Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology, Inc. (CBIC®)

Eligibility Guidelines for the Long-Term Care Certification in Infection Prevention (LTC-CIP)

Successful long-term care infection prevention certification indicates competence in the practice of infection prevention and control within a long-term care setting. This includes:

  • Responsibility for the infection prevention and control programs/activities in a long-term care setting. Candidates will fill out an attestation form confirming this information.
  • Completed post-secondary education in a health-related field including but not limited to medicine, nursing, laboratory technology, public health, or biology.  Post-secondary includes public or private universities, colleges, community colleges etc. 

 CBIC recommends, but does not require, one year of full-time infection prevention experience prior to taking the LTC-CIP examination.

Candidates will be required to submit the following documentation with their application:

To be eligible to take the long-term care exam, it is recommended candidates meet the following guidelines:  

  1. Completed post-secondary education in a health-related field including but not limited to medicine, nursing degree/nursing diploma, laboratory technology, public health, or biology.  Post-secondary includes public or private universities, colleges, community colleges etc.      
  2. Responsibility for the infection prevention and control programs/activities in a long-term care setting.

     Infection prevention activities include:

  1. Identification of infectious disease processes
  • Including modes of transmission, signs and symptoms
  1. Surveillance and epidemiologic investigation
  • Including syndromic surveillance
  1. Preventing and controlling the transmission of infectious agents
  • Standard precautions and transmission-based precautions
  • Antibiotic stewardship
  1. Environment of care
    • Infection Prevention and Control serves as consultant in construction and renovation, environmental services, emergency management; and more
  2. Cleaning, disinfection, asepsis, and sterilization best practices
  • Evaluation of disinfection and sterilization processes
  • Collaboration or consultation with central sterile reprocessing department or outside vendors.

AND at least two (2) of the three (3) components:

  1. Employee / occupational health
  2. Management and communication
  3. Education and research

  1. Employee/occupational health
    1. Collaboration or consultation with employee/occupational health regarding the following:
      • Counseling employees after exposure to communicable diseases
      • Education of employees to reduce exposure to communicable diseases
      • Supervision, oversight, or management of the employee/occupational health department
  2. Management and communication
    1. Manage the infection control and prevention program/processes
    2. Supervise the infection control and prevention program/processes
  3. Education and research
    1. Provide educational instruction to  residents and/or staff about infection control and prevention circumstances
    2. Collaboration with any infection prevention and control investigations

Typical Job Titles that Fit the Long-Term Care Examination Requirements:

On the list below are some job titles that may fit the long-term care examination requirements: Note that these are examples and not a comprehensive list. 

  • Infection Preventionist
  • Infection Prevention and Control Practitioner/Professional (ICP)
  • Infection Control Nurse
  • RN Infection Preventionist
  • Epidemiologist (e.g. Hospital, Public Health or HAI epidemiologist)
  • Research Analyst (Infection Prevention Control/Epidemiology related)
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