Education/Training Articles

Decontamination, Disinfection and Sterilization | 8.28.19

Rethink Your Approach to Infection Control

The skin is the largest organ system in the human body, making up roughly 16% of our body weight. When...

Hand Hygiene | 8.22.19

The GOJO Guide to Fire Safety and Alcohol-Based Hand Rubs

Ensuring compliance to fire codes and fire safety regulations can be confusing for healthcare facilities due to the many different...

HAIs: Types and Pathogens | 6.18.19

Clostridioides difficile (formally Clostridium difficile) infection educational booklet

Clostridioides difficile (formally Clostridium difficile, or C. diff) infection (CDI) is considered a worldwide threat with major consequences for morbidity,...

Environmental Infection | 6.6.19

Advancing the profession: An updated future-oriented competency model for professional development

Learn how the APIC Competency Model Revision Task Force developed a revised competency model. The focus of the Competency Model...

Environmental Infection | 4.8.19

PDI Introduces FREE Continuing Education Courses

Introducing PDI’s new educational experience at pdihc.com, which features, a growing library of CE courses; personalized account activity; and on-the-spot...

Hand Hygiene | 2.25.19

Want to Improve Hand Hygiene Compliance? Stop Focusing on Changing Behavior and Start Building Meaningful Relationships

Hand hygiene improvements have traditionally focused on changing behavior of frontline healthcare workers. This presents a challenge for the Infection ...

Diagnostics | 1.9.19

Benefits of Presurgical MRSA Testing

With our aging population in the US, the projection for the number of total hip and total knee arthroplasty procedures...

Decontamination, Disinfection and Sterilization | 8.7.18

2018 APIC Symposium – Challenges in Ultrasound Infection Prevention

The symposium addresses important issues in ultrasound probe reprocessing through a focus on a set of practical tools developed by...