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Alert:Hospital Infection Control & Prevention now awards AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, but please be aware that the January and February 2018 issues do not offer that particular credit. Subscribers can still earn credits from more current issues or by rereading past issues that offer credit and taking the online test with a passing score.
Hospital Infection Control & Prevention is the most respected, award-winning source of news and commentary on preventing healthcare-associated infections. 2016 winner of Specialized Information Publishing Association's (SIPA) First-Place Awards for "Best Blog or Commentary" for HICprevent and "Best Health Care/Regulatory/Education Newsletter or Ezine [non-daily]
From A to Z – the first cases of AIDS in the early 1980s to the latest Zoonotic infections such as Zika, SARS, MERS and Ebola – Hospital Infection Control & Prevention has provided key insights and take-home tips from both leading authorities and grassroots practitioners. We alert and inform infection preventionists with peer-reviewed breaking news, in-depth analysis, and precise compliance information on the latest guidelines, accreditation standards, and state and federal regulations. Infection prevention programs are in the national spotlight as never before, as patient advocacy groups and federal agencies turn up the pressure to prevent healthcare associated infections.
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Faculty:
Physician Editor:
Patrick Joseph, MD
Chief of Epidemiology
San Ramon (CA) Regional Medical Center
President, California Infection Control Consultants.
Nurse Planner:
Patti Grant, RN, BSN, MS, CIC, FAPIC
Director, Infection Prevention/Quality
Methodist Hospital for Surgery
Addison, TX
Editorial Advisory Board:
Kay Ball, PhD, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAAN
Professor of Nursing
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH
Allison McGeer, MD
Professor
Dalla Lana School of Public Health
University of Toronto
Director, Infection Control
Microbiologist
Mount Sinai Hospital
Toronto
William Schaffner, MD
Chairman
Department of Preventive Medicine
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine
Nashville, TN
Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC
Director
Infection Prevention
Greenville Health System
Greenville, SC
Katherine West, BSN, MSEd, CIC
Infection Control Consultant
Infection Control/Emerging Concepts
Manassas, VA
Objectives:
Target Audience:
This activity is intended for infection preventionists, healthcare epidemiologists, and infectious disease physicians.
Accreditation and Credit Designation:
Relias LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Relias LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours [1.50] will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion. California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP#13791.
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 18 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.
Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (18 per year). Physicians should claim only credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Expiration:
This activity is in effect for 36 months from the date of the publication.
Instructions for Participation:
Physicians and nurses participate in this CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. After they have successfully completed the assessment, they will receive their credit letter. Participants will be asked to complete two activity evaluations annually.