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Course Information

Essentials of Infection Prevention™ (EIP)

Upcoming Courses

  • Open
    Essentials of Infection Prevention for Healthcare Workers

EIP is a self-directed, knowledge review and assessment program featuring case scenarios. Purchase the entire course or each module individually: 

All modules (Essentials of Infection PreventionTM)

 

Individual modules 

  • Construction and renovation 
  • Environmental infection control 
  • Hand hygiene 
  • Management of occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens 
  • Multidrug-resistant organisms 
  • Personal protective equipment 
  • Precautions to prevent the transmission of infectious agents 
  • Protective environment 
  • Rationale for standard and transmission-based precautions 
  • Safe practices for prevention of bloodborne pathogen exposure 
  • Transmission risks of healthcare settings 

Returning students –

Please follow the steps below to return to your course.

Step 1:
Log in to APIC.org using the green “Sign in” button at the top of the homepage.
 
Step 2:
Visit www.apic.org/anywhere to see the list of online courses. Click the course you wish to return to.

Step 3:
On the course information page, click the green button in the middle of the page titled "Return to course"**. Click that button to pass through to your courses.

**Note: if the button is orange and reads “register” instead of  green reading “return to course” please sign in to the site using step 1 above.


Length:
11 modules total (approximately 15-30 minutes to complete each module)

Cost:
Per module: $20 member/$30 non-member

Entire series: $99 member/$149 non-member

Nursing contact hours: 7

How do I get contact hours?

To receive contact hours for an online course, you must complete the program in its entirety and complete an online evaluation. Your feedback is not only required by the accrediting organization, but it is vital to development of future programming.

How do I meet requirements to evaluate the program?

Complete the online evaluation from your computer immediately upon completion of the course by using the course survey link provided in the training menu. Once the online evaluation is complete, you will be eligible to obtain your contact hours via the certificate of completion. 

  • Windows XP, Vista
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.5 (6.0 or higher recommended)
  • Sound card with speakers
  • Microsoft Windows Media Player 7.0 or later—allows users to download and run multimedia audio and video files from the web
  • Plug-ins:
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader 6.0
  • Adobe Flash Player 7.0

Technical support:

Anywhere@apic.org

Financial assistance for the development of APIC ANYWHERE®  has been provided in the form of unrestricted educational grants by the following companies:

Founding Supporter

Ecolab

 

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