Quality Improvement: From Principles to Practice

Description

This is a two-part course designed to equip Infection Preventionists, Healthcare Epidemiologists, physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians, and pharmacists with foundational quality improvement (QI) principles, methodologies, and tools that enhance their ability to drive meaningful change. Participants will learn how to apply QI strategies to infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and diagnostic stewardship initiatives, leverage human factors engineering for safer processes, and collaborate effectively with QI, patient safety teams and other frontline clinicians and team members within their organizations. Through interactive sessions and case-based examples, learners will gain practical skills to improve outcomes and strengthen interdisciplinary partnerships.
 
Webinars in this course:
 
  • Principles & Methods to Drive Meaningful Change | August 5, 2026 @ 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET
  • Quality Improvement Principles in Practice | August 17, 2026 @ 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET
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Target Audience

  • Infection preventionists
  • Hospital epidemiologists
  • Pharmacists
  • Clinicians
  • Trainees
  • Hospital leadership
  • Nurses

Learning Objectives

After participating in this activity, learners will be able to:
 
  1. Explain the role of QI in healthcare, its impact on infection prevention, antimicrobial stewardship, and diagnostic stewardship, and how QI differs from research.
  2. Apply QI methodologies to design and evaluate interventions aimed at improving infection prevention practices, antimicrobial and diagnostic stewardship efforts, and patient outcomes.
  3. Collaborate effectively with QI and safety professionals as well frontline healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians and pharmacists, to translate QI concepts into actionable strategies to enhance organizational performance and patient care.

 

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Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 2.00 ABIM MOC
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Nursing Contact Hours
  • 2.00 Participation
Course opens: 
07/23/2026
Course expires: 
07/23/2029
Member cost:
$15.00
Cost:
$40.00

Webinars in this course:

 

Principles & Methods to Drive Meaningful Change

August 5, 2026 @ 3:00 - 4:00 pm ET

This webinar will introduce Infection Preventionists, Healthcare Epidemiologists, frontline physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians, and pharmacists to foundational quality improvement (QI) and human factors engineering (HFE) principles, methodologies, and tools that enhance their ability to drive meaningful change. Participants will learn how to apply QI strategies to infection prevention initiatives and antimicrobial stewardship, leverage human factors engineering for safer processes, and collaborate effectively with QI and patient safety teams as well as other healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians and pharmacists, within their organizations.
 
Speakers:
James Davis
Joshua Schaffzin
 
Learning Objectives
  1. Introduce and explain the role of HFE and QI in healthcare and their impact on infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship.
  2. Identify key HFE and QI methodologies used to assess systems and design and evaluate interventions.
  3. Identify strategies around how to effectively collaborate with QI and safety professionals as well as other healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians and pharmacists, to translate HFE and QI concepts to improve patient care or outcomes.
 

Quality Improvement Principles in Practice

August 17, 2026 @ 3:30 - 4:30 pm ET

Through interactive sessions and case-based examples, learners will gain practical skills in how to use quality improvement principles, methods and tools to improve outcomes and strengthen interdisciplinary partnerships.
 
Speakers:
Karen Jones
Ayelet Rosenthal
Allie Shaw
 
Learning Objectives
  1. Identify key QI methodologies to design and evaluate interventions based on real-world examples.
  2. Apply approaches to effectively collaborate with QI and safety professionals as well as other healthcare professionals, including physicians, nurses, advanced practice clinicians and pharmacists, to translate QI concepts into actionable strategies to enhance organizational performance.
In accordance with the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education's (ACCME) Standard for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, all faculty and planning partners must disclose all financial relationship(s) with any ineligible company within the prior 24 months for any amount. SHEA identifies and mitigates all conflict of interest prior to delivering the educational activity to learners. 
 

Planners:

Jessica Howard-Anderson, MD, MSc
Emory University School of Medicine
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
Saranya Seetharaman, MBBS, MPH, CIC
Brigham & Women’s Hospital
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
E. Yoko Furuya, MD, MS, FSHEA 
Columbia University Irving Medical Center 
No relevant financial relationships to disclose
 
 
SHEA's 2026 LearningCE Program Committee assisted with the development of this program. You can view the 2025 LearningCE Program Committee Roster and Disclosures.

Accreditation Statements 

In support of improving patient care, The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

PHYSICIANS: 

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America designates this activity for a maximum of 3.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

 

ABIM MOC Recognition Statement

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 3.00 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to Joint Accreditation for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

 

By submitting a claim for ABIM MOC, you hereby give SHEA permission to share individual physician participation information with ABIM through JA PARS.

NURSES:

The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America designates this live activity for a maximum of 3.00 CNE credit. Nurses should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Available Credit

  • 2.00 ABIM MOC
  • 2.00 ACPE Pharmacy
  • 2.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 2.00 Nursing Contact Hours
  • 2.00 Participation
 
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