Programs | A Call to Action: Advancing Appropriate Antimicrobial Use and Infection Prevention through Partnership and Shared Knowledge

A series of 6 performance improvement continuing education programs focused on key determinants of antimicrobial resistance in hospitals.

Resistant strains of microbes seem to be winning the game – and largely with our help. We contribute to and collaborate with the adversary’s efforts every day by the way we misuse antibiotics, the way we disregard simple infection control practices, the way we fail to collaborate around critical defensive strategies.  In fact, of the myriad of issues related to the emergence and spread of resistance in hospitals, many are linked to poor knowledge and human behavior.  Understanding the factors pivotal to the development of resistance and executing more integrated, consistent, and effective strategies and tactics are important—indeed indispensable—parts of combating resistance.

Combating bacterial resistance must be a multidisciplinary effort. All clinicians play a pivotal role because of their close physical proximity to patients and the possibility of carrying the germs on their skin or clothes, but also because they prescribe and administer antibiotics. Building a consensus among all clinicians and staff is critical.  To make important strides, the breadth, depth, and quality of information and strategies must rise above the din and strike a responsive chord throughout your organization.

A Call to Action: Advancing Appropriate Antimicrobial Use and Infection Prevention through Partnership and Shared Knowledge is designed to build strategy-critical competencies to curb further emergence of resistance.  This continuing education series allows you to learn with some of the nation’s leading subject experts, exchange ideas and experiences, and build the intellectual capital to change the tide of resistance.  Internationally recognized thought leaders from academic and clinical settings will provide deep insights into emerging resistance trends, cultivate new ideas to contain escalating resistance, and present disruptive innovation strategies.

This complimentary, cogently presented continuing education series is delivered in six focused programs – following the straight and narrow of critical determinants of resistance – and provides a broad knowledge base for all physicians, hospital clinicians and staff.   Process-reinforcing tactics and strategies, and ideas for cycles of change provide ‘road maps” to accelerate improvement in your organization.  As change is fluid, program participates can also take part in a web-based community that fosters ongoing learning and the diffusion of innovations in organizational and clinical improvement.  The next move is yours!

Grateful acknowledgement is extended to Astellas, Pfizer, and Wyeth for their educational grants supporting this activity.