Wondering what a "typical" infection prevention and control professional looks like? The following is a profile based on responses from CBIC's 2014 Practice Analysis survey. The complete practice analysis summary can be found here.
The mission of CBIC is to protect the public through the development, administration, and promotion of an accredited certification in infection prevention and control. CBIC maintains and promotes professional certification of the highest quality through the accomplishment of key objectives. With this mission in mind, CBIC has set a challenging goal of attaining 840 net new certificants each year in its strategic plan. You can help us and your profession by encouraging your colleagues, employees, members and other Infection Prevention and Control Professionals to become certified. You can find ways to show your support and encourage certification below:
Many Infection Prevention and Control Professionals have inquired about being mentored before taking their CIC® examination. While CBIC does not offer a mentorship program at this time for non-certified individuals, we encourage others to mentor colleagues or even start a mentorship program within your chapter or organization. You can also learn from others by setting up study groups with fellow candidates studying for their certification examination. Read about how to set up a virtual study group! Get ideas by reading about what other groups are doing to support certification.
The CIC® Facilitator Resource Toolkit was developed by CBIC to help APIC and IPAC Canada Chapters, State HAI Programs, hospital systems and other groups who support certification in infection prevention and control (CIC®) with their certification efforts. This toolkit contains everything from a pre-scripted presentation, to template letters to use to request support from your supervisor or your foundation, to ideas for meetings, study groups, and other ways to help promote certification. You can view the individual components of the toolkit throughout our site or download the full toolkit here.
CBIC is constantly generating new content to support certification. If you are on social media, or even just email, share our links and posts to help spread the word about certification. Here are some examples of what you can share:
Please feel free to reach out to CBIC for print materials, future CIC® ribbons and pens to help support certification at your events. Email info@cbic.org with the type of materials you will need, how many you will need and the address the materials should be sent to. Please also feel free to contact us for more online resources or advice on how you can help support certification!