VIDEO: Hooked on ID with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC
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SAN ANTONIO — We caught up with Connie Steed, MSN, RN, CIC, FAPIC, at the annual meeting of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology to find out how she got “Hooked on ID.”
Steed, an infection prevention consultant and APIC’s immediate past president, was honored with the 2024 Carole DeMille Achievement Award for her more than 4 decades in infection prevention.
According to APIC, the award “celebrates a lifetime of achievements and honors an APIC infection preventionist member who has advanced the practice and profession of infection prevention and control.”
Steed also gave a talk at the meeting on the potential benefits of universal nasal decolonization.
“It took a year or 2 for me to understand that being an infection preventionist was, and is, my calling,” Steed said.
Watch the video above for her full story.