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2025 has been a busy year for KyIP! Our team published 28 free CE modules on Continuing Education Library - Kentucky Infection Prevention Training Center, bringing the total to over 90 available courses! We hosted IP Boot Camp earlier this year, where over 350 were trained and over 1300 CE hours were claimed.Within KyIP, we’ve connected with over 200 healthcare staff members during in-person simulation training. Our team will complete the 17th Grand Rounds Session on 12/17. Employees from Norton Infectious Diseases and the Kentucky Department for Public Health presented via webinars discussing HIV, measles, and wastewater surveillance.Our team attended Infection Prevention Week at Owensboro Health, where they connected with nearly 200 healthcare workers. KyIP had over a dozen education consults, which led to the development of infection prevention training…

Respiratory illness season is in full swing and many states are seeing high levels of influenza, COVID-19, and RSV. The graph below shows the rates of hospitalizations associated with viral respiratory illnesses in the United States. https://www.cdc.gov/resp-net/dashboard/index.html While antibiotics are not effective for treating viral illnesses, they are nonetheless still prescribed in many cases. The use of antibiotics and other infection-fighting medications when not indicated have increased the rate of antimicrobial-resistant pathogens. In addition to the threat of antibiotic resistance, the use of antimicrobials increases costs and puts patients at risk of serious side effects. Antibiotics are used with the intention of killing a particular bacteria. The categories of prescribing include prophylactic, empiric, and therapeutic. Prophylactic antibiotics are used to prevent an infection. These are commonly used in patients who…