hubbard@med.unc.edu 919-966-6383
COURSE MATERIALS:
PowerPoint Presentations (ppt) A-G, updated 2023.
NOTE: These PowerPoints must be downloaded to the Approved Provider’s computer so that the embedded videos play.
The most recent update of the curriculum (PowerPoint presentations A-G) must be presented entirely and without revisions or alterations. The order of presentations can be altered but all PowerPoint slides must be presented. SPICE will send notifications about curriculum changes, if any, via email.
Disclaimer: These slide sets are the property of SPICE, are to be used solely for .0206 trainings, and cannot be transferred to a third party.
Module C Epidemiology and Risk of Infection
Module D Outbreak and Safe Injection
Module F Disinfection and Sterilization
Module G Application of Cleaning Disinfection
Handouts
Supplemental
Module Quizzes – 5 questions in PowerPoint format for each module (optional provider use)
These Supplementary handouts can be downloaded. Participants don’t need to receive copies of these supplementary handouts but they should know where to find them.
Contact SPICE if there are any questions.
Updated: November 17, 2023