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Overview
Since 2000, the epidemiology of Clostridioides (formerly Clostridium) difficile infection (CDI) has changed with significant increases in incidence and severity. Recently overall incidence of CDI and healthcare-associated CDI has decreased while community-associated CDI has not. CDI, once considered to be exclusively a hospital-acquired infection, had nearly 50% community-associated cases in 2017. Infections in those considered low risk (peripartum women, children, and young healthy adults) have increased. Many infected patients lack the usual predisposing CDI risk factors. This course discusses risk factors related to emergence of community CDI, ways community-associated CDIs are transmitted, and current prevention and treatment guidelines of CDI.
Goals and Learning Outcomes
- Discuss the changing epidemiology of C. difficile.
- Describe how C. difficile is transmitted in the community.
- Assess the major and minor risk factors for community-associated C. difficile infection.
Course Details
Course Originally Released on : 4/1/2024
Course Expiration Date : 12/31/2027
REL-ACU-0-CACDI
Accreditations
NURSES
In support of improving patient care, Relias LLC 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.
Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, CEP#13791
Disclaimer: Not all courses will provide California Board of Registered Nursing approval. Per California Assembly Bill No. 241, continuing education courses related to direct patient care shall address at least one or a combination of the following:(1) Examples of how implicit bias affects perceptions and treatment decisions of licensees, leading to disparities in health outcomes; or (2) Strategies to address how unintended biases in decision-making may contribute to health care disparities by shaping behavior and producing differences in medical treatment along lines of race, ethnicity, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, socioeconomic status, or other characteristics.
CEBroker
Relias LLC reports to CEBroker for the following boards (Provider # 50-1489): Arkansas State Board Of Nursing, District Of Columbia Board Of Nursing, Florida Board Of Nursing, Georgia Board Of Nursing, New Mexico Board Of Nursing, South Carolina Board Of Nursing and West Virginia Board Of Examiners For Registered Professional Nurses
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Disclosures
None of the planners/faculty, unless otherwise noted, for this educational activity have relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.