Challenges and opportunities in recruiting, hiring and training infection preventionists across facility settings - 20/07/21
, Heather Gilmartin, PhD, NP, CIC, FAPIC b, c, Sarah Smathers, MPH, CIC, FAPIC dHighlight |
• | There was observed varibility between facility settings and educational requirements on job descriptions. |
• | Training resources for infection prevention professionals varied across facility settings. |
• | Optimizing recruitment and training best practices will result in a large and well trained infection prevention workforce. |
Résumé |
Background |
Recruitment of skilled professionals for the infection preventionist (IP) role is an ongoing priority for organizations. The objective of this study was to understand differences in recruitment, hiring and training by facility setting and discuss targeted strategies for diverse organizations.
Methods |
A survey study investigated recruitment, hiring and training practices for IPs and stratified by facility location (multi-location health system (MLHS), urban, suburban and rural), specifically pertaining to job description requirements, background of candidates interviewed and hired and training programs.
Results |
A Master's in Public Health degree was significantly more frequently listed on MLHS and urban facility job descriptions (37.3%, 43.7%, respectively) than suburban (27.4%) and rural facility job descriptions (17.2%)(P < .01). Respondents from MLHS (41.3%), urban facilities (47.0%), suburban facilities (41.7%) were more likely to interview public health professionals than rural facilities (20.3%, P = .003). Respondents from MLHS, (73.3%), urban (68.4%), and suburban (62.2%) facilities were significantly more likely to use local Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology chapter for training compared to rural facilities (32.4%)(P < .001).
Conclusions |
Our results identified differences in facility setting with recruitment, hiring and training practices. Optimizing recruitment and training best practices will result in a large and well trained IP workforce and patient safety.
Le texte complet de cet article est disponible en PDF.Key Words : Infection prevention recruitment, Infection prevention hiring, Infection prevention training
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| Disclaimer: The contents of this manuscript do not represent the views of the Department of Veterans Affairs or the United States Government. |
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| Funding Support: Dr. Gilmartin is supported by VHA Career Development Award IKHX002567 from the US Department of Veterans Affairs. |
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| Declaration of Competing Interests: None declared. |
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| Ethics approval: The Recruitment and Hiring Practices Survey in United States Infection Prevention and Control Departments was deemed Not Human Subject Research by the Colorado Multiple Institutional Review board (18-1799). |
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| Acknowledgements: We would like to thank the members of the APIC Research Committee and the Infection Preventionists who responded to the survey. |
Vol 49 - N° 8
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