Dates for this course are:
- April 20-23, 2020
Enter your name to be selected for the Eva Clontz Infection Control in Acute Care Settings Scholarship
Course Quote: (For attendees to submit to their facility supervisor for attendance approval)
Location: UNC William and Ida Friday Center, 100 Friday Center Drive, Chapel Hill, NC 27599
This week-long course is intended to provide infection preventionists in hospitals with the opportunity to develop their knowledge of healthcare-associated infections and to improve their skills in clinical surveillance. This course will enable learners to know NC Laws and legal aspects of infection control, how to conduct an infection control assessment, how to do surveillance and successfully report data, know pathophysiology and microbiology of healthcare associated infections, and how to report HAIs to NHSN.
Cost is $665 for NC residents, $720 for out-of-state residents. Payment by credit card only (Visa and MasterCard only).
NOTE: Successful completion of BOTH “Infection Control Part 1: Clinical Surveillance of Healthcare-Associated Infections” and “Infection Control Part 2: The Infection Preventionist as an Environmentalist” offered by SPICE will meet the requirements of the NC Infection Control law 10A NCAC 41A.0206 for attending an approved course.
This activity was approved by the North Carolina Nurses Association for approval to award contact hours. The North Carolina Nurses Association is accredited as an approver of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
Estimated contact hours: 25.70
For information on Infection Control Part 2 click here
For more information regarding this course, please call Amy Powell 919-966-6383 or email: amy_powell@med.unc.edu
