APIC-VA Strategic Plan
APIC-VA: Strategic Priorities (Goals and Objectives)
Goal 1: Demonstrate and support effective infection and control as a key component of patient safety.
- Collaborate and align with key infection prevention and public health organizations, agencies and consumer groups to demonstrate and promote effective infection prevention programs.
- Define key processes of care that are shown to prevent infection.
- Develop framework to optimize partnership between physicians and IP’s as part of infection prevention programs.
- Create tools that integrate elements of the science of safety into infection prevention programs.
- Identify and assess measures that demonstrate the impact of infection prevention as part of patient safety.
Goal 2: Promote and facilitate the development and implementation of scientific research to prevent infection.
- Demonstrate the value of implementing the science of prevention to members.
- Identify gaps in the research agenda and address the gaps.
- Publish research in newspaper to aid in education.
- Collaborate with related disciplines and organizations in promoting implementation science research.
Goal 3: Define, develop, strengthen and sustain competencies of the IP across their career span and support board certification in infection prevention and control (CIC) to obtain universal adoption in the U.S. and Canada.
- Support APIC in the development of APIC IP competency model and program for the career span.
- Promote the value of CIC certification to key stakeholders, regulators, consumers and accreditors.
- Support APIC in creating advanced recognition programs for the IP who has achieved advanced/expert level of knowledge and skills.
Goal 4: Influence and facilitate legislative, accreditation and regulatory agenda for infection prevention with consumers, policy makers, health care leaders and personnel across the care continuum.
- Advance the development and adoption of meaningful use and measurable HAI reporting measures which minimizes collection burden.
- Support and advocate for resources that promote effective infection prevention and control efforts, programs and initiatives.
- Promote active IP participation and collaboration with organizational leadership of providers, consumer advocacy groups, and payers to enhance infection prevention and control on all levels and points of care.
- Identify pertinent regulatory and legislative issues through information provided by National Office, literature and medical reports.
- Monitor General Assembly activity for bills which impact our practice.
- Communicate urgent issues via email to the membership so that timely responses can be generated to legislators.
- Maintain visibility of APIC-VA with the legislature and communicate with legislators as appropriate.
Goal 5: Promote and advocate for standardized, quality and comparable HAI data.
- Support and participate in the strategic planning for advancing the description, collection and reporting of HAI data.
- Collaborate with government and private sector partners in initiatives supporting standardized and validated data for state reporting.
- Advocate for expansion and interoperability of the electronic medical record (EMR) and standardized extractible infection data elements for state reporting.