Description
This Infection Prevention & Control in Care Training is based on Standard 15 of the Care Certificate. Infection control is an important issue. This online training programme has been designed to explain why it’s so important and to show you what you can do to help to avoid infections from spreading. Additionally, this course highlights infection control and prevention practices specifically within care settings.
LEARNING OUTCOMES
- Understand the importance of personal hygiene, including hand washing, disposing of waste and SHARPs and the correct use of PPE as part of effective Infection Prevention & Control in Care.
- Learn about the ‘infection chain’ and how to stop the infection from spreading with robust infection control and prevention in care environments.
- Learn about who is at risk of infection; Infection Prevention & Control in Care supports identifying vulnerable groups.
COURSE CONTENTS
This training course is broken down into 3 sections, each reflecting the core principles of Infection Control & Prevention in Care.
- Infections are a key concern for infection prevention and care control.
- The Chain of Infection is explained within the framework of Infection Control & Prevention in Care.
- Hygiene forms a fundamental part of infection prevention, control and care strategies.

Stephen Bradick –
In all honesty I thought this training was excellent.It was both about the right level and length.For somebody hopeless with IT like me the programme was so easy to navigate and it was great to be able to exit and go back without the worry of earlier screenings being lost.I don’t give 5 star reviews lightly but I felt this package certainly deserved it!