Consulting

IP&MA staff take a flexible approach to consulting services, offering them in the way that best fits your needs. We provide both on-site and remote consulting services, on a short or long-term basis. Virtual consultations may be combined with on-site evaluations at the request of the facility.

Our experienced infection preventionists are able to Assess, Identify, Assist & Sustain.

Assess your organization’s infection prevention and control program activities to determine issues, priorities and potential opportunities for intervention and improvement

  • Including surveillance activities, employee health, education, regulatory compliance, job descriptions, evaluation tools and report forms, process observations, and stakeholder discussions

Identify high risk areas and develop a set of prevention strategies.

  • Evaluate high risk care processes such as high-level disinfection, sterilization, dialysis or laundry management 

  • Review all departmental policies related to infection control 

  • Evaluate, revise or create required documents, such as risk assessment, exposure control plans and waterborne pathogen management plans 

  • Mentor new infection control personnel 

  • Assist with outbreaks or other infection control related occurrences 

  • Collaboratively work with your team members to create competency evaluations associated with infection prevention practices

Assist with the development of infection prevention plans and program activities

  • OSHA bloodborne pathogen and and tuberculosis exposure control plans

  • Isolation and transmission control

  • Disease or service line specific concerns

Sustain through education, training and process monitoring

  • Evaluate, revise or create required documents, such as risk assessment, exposure control plans and waterborne pathogen management plans 

  • Mentor new infection control personnel 

  • Collaboratively work with your team members to create competency evaluations associated with infection prevention practices

  • provide education to infection prevention team and clinical staff

  • performance improvement and change management support