NHSN Annual Training Information
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) will hold the Annual NHSN Training for Patient Safety, Outpatient Procedure, and Neonatal Component Surveillance and Analytics during the 1st Quarter of each year.
This course is intended for NHSN users of the Patient Safety Component, Outpatient Procedure Component, and Neonatal Component.
The virtual training event will feature live presentations, pre-recorded training videos for self-paced viewing, and opportunities for Q&A.
Training topics include surveillance definitions and analysis for:
- Device-Associated Events
- Surgical Site Infection Events
- MRSA Bacteremia and difficile LabID Events
- Antimicrobial Use and Resistance
- Outpatient Procedures
- Late-Onset Sepsis and Meningitis Events
- And other topics
The virtual course provides participants with the opportunity to gain a better understanding of their NHSN surveillance data and how these data can be used for prevention.
Annual Training registration opens in the spring.
View training videos from the 2023 Annual Training.
View training videos from the 2022 Annual Training.
View training videos from the 2021 Annual Training.
- General NHSN Definitions for 2019 – May 2019
- Internal Data Validation and Data Quality – May 2019
- AJIC NHSN Case Study Session – May 2019
- Antibiotic Stewardship – May 2019
- Antimicrobial Use (AU) Option: Reporting and Analysis – May 2019
- Antimicrobial Resistance (AR) Option: Reporting and Analysis – May 2019
- Standardized Antimicrobial Administration Ratio (SAAR) – May 2019
- Central Line-associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) – May 2019
- CLABSI Surveillance and Analysis Group Exercise – May 2019
- Secondary BSI and NHSN Site-specific Infections – May 2019
- Secondary BSI and NHSN Site-specific Infections Group Exercise – May 2019
- Catheter-associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) – May 2019
- CAUTI Surveillance and Analysis Group Exercise – May 2019
- MRSA Bacteremia and CDI LabID Event Reporting – May 2019
- MRSA Bacteremia and CDI LabID Event Reporting and Analysis Group Exercise – May 2019
- Outpatient Procedure Component (OPC) and Analysis – May 2019
- Pneumonia Events – May 2019
- Pediatric Ventilator Associated Event (PedVAE) – May 2019
- Surgical Site Infection (SSI) – Part 1 – May 2019
- Surgical Site Infection (SSI) – Part 2 – May 2019
- SSI Surveillance and Analysis Group Exercise – May 2019
- Use and Application of the Ventilator Associated Event (VAE) Protocols – May 2019
- Ventilator Associated Event Case Studies – May 2019
- Introduction to NHSN Analysis – May 2019
- Analysis: Tell Your Hospital’s Story with NHSN Data – May 2019
- Analyzing Device-associated HAI Data – May 2019
- Analyzing SSI Data – May 2019
- Analyzing LabID Event Data – May 2019
- Analyzing Device-associated SURs – May 2019
- VAE and PedVAE Analysis – May 2019
- Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP) Reports – Part 1 – May 2019
- Targeted Assessment for Prevention (TAP) Reports – Part 2 – May 2019
- Introduction to the NHSN Re-baseline – March 2017
- The NHSN Re-Baseline: In Depth – March 2017
- NHSN Rebaseline Webinar, Part 1 – October 2016
- NHSN Rebaseline Webinar, Part 2 – November 2016
- Updating the national risk-adjustment of HAI Data – March 2016
WD4243 Continuing Education Information [PDF – 200 KB]
- Infection Surveillance in Long-term Care: A National Perspective – July 2019
- Overview NHSN LTCF Component – July 2019
- NHSN Navigation Demonstration – July 2019
- Importance of CDI and MDRO Surveillance – July 2019
- Surveillance for CDI and MDROs in LTCFs: LabID Event Modules – July 2019
- Surveillance for LTCF UTI Module Part 1 – July 2019
- Surveillance for LTCF UTI Module Part 2 – July 2019
- Prevention Process Measures Module – July 2019
- Healthcare Personnel Safety Component: Influenza Vaccination – July 2019
- Antibiotic Stewardship in LTCF – July 2019
- Using NHSN for Action – July 2019
- NHSN LTC Data Validation – July 2019
- Building Capacity to Implement Infection Prevention and Surveillance – July 2019
- LTC Prevalence Survey: Methods, Results and Next Steps – July 2019
- UTIs from the LTC Prevalence Survey – July 2019
- Antibiotic Use in Long-term Care: Findings from the LTC Prevalence Survey – July 2019
