Certified Infection Control and Prevention

📘Program Overview

The Certified Infection Control and Prevention (CICP) program equips healthcare professionals with the knowledge and competencies required to design, implement, and sustain effective infection prevention programs that protect patients, staff, and visitors.

The program raises awareness of gaps in infection-control performance metrics among frontline staff, builds an understanding of how surveillance data are collected to establish clinical credibility, and clarifies each professional's role in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs).

Through structured competencies aligned with a culture of safety, participants develop clear goals and objectives for HAI prevention by following identified safe practices.

🎯Program Rationale

• HAIs remain a leading, largely preventable threat to patient safety worldwide.
• Effective infection prevention depends on frontline awareness and data literacy.
• Improvement initiatives succeed only when staff understand the 'why' behind safe practices.
• Certification provides a recognized standard of infection-prevention competency.

👥Target Audience

• Infection prevention and control practitioners
• Nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals
• Quality and patient safety teams
• Sterilization and environmental services staff
• Public health and epidemiology professionals

✅Program Objectives

• Establish and lead a structured infection prevention program.
• Apply principles of epidemiology and surveillance to detect and control infections.
• Implement standard and transmission-based precautions consistently.
• Use statistical and quality tools to monitor infection-prevention performance.
• Meet accreditation and regulatory requirements for infection control.

🏆Learning Outcomes

• Conduct surveillance and outbreak investigations.
• Apply control charts and risk-adjusted comparisons to infection data.
• Implement hand hygiene, aseptic technique, and isolation precautions.
• Lead prevention bundles for device- and procedure-associated infections.
• Promote a sustainable culture of safety around infection prevention.

📚Program Structure

• Module 1: Infection Prevention Programs & Competency
• Overview of infection prevention programs
• Competency and certification of the infection preventionist
• Education and training
• Accrediting and regulatory agencies
• Behavioral interventions
• Healthcare informatics and information technology
• Module 2: Epidemiology, Surveillance & Patient Safety
• General principles of epidemiology
• Surveillance methods
• Outbreak investigations
• Use of statistics in infection prevention
• Process control charts and risk-adjusted comparisons
• Quality concepts, performance measures, and patient safety
• Module 3: Microbiology & Transmission Risk
• Risk factors for transmission
• Microbial pathogenicity and host response
• The immunocompromised host
• Microbiology basics
• Antimicrobials and resistance
• Module 4: Basic Principles of Infection Prevention
• Hand hygiene
• Standard precautions
• Isolation (transmission-based) precautions
• Aseptic technique
• Cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization
• Reprocessing of single-use devices
• Module 5: Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Urinary tract infections
• Intravascular device infections
• Infections in indwelling medical devices
• Pneumonia
• Surgical site infections

📝Assessment & Certification

• Module knowledge checks
• Surveillance data exercise
• Case-based outbreak analysis
• Final comprehensive examination

🚀Capstone / Practical Project

Develop an infection-prevention improvement plan for a target HAI, including a surveillance method, a prevention bundle, and a monitoring dashboard.

🏥Organizational Impact

• Lower rates of healthcare-associated infections
• Stronger surveillance and early outbreak detection
• Improved compliance with precautions and bundles
• Greater accreditation and audit readiness

📈Career Pathway

• Infection Preventionist
• Infection Control Officer
• Quality & Safety Specialist
• Epidemiology Support Officer

Exam Fee: $495  ·  Study Material: $195