Tough Bug Toolkits

This bundle equips infection prevention professionals with practical strategies to address resistant organisms, emerging pathogens, and complex transmission challenges. Sessions cover infection control considerations across diverse populations—including pediatrics—and explore preparedness for novel viral threats with pandemic potential. Participants will gain insight into evolving treatment options, frontline approaches to containing pathogens like Candida auris, and ongoing debates around the healthcare environment’s role in transmission. The bundle also strengthens core skills in education and communication, empowering professionals to effectively translate best practices into action and improve infection prevention outcomes in high-risk scenarios.
 

Sessions Included:

  1. Infection Control Considerations for Resistant and Emerging Pathogens
  2. Tiny Hosts and Tough Bugs: MDROs in Pediatrics
  3. Approach to Novel Viral Pathogens with Pandemic Potential
  4. Tough Bugs and New Drugs
  5. Preventing C. auris Transmission: Strategies from the Front Lines
  6. Approaches & Controversies to the Environment of Care
  7. Maximizing Your Effectiveness as an Educator in Infection Prevention
Course summary
Course opens: 
07/01/2026
Course expires: 
12/31/2026
Member cost:
$70.00
Cost:
$91.00
Part of: 
SHEA Spring 2026 Bundles
Infection Control Considerations for Resistant and Emerging Pathogens
  • Introduction             
  •  Approaches to Preventing Transmission of MDROs  -  Maroya  Walters    MS;PHD
  •  The Evolution of Contact Precautions  -  Michelle  Doll    MD;MPH
  • Q+A Panel        
Tiny Hosts and Tough Bugs: MDROs in Pediatrics
  • Introduction             
  • Let’s Talk Epi and Containment: CRE and C. auris in Pediatrics  - Latania   Logan    MD, MSPH
  • From Detection to Discharge: Optimizing MDRO Screening and Inter-Facility Communication in Pediatrics    Tom    Murray    MD PhD
  • Q+A Panel    
Approach to Novel Viral Pathogens with Pandemic Potential
  • Introduction             
  • Interactive Case Study 1: Rapid Recognition and Management of Infectious Disease of Public Health Importance - Brooke  Brewer    BSN, MS, CIC
  •  Interactive Case Study 2: Introduction to Incident Command - Sharon  Vanairsdale Carrasco    DNP
Tough Bugs and New Drugs
  • Introduction             
  • Tough Bugs and New Drugs  - Jason  Pogue    PharmD
  • Q+A            
Preventing C. auris Transmission: Strategies from the Front Lines
  • Facilitator Introduction            
  • Case Presentation  -  Michelle  Doll    MD;MPH
  • Small Group Discussion            
  • Large Group Discussion            
  • Case Presentation  -  Anurag  Malani    MD
  • Small Group Discussion            
  • Large Group Discussion            
  • Case Presentation  - Maureen  Bolon    MD
  • Small Group Discussion            
  • Large Group Discussion    
Approaches & Controversies to the Environment of Care
  • Introduction             
  • Pipes, Pathogens, and Patients: Plumbing’s Hidden Role in Hospital Infections  - Dan  Uslan    MD, MBA
  • Water Testing and Drain Disinfection  - Curtis  Donskey    MD
  • The Time Has Come for Water-Free ICUs - Shardul  Rathod    MPH, CIC
  • Q+A Panel
Maximizing Your Effectiveness as an Educator in Infection Prevention
  • Introduction             
  • Maximizing Your Effectiveness as an Educator in Infection Prevention - Thomas  Sandora    MD, MPH
  • Challenges and Opportunities for IPs as Clinical Educators - Sarah  Smathers    MPH

Price

Member cost:
$70.00
Cost:
$91.00
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