Chapter Projects

Overview: The SFBA APIC Chapter has undertaken a number of exciting projects over the years including The IP Exchange Program, The Dialysis Collaborative project, The Ambulatory Surgery Center Collaborative project and others.   

2022 Chapter Projects:

IP Pipeline
Skilled Nursing Facility/Long-Term Care Facility IP Membership Drive


New IP Training Guide Project:

IP Training Guide

Overview: This document is designed to support new IPs during the first ten weeks on the job, as an adjunct to the APIC Roadmap for Novice IPs.  The content of this document reflects many professional resources including the APIC IP Competency Model, the SHEA Compendium of HAI Prevention and Control and the CDC HAI Prevention Guidelines. 

IP Training Guide

 Appendices 

Evaluation Tool IP Preceptor Guide

Linen Service Inspection

IC Committee Topic Tracker

CSF Findings in Meningitis

 APIC Novice Roadmap_2016

Total Hip SSI Line List - Blank

Video Library

APIC Safe Injection Practices 2016

 

Environmental Services Project:

Playbook SFBA APIC EVS Project 2018 

The San Francisco Chapter of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) agreed to focus on optimization of EVS programs as the annual project in 2016.  The project objective was to support reliable design (standardization of evidence-based practices) for environmental cleaning and disinfection in local hospitals to reduce the risk of HAI (healthcare associated infection).  The approach taken was to identify 10 key elements of a successful EVS program and build an improvement project around those. The elements were drawn from evidence-based materials provided by the Association for the Healthcare Environment (AHE) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).  Two hospitals volunteered to participate in the project, and Contec was identified as the sponsor. The project plan and timeline were guided by a self-assessment performed by the EVS Manager at each of two local hospitals. The project concluded with creation of a Playbook to enable replication of the project by APIC chapters and/or individual hospitals or hospital systems.

Project Charter

Project Notes:

June 6, 2017

July 11, 2017