The AHCA/NCAL Infection Preventionist Specialized
Training (IPCO) course is getting rave reviews from those who
have completed the course. "The IPCO training was
fantastic, very informative, easy to use and organized. I definitely recommend
this product for all IPCO, DON and ADON,” says Jesalyn Garcia with Holly Heights
Nursing Center.
Jesalyn isn’t the only IPCO fan. A solid 97
percent of health care professionals who have completed the AHCA/NCAL Infection Preventionist Specialized
Training (IPCO) course thus far recommend that their colleagues take
the course if they are interested in learning more about infection prevention
and control and antibiotic stewardship. That’s because the AHCA/NCAL course delivers!
The on-line course provides
education for healthcare professionals who seek to serve as Infection
Preventionists and prepares individuals to meet the antibiotic stewardship
requirements that took effect for nursing facilities on November 28, 2017. The
training is also beneficial for assisted living centers because the methods for
preventing and controlling infections are universal and apply regardless of
setting.
The Infection Preventionist Specialized
Training (IPCO) course provides education for all healthcare
professionals who want to lead infection prevention efforts and prepares
individuals to play an active role in the antibiotic stewardship efforts. Antibiotic
stewardship is an overarching goal and priority among all health care
professionals and is receiving a lot of attention from state and federal health
care regulators.
AHCA/NCAL’s course is an online,
self-study program with 23 hours of training. It includes online lectures, case
studies and interactive components taught by subject matter experts who have
real life experience working in long term/post-acute care.
The course addresses
both clinical and organizational systems, processes and cultural aspects of
infection prevention and control that are fundamental to effectively leading
and administering successful infection prevention and control programs and
antibiotic stewardship programs. Strong and effective infection prevention
programs and antibiotic stewardship efforts can set nursing facilities and assisted
living centers apart from the competition, especially when working with social
workers and discharge planners who help seniors with their post-acute decisions
The training course registration fee is $450 for AHCA/NCAL
members and $650 for non-members. There are no refunds and no transfers.
Payment and registration must be made online in ahcancalED. The IPCO course can be accessed here or at: https://educate.ahcancal.org/p/ipco.
Discounted group
purchase rates are available for groups of 25 or more. Those interested in
making a group purchase should email AHCA at educate@ahca.org.
While CMS has
announced plans to offer a free infection prevention training course some time
in Spring 2019, AHCA/NCAL recommends investing in staff training now rather
than waiting at least another year to train staff on the requirements that
already are in effect. Despite the recent CMS training announcement, nursing
facilities will continue to be surveyed on all the new infection prevention and
control requirements and the antibiotic stewardship requirements – the same
requirements leading to the most commonly cited F-Tag since November 2017 under
Phase I and Phase II of the CMS Requirements of Participation and the
implementation of the new nursing facility survey process.
To access ahcancalED
and the IPCO course, members
will need to login with their AHCA/NCAL usernames and passwords. For assistance
obtaining AHCA/NCAL usernames and passwords, please e-mail update@ahca.org with your name and facility
contact information.
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