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Infection Control for Healthcare

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Infection Control Training Course teaches you everything on the topic thoroughly from scratch so you can achieve a professional certificate for free to showcase your achievement in professional life. This Infection Control Course is a comprehensive, instructor-guided course, designed to provide a detailed understanding of the nature of the related sector and your key roles within it.

To become successful in your profession, you must have a specific set of skills to succeed in today’s competitive world. In this in-depth Infection Control Training Course, you will develop the most in-demand skills to kickstart your career, as well as upgrade your existing knowledge & skills. The training materials of this course are available online for you to learn at your own pace and fast-track your career with ease.

Key Features of the Infection Control Course

Our trusted, high quality and affordable Infection Control Course trains individuals to become experts in their field.

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Who Should Take The Infection Control Training Course

Anyone with a knack for learning new skills can take this Infection Control Training  Course. While this comprehensive training is popular for preparing people for job opportunities in the relevant fields, it also helps to advance your career for promotions.

Certification

Once you’ve successfully completed your Infection Prevention and Control for Healthcare Course, you will immediately be sent a digital certificate. Also, you can have your printed certificate delivered by post (shipping cost £3.99). Our certifications have no expiry dates, although we do recommend that you renew them every 12 months.

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Accreditation

All of our courses, including this Infection Control Training Course, are fully accredited, providing you with up-to-date skills and knowledge and helping you to become more competent and effective in your chosen field.

Assessment

At the end of the course, there will be an online assessment, which you will need to pass to complete the course. Answers are marked instantly and automatically, allowing you to know straight away whether you have passed. If you haven’t, there’s no limit on the number of times you can take the final exam. All this is included in the one-time fee you paid for the course itself.

Course Curriculum

  • Understanding Potential Hazards in Healthcare Environments
  • Types of Hazards
  • What are Substances that are Hazardous to Health?
  • What are Hazardous Effects?
  • Route of Entry
  • Adverse Effects
  • Potential impacts of hazards for individuals who require care or support, employees and employers
  • Injury or Harm
  • Illness
  • Poor Standards of Care
  • Financial Loss
  • Types of Settings
  • Fire Safety
  • Fire Prevention
  • Smoking
  • RACE System
  • Use of a Fire Extinguisher
  • Preventing Falls
  • Minimizing the risk of injury as a result of a fall
  • Violence in the Workplace
  • Guidelines for Violence Prevention
  • Guidelines for dealing with a Violent Individual
  • Nursing Assistant Safety
  • Ergonomics
  • Managing Health and Safety
  • What you need to do
  • The Core Elements
  • Plan, Do, Check and Act
  • Plan: Say what you want to happen
  • Do: Make sure systems are in place to provide the tools and
  • Equipment to do the job safely
  • Check: Make sure the work is being done safely
  • Act: Learn from problems and successes, and make improvements
  • Key points to consider
  • Evaluating the Risk (COSHH)
  • Roles and Responsibilities Involved in Health, Safety and Security
  • Employers
  • Employees
  • COSHH Policies
  • COSHH Essentials
  • Special Consideration in Residential Care Settings
  • Cleaning and Infection Control
  • Occupational Dermatitis
  • Handling Specimen
  • Prescription Medicines
  • Cytotoxic Drugs
  • Biohazards
  • Sharps Injuries
  • Summary
  • Introduction to the Module 
  • Topics to be Covered 
  • Hygiene 
  • Assessing the Client for Their Personal Hygiene Habits and Routines 
  • Assessing and Intervening in the Client’s Performance on their Activities of Daily Living 
  • AM Care and PM Care 
  • Oral Hygiene 
  • Hand Hygiene for Nursing 
  • Bed bathing patients 
  • Summary
  • Assessment 

 

 

  • What is Infection?
  • The chain of Infection
  • Decontamination of non-invasive shared equipment
  • Principles of decontamination
  • How to clean a hospital bed and mattress
  • Equipment needed
  • The procedure
  • How to clean and disinfect a commode
  • Equipment needed
  • The procedure
  • Use of disposable gloves and aprons
  • Principles of gloves use
  • When to wear gloves
  • When to remove gloves
  • Glove selection
  • The procedure of Applying and Removing Gloves
  • Applying Gloves
  • Removing gloves
  • Aprons
  • Apron Selection
  • The procedure of applying and removing apron
  • Applying apron
  • Removing Apron
  • Equipment for facial and respiratory protection
  • When to use facial and respiratory protection
  • Facial protection: face masks and eye protection
  • The choice of visors or goggles will depend on
  • Respiratory protection
  • Putting on facial PPE
  • Face protection
  • Eye protection: goggles or visors
  • Removing PPE
  • Eye protection
  • Face protection
  • Standard Precautions
  • Guidelines for Standard Precautions
  • Infection Prevention and Control Policies
  • Prevention of Infection in Healthcare Settings
  • Universal Precautions
  • Infection Control in Special Circumstances
  • Summary
  • Immune System
  • The role of immune system
  • The Structure of Immune System
  • The Parts of the Immune System
  • Innate Immune Response
  • Two line of defence
  • Cells of the innate immune system
  • Neutrophils
  • Monocytes and macrophages
  • Dendritic Cells
  • Natural killer cells
  • Adaptive immune response
  • The thymus
  • T cells
  • B cells
  • Vaccination
  • Autoimmunity
  • Disorders of the Immune System
  • Allergic Diseases
  • Autoimmune Diseases
  • Immune complex diseases
  • Immunodeficiency disorders
  • Cancers of the immune system
  • Summary
  • Core elements of managing for health and safety
    • Legal duties
    • Risk profiling
    • Health and safety management systems 
    • Documentation 
    • Attitudes and behaviours 
    • Are you doing what you need to do?
                • Leading and managing for health and safety 
                • Competence
                • Worker consultation and involvement
                • Delivering Effective Arrangements
    • Plan
    • Do
    • Check
    • Act
    • Summary
    • Assessment
  • What is asepsis?
  • Principles of asepsis
  • Stages of medical aseptic technique
  • Hand hygiene
  • Storage of equipment
  • Preparing equipment
  • Consent
  • Environment
  • Use of gloves and aprons
  • Maintaining a sterile field
  • Equipment disposal
  • Guidelines for Maintaining Medical Asepsis
  • Summary

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