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Infection Control: Standard and Advanced Training

Protect clients and staff with expert infection control. This course trains your team to stop the spread of disease through proper hygiene, disinfection, and safety protocols in any care setting

Get into action to fight diseases!

Enroll yourself into Infection Control Training! In the field of medicine, sterility is key to keeping the area and the clients safe. Even the slightest contamination can cause a spread of any type of bacterial or viral infection. Infection spreads from person to person through the air or the objects they touch if they're infected even if they're asymptomatic, without the proper infection control training, healthcare workers and clients are susceptible to different illnesses that can deteriorate their overall health, especially those who are immunocompromised.

Being able to identify causes of infections is the first step in infection control training, through this healthcare workers will be able to understand the ways diseases can be spread and stop it from the sources since awareness, and applying the methods of proper disposal and disinfection greatly reduces the chances of viruses and bacteria from staying too long within the facility. This is how our course will help. The Infection Control Training: Standard and Advance Precautions course will ensure your healthcare workers understand the basis of infection control from how diseases spread and why they spread to the standard precautions given to them by the establishment or by health organizations. The courses focus on awareness and applications of precautions such as sterilization, disinfection, proper disposal, and disease spread awareness. 

Course Goals
✅ Define the important terminologies about infection control and precautions
✅ Describe the different ways diseases can be spread
✅ Explain what standard precautions are
✅ Identify the precautions that must be observed when cleaning and disposing wastes
✅ Describe what sharps and waste are and how to they should be disposed
✅ Explain the additional precautions for preventing the spread of various diseases

Course Objectives
Upon completion of this Training, caregivers will be able to:
✅ Educate clients about infection control and its importance
✅ State the four ways diseases can be transmitted
✅ Demonstrate the proper ways of handwashing, wearing of protective equipment, and other standard precautions
✅ Encourage clients to observe standard precautions to protect them from infection
✅ Apply the proper ways of waste disposal when dealing with client's wastes
✅ Implement additional precautions when working with a sick client to prevent further spread of infection

Course Outline

Lesson 1:  Introduction: Getting Ready 
Lesson 2:  The ABCD's of Disease Transmission 
Lesson 3:  Hand Washing & Protection
Lesson 4:  Maintaining a clean environment
Lesson 5:  Waste & Sharps Disposal
Lesson 6:  Airborne Infections Precaution
Lesson 7:  Understanding Contact Transmission
Lesson 8:  Droplet transmission

What's in this course

Learning Level : Beginner
Duration: 40 minutes
Format : SMS
Quizzes: 14
Lessons: 8
Certificate: Digital Certificate of Completion

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