This article describes the top factors that strongly linked to retention in the U.S. healthcare settings.

This article explores what drives IPs to leave their roles, using focus groups that include long-tenured IPs, those who transitioned roles, those who left the field, and IP leaders.

The APIC Research Network (ARN) is now live and free to join in 2025! ARN connects infection preventionists, organizations, and industry to advance IP-led research and implementation science. Join today to grow your research skills, collaborate, and shape the future of IPC.

The purpose of this implementation guide is to provide information and tools to reduce the risk of infection due to catheter-associated bloodstream infections in various adult practice settings. It condenses evidence-based guidelines into key elements needed to mitigate risks and implement performance improvement processes.

This implementation guide provides key tools and evidence-based strategies to reduce infection risks from indwelling urinary catheters. It condenses guidelines into actionable elements for risk mitigation and performance improvement, supporting policy and protocol development across practice settings.

The Impact of Health Disparities on HAIs: A Call to Action examines how SDOH and systemic inequities influence HAIs. Compiled by the APIC Health Equity Committee, it highlights key barriers, resource limitations, unconscious bias, and data challenges, while providing strategies to advance equity in infection prevention.

This resource helps long-term care facilities monitor infections and strengthen infection prevention and control strategies using data-driven approaches. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention defines surveillance as the ongoing collection, analysis, and use of data to guide infection prevention efforts.

Enhanced Barrier Precautions (EBP) are an effective infection control intervention used to reduce the transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in skilled long-term care nursing facilities. This practice guidance tool outlines when EBP should be implemented for residents, provides infection control recommendations for routine care activities, and includes case study examples with a self-quiz to help reinforce learning.

This tool was designed to provide Infection Prevention and Control resources to Infection Preventionists in Long-Term Care settings. These resources can be utilized to develop site-specific policies, plans, and procedures within the Long-Term Care setting.

This implementation guide provides key tools and evidence-based strategies to reduce infection risks from indwelling urinary catheters. It condenses guidelines into actionable elements for risk mitigation and performance improvement, supporting policy and protocol development across practice settings

This study evaluates how effective sodium hypochlorite is at inactivating spores from 18 Clostridioides difficile isolates collected from environmental surfaces in 10 U.S. hospitals.

This article responds to a letter to the editor by clarifying and discussing considerations related to defining an adequate sample size for monitoring hand hygiene adherence.

This article describes the top factors that strongly linked to retention in the U.S. healthcare settings.

This article explores what drives IPs to leave their roles, using focus groups that include long-tenured IPs, those who transitioned roles, those who left the field, and IP leaders.This tool was designed to provide Infection Prevention and Control resources to Infection Preventionists in Long-Term Care settings. These resources can be utilized to develop site-specific policies, plans, and procedures within the Long-Term Care setting.

This updated guidance outlines safe practices for injection, infusion, medication vials, and point-of-care testing, highlights recent outbreaks linked to unsafe practices, and offers new recommendations on contrast injections, ampules, drug diversion, and PPE use.

This article examines whether routinely using sporicidal disinfectants in all hospital rooms after patient discharge reduces environmental contamination with Clostridioides difficile spores.

APIC released its third research agenda in September 2024 through the Center for Research Practice and Innovation (CRPI). APIC developed and published research agendas in 2000, 2012, and 2024 to address numerous questions in the ever-evolving field of infection prevention and control. This commentary piece outlines APIC’s research priorities for 2025 and beyond.

This scoping review highlights how social factors like race, income, insurance, and disability contribute to disparities in healthcare-associated infections. It calls for better data, targeted prevention, and policy change.

This article examines how infection preventionists view and address health equity in preventing healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Based on focus groups with APIC members, key challenges include resource gaps, data limitations, social determinants of health, and unconscious bias. The study highlights the need for targeted tools, training, and partnerships to advance equitable infection prevention practices.

This commentary discusses how endoscopes have been an essential tool in modern medicine, used in over 250 million procedures yearly. To prevent infection and ensure patient safety, these reusable devices must be reprocessed according to the manufacturer’s instructions. Despite established guidelines, gaps in the science of endoscope reprocessing remain, highlighting the need for continued research and improved practices.

Can hospitals maintain high-quality hand hygiene data with fewer observations? This study explores how reducing monthly observations to as few as 50 per unit could streamline monitoring without compromising accuracy.

Infection prevention professionals are critical in addressing health inequities in health care. This study highlights key themes such as resource challenges, unconscious bias, and social determinants of health, providing valuable insights into advancing equitable care and reducing disparities in HAIs.

Discover how a novel calculator is reshaping infection prevention and control (IPC) staffing by using risk and complexity factors to generate individualized staffing ratios. Learn how this innovative approach aims to improve patient outcomes, optimize staffing, and address program complexities.

Infection Preventionists are experiencing staffing shortages, the purpose of this narrative review is to understand how healthcare organizations track staffing and outcome metrics in relation to Infection Preventionists.