Prevention Strategist

Translate science into practice with Prevention Strategist, APIC’s signature magazine. This quarterly publication provides members with evidence-based strategies and practical guidance from leading experts to help prevent infection.

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  Prevention Strategist—Spring 2013

  2/26/2013

  Cover story: Clostridium difficile—A multifaceted approach to prevention. 

  Highlights:

  • Dr. Nathan Wolfe, world-renowned viral forecaster and epidemiologist, to headline APIC 2013 as keynote speaker.
  • A program designed to break through the boundaries of hospital administration allows the clinical lab and IP to leverage the strengths of each department.
  • A microbiological overview of specific natural properties of bacteria that proliferate and result in infection—under the right conditions.
  • Stellenbosch University in Cape Town, South Africa is improving patient outcomes via a new model of infection prevention education within its resource-limited country. 

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  Prevention Strategist—Winter 2012

  12/3/2012

   Cover story: APIC celebrates 40 years of growth and progress. Open access

  Highlights:

  • Point/counterpoint: Two different perspectives are shared about contact precautions.
  • Fact or opinion: How to tell if a speaker’s presentation is based on solid clinical evidence. 
  • APIC chapters share photo highlights from the 2012 International Infection Prevention Week celebration.
  • Contaminated IV fluids are a major public health concern for hospitalized children in Mexico. 

   

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  Prevention Strategist—Fall 2012

  9/19/2012

  Cover stories:

  Preventing CAUTI: A patient-centered approach – Open access

  The new VAE definition: A paradigm shift for infection preventionists 

  Highlights:

  • An infection prevention and environmental services collaboration has dramatically reduced infections.  
  • An infection preventionist shares her family’s experience with healthcare-associated infections. Open access
  • The new NHSN Healthcare Personnel Influenza Vaccination Measure: What you need to know Open access
  • Create an infection prevention movement through International Infection Prevention Week. Open access

   

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  Prevention Strategist—Summer 2012

  5/21/2012

  Cover story: APIC’s new IP Competency Model helps infection preventionists design a plan for professional development. Open access.
  
  Highlights:

  • Infection preventionists have a role in accelerating progress toward preventing the emergence and cross-transmission of MDROs. Open access.
  • An Infection Prevention and Control department in Saudi Arabia serves as a global model for infection prevention excellence. 
  • A psychiatric hospital tackled the challenges of a norovirus outbreak through collaboration.
  • Leaders in infection prevention and environmental services work together to improve patient outcomes.

   

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  Prevention Strategist—Spring 2012

  3/19/2012

  Cover story: Over the next eight years, APIC Strategic Plan 2020 will accelerate progress toward the elimination of healthcare-associated infections.
  
  Highlights:

  • APIC joins with the World Health Organization to strengthen infection prevention preparedness for, and response to, epidemic infectious disease.
  • When the CEO of Novant Health set out to change the culture surrounding hand hygiene, he had one goal – saving lives.
  • APIC’s newest collaboration builds a bridge between infection preventionists and laboratory professionals. 
  • An infection preventionist leads a successful campaign to reduce ventilator-associated pneumonia, central line-associated bloodstream infections, and other life-threatening infections.

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  Prevention Strategist—Winter 2011

  1/1/2012

  Cover story: Success through implementation science: Reducing HAIs in the ICU – When combined with a strong performance improvement model, implementation science offers expanded methods to drive meaningful change.

  Highlights:

  • Pennsylvania HAI Prevention collaboratives cultivate creative ways to pursue infection reductions and improve patient safety.

  • International infection prevention ambassadors face unique circumstances, but they have one common goal – to prevent infections in their regions.

  • The International Infection Prevention Week policy summit explores necessary infection prevention resources and the impact of healthcare reform efforts in boosting patient safety.

  • A nurse-driven protocol, steered by an infection preventionist, reduces UTI hazards in a Pennsylvania hospital system.

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  Prevention Strategist—Fall 2011

  11/1/2011

  Cover story: An APIC member’s outbreak investigation prompted an international product recall of non-sterile alcohol prep pads. 
  
  Highlights:

  • The president and CEO of an Atlanta children’s hospital champions infection prevention initiatives – with impressive results.
  • Technology and remarkable patient outcomes, not infections, should remain the focus in interventional settings.
  • A Georgia army hospital makes gains in the battle against infection.
  • A Philippines doctor has created a safe haven for pediatric cancer patients and their families.
  • APIC chapter legislative representatives take their expertise to policymakers: Action in four states.

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  Prevention Strategist—Summer 2011

  7/1/2011

  Cover story: While CLABSI rates have been declining in the U.S., new studies suggest that an expanded approach may be necessary to achieve even greater success.
  
  Highlights:

  • The HAI consumer awareness movement is effecting change in the infection prevention profession, making transparency of quality healthcare a priority for all.
  • Understand how to use national momentum to accelerate action and engage leadership.(Column from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital created an international training model that has inspired many to achieve what was once perceived as impossible: preventing infections in resource-limited countries.
  • New Orleans’ Northshore hospitals collaborate to prevent and treat surgical site infections.
  • The new consensus surrounding sterilization: Understanding the shift from “flash” sterilization to “immediate-use” sterilization.

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  Prevention Strategist—Spring 2011

  4/1/2011

  Cover story: Understanding the hospital readmission problem can produce a successful transition from hospital to home.
  
  Highlights:

  • As new and intensified demands are placed on IPs, there is a rapidly escalating need to apply research and influence evidence-based changes via implementation science.
  • Dr. Brahm Marjadi’s seven-month trek across rural Indonesia helped improve infection prevention standards in his region.
  • Connecticut Children’s Medical Central lowers infection rates by elevating infection prevention to an institution-wide initiative.
  • A Georgia hospital’s “amazing” NICU initiatives are keeping premature babies healthy and safe, while raising the bar in infection prevention.

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