Infection Prevention and Control in Care

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.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

• Understand the importance of personal hygiene, including hand washing, disposing of waste and SHARPs and the correct use of PPE
• Learn about the ‘infection chain’ and how to stop the infection from spreading
• Learn about who is at risk of infection

COURSE CONTENTS

This training course is broken down into 3 sections

1. Infections
2. The Chain of Infection
3. Hygiene