11Aug 2025 by Chelsea Song

2025 IP Boot Camp Rewind

Boot Camp
2025 IP Boot Camp Rewind The 2025 Infection Prevention Boot Camp was our biggest and most successful event yet! Building on the proven format from the 2024 sessions, the Boot Camp featured one virtual didactic day followed by two in-person simulation days at two specially selected locations—Owensboro and Versailles, Kentucky. Feedback from participants was overwhelmingly positive. Learners left feeling empowered, equipped with practical skills and ready to implement changes in their facilities. As always, Boot Camp is completely free, offers continuing education credits, and fosters a safe learning environment where making mistakes leads to risk recognition, behavior change, and improved safety for both healthcare workers and patients. Scroll on to view pictures, topics, and videos from the 2025 IP Boot Camp.  Click here to learn more about upcoming Boot Camps! Pictured…
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05Aug 2025 by Chelsea Song
Respiratory Season Readiness: Infection Prevention Tips for Healthcare Teams

Respiratory Season Readiness: Infection Prevention Tips for Healthcare Teams

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Respiratory season is upon us once again, bringing an increased risk of illnesses such as influenza, RSV, and other viral infections. As an infection prevention professional, now is the time to ensure that your teams, patients, and communities are ready. Reinforce your facility’s infection prevention plan, review respiratory hygiene protocols, and help others understand the critical role of everyday precautions in limiting the spread of respiratory illnesses. Take time to assess your facility’s readiness by ensuring that respiratory hygiene stations are well-stocked with masks for patient use, signage is visible, and staff are trained to recognize and respond to respiratory symptoms quickly. Foster open communication so everyone feels empowered to report concerns and follow prevention measures consistently. Encourage vaccination among staff and patients, as immunizations remain the most effective way…
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01Jul 2025 by Chelsea Song

TEST – Spot the Error

TEST
Educational Module: Spot the Errors-CAUTI and CLABSI Edition Learn the importance of CAUTI and CLABSI prevention through these immersive activities identifying possible sources of contamination. The accompanying presentations will educate and train the eye to connect common errors to infection risks. Practice these simulated experiences to enrich your facility with knowledge to drive down CAUTI and CLABSI rates. At the end of this module, participants will be able to:CAUTI Prevention: Identify common errors in urinary catheter maintenance by analyzing photos that highlight potential sources of contamination.CLABSI Prevention: Evaluate infection risks associated with central line maintenance through visual identification of common mistakes in simulated clinical scenarios.The Kentucky Infection Prevention (KyIP) Training Center, located in Louisville, Kentucky, has developed the following content. As a collaborator with the CDC’s Project Firstline, KyIP Training Center…
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25Jun 2025 by Chelsea Song
Keeping New Employees Safe and Healthy

Keeping New Employees Safe and Healthy

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It’s a busy time of year for employee health! Recent graduates from nursing and medical school are entering the field of healthcare. These folks bring energy, skill, and new potential to your healthcare team. But before they can jump into patient care, there is an essential stop the must make: Employee Health. Employee Health (EH) plays a critical role in onboarding safely and efficiently, ensuring that new staff are protected, cleared to work, and ready to join the healthcare team. Incomplete records or missed steps can delay start dates, create patient safety risks, or lead to gaps in care. In this newsletter, we break down what new hires will likely need to meet EH requirements—and how you can help set them up for success. Here’s what your new staff must…
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11Jun 2025 by Chelsea Song
How to Evaluate Medical Research as a Healthcare Professional

How to Evaluate Medical Research as a Healthcare Professional

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When nurses hear the word research, they often groan. They picture an array of test tubes or petri dishes and scientists hunched over microscopes. While those pictures can be accurate, we use research every day. All healthcare workers strive to use evidence-based care to provide the very best care to patients. Research is the bedrock of evidence-based practice. As the title implies, IPs strive to decrease the risk of infection and to prevent the transmission of infection to others.  IPs review the data and implement guidelines and interventions based upon the research. IPs and other healthcare workers must know how to review and appraise the research. It can be easy to feel overwhelmed with all of the information.  It is important to understand what was studied, how it was studied,…
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