SPICE Infection Control Courses

Infection Control Part 1: Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections

This four-day course is designed to provide infection preventionists in acute care settings with the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of healthcare-associated infections and improve their clinical surveillance skills. This course will enable learners to understand NC Laws and the legal aspects of infection control; how to conduct an infection control assessment; how to conduct surveillance and successfully report data; the pathophysiology and microbiology of healthcare-associated infections; and how to report HAIs to NHSN.

Infection Control Part 2: The Infection Preventionist as an Environmentalist

Intended for infection preventionists in acute care settings, this 4-day course will allow participants to broaden their knowledge of sterilization, disinfection, antibiotic utilization, infections in high-risk groups, and epidemics, as well as their understanding of the interface between hospital, ambulatory care, and community health settings and infection control. Infection Control Part I is not a prerequisite for this course.

Infection Control in Long-Term Care Facilities

This three-day program is held every spring and fall and is designed to provide participants with current, practical information on recognizing and managing common infection-prevention issues in non-acute care facilities, with an emphasis on long-term care. Basic statistics for surveillance and antibiotic stewardship are new additions to the course.

.0206 NC Infection Control Curriculum

These courses cover the following topics tailored to specific care settings: epidemiologic principles of infectious disease; principles and practice of asepsis; sterilization, disinfection, and sanitation; universal blood and body fluid precautions; safe injection practices; engineering controls to reduce the risk of sharp injuries; disposal of sharps; and techniques that reduce the risk of sharp injuries to health care workers.

Infection Control in Nursing Homes

CEU  3.6 Contact Hours

Instrument Reprocessing: High-Level Disinfection and Sterilization for the Infection Preventionist

This free self-paced course consists of short modules. Topics covered: 1) Physical Plant Design, 2) Spaulding Classification Scheme, 3) Decontamination, Precleaning, and Transport, 4) High-Level Disinfection (HLD), and 5) Sterilization Process.

This is a free course with a certificate of completion; however, it does not offer CEUs.

Certificate Replacement

SPICE encourages you to obtain your course completion certificate by completing the course evaluation as soon as you receive the evaluation email. After 60 days, anyone needing a copy of their course completion certificate must pay $30 by credit card to obtain a replacement certificate. Note that we cannot provide replacement certificates for courses over 5 years ago.

SPICE does not currently offer these courses in classroom/webinar format, but others do. Other classroom and webinar course options:

• NC AHEC Continuing Education Search Engine
• Total Medical Compliance
• UNC School of Dentistry Continuing Education