Long-term care health professionals – including clinicians, infection preventionists, nurses, pharmacists, and quality improvement teams – are invited to use this training series to build their capacity to establish and maintain robust antibiotic stewardship programs. Multidisciplinary subject matter experts apply stewardship best practice recommendations and improvement strategies by presenting case studies, demonstrating the use of new and existing templates and answering frequently asked questions.

Access the recorded webinars and slides.

Subject matter expert presenters include:

• Sarah Kabbani, MD, MSc
  Director, Office of Antibiotic Stewardship | Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

• Steven J. Schweon, RN, MPH, MSN, CIC, LTC-CIP, CPHQ, FSHEA, FAPIC
  Infection Preventionist | Steven J. Schweon LLC

• Galina Shteyman, PharmD, RPH, BCPS, BCIDP
  Antimicrobial Stewardship Consultant Pharmacist | Minnesota Department of Health

• Christopher J. Crnich, MD, PhD
  Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases | University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™

• Participants can opt to receive certificates of attendance and/or continuing medical education (CME) credits for each session after completing a short evaluation. Note: evaluations must be completed by June 30, 2025, for CME credit.
• See the speaker disclosure statement and access recorded webinars and slides. 

Supplemental resource

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The Basics: Hand Hygiene in the Long-Term Care Setting

This training is intended to provide basic hand hygiene education for long-term care frontline staff in an interactive format including demonstrations, activities, and discussion. It is designed to be facilitated by the facility’s infection prevention leader(s). Upon completion of this training, participants should be able to:

1. Identify the important moments for hand hygiene in the long-term care setting.
2. Differentiate when alcohol-based hand sanitizer is preferred and when soap and water is preferred for hand hygiene.
3. Demonstrate proper hand hygiene technique.
4. Identify strategies to promote a positive hand hygiene culture.

Watch the training video here.
Download the slides: The basics: Hand hygiene in the long-term care setting (PPT, 20MB)
Download the facilitator guide (PDF, 2MB)

This toolkit incorporates continuous improvement principles intended to help new infection preventionists (IPs) develop data-driven risk assessments that inform infection prevention and control (IPC) program activities. The content within the text will guide you on how to identify IPC areas of strength, areas where opportunities for improvement exist, and areas where data are missing.

Access the Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit for Long-Term Care Settings.

Transmission-based precautions training kit

This training is intended to provide basic transmission-based precautions education for long-term care frontline staff in an interactive format including demonstrations and activities. It is designed to be facilitated by the facility’s infection prevention leader(s). Upon completion of this training, participants should be able to:

1. Demonstrate proper technique for donning and doffing personal protective equipment (PPE)
2. Describe the different types of transmission-based precautions.
3. Determine what PPE is appropriate based on the type of transmission-based precautions in place.
4. Apply transmission-based precautions knowledge to long-term care situations.

Watch the training video here.

Download the slides: The basics: Transmission-based precautions in the long-term care setting

Download the facilitator guide

Take the quiz