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APIC Strategic Plan 2020
American Journal of Infection Control 40 (2012) pp. 391
Over the next eight years, APIC strategic plan 2020 will accelerate progress toward the elimination of health care associated infections (HAIs). Developed by the APIC Board of Directors in collaboration with APIC members and other stakeholders in infection prevention, the plan, published in the May 2012 issue of this journal and available on the APIC Web site, now serves as our road map.
APIC was instrumental in leading efforts toward the elimination of HAIs through its Targeting Zero campaign. APIC Strategic Plan 2020 builds on the spirit of APIC's ongoing history of leading the field's efforts to strive for zero HAIs. Background information on efforts to target zero HAIs can be found under the "About APIC" and "Vision and mission" sections of the APIC Web site located at www.apic.org.
The health care system has reached a critical juncture between patient safety, infection prevention, and quality of care. Significant changes in where care is and where it will be delivered are central issues. These changes represent an unprecedented opportunity for infection preventionist (IPs) to accelerate progress toward the elimination of HAIs. APIC leaders believe this is the right time to commit to an uncompromising vision and organize the association's mission and goals around a plan to advance toward health are without infection. We propose to advance our mission to create a safer world through prevention of infection and embrace this bold direction through five strategic goals.
Patient safety goal: Demonstrate and support effective infection prevention and control as a key component of patient safety.
Implementation science goal: Promote and facilitate the development and implementation of scientific research to prevent infection.
IP competencies and certification goal: Define, develop, strengthen, and sustain competencies of the IP across the career span and support board certification in infection prevention and control (CIC) to obtain widespread adoption.
Advocacy goal: Influence and facilitate legislate, accreditation, and regulatory agenda for infection prevention with consumers, policy-makers, health care leaders, and personnel across the care continuum.
Data standardization goal: Promote and advocate for standardized, quality, and comparable HAI data.
How APIC Chose This Vision and Course of Action
Strategic Conversation with APIC members, the board, and key leader focus groups at the APIC 2011 Annual Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, resulted in the following change drivers being identified that together create a tipping point for infection prevention:
- The future of health care focused on prevention and cost control;
- the integration of evidence and outcome-based researach;
- anticipating and influencing regulatory change;
- the empowered consumer's demand for transparency, safety, and accountability;
- an automated future for data collection and risk assessment; and
- a global interconnected world encourages collaboration.
APIC recognizes that these challenges will require the IP to become a new kind of leader - a collaborative leader who can engage people and groups to work toward common goals that eclipse their traditional roles, disciplines, and past experiences. In the spirit of collaborative leadership, the APIC board invited the association's strategic partners and kep opinion leaders to join together in exploring new directions for the profession. They met together September 19-20, 2011, in Alexandria, Virginia, to discuss the opportunities and desired outcomes for 2020. On September 21, 2011, the APIC board analyzed this guidance and considered the association's strengths resulting in unanimous agreement to adopt this bold vision and to set a course through strategic goals to drive the association's efforts over the next eight years (2012 through 2019).
APIC leaders and staff will work with members across the organization and will collaborate with others to achieve these strategic goals. You are invited to join us in every step of this journey toward health care without infection.
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