Description
By the end of the course, candidates will be able to:
- Give examples of legislation relating to IPC
- List different types of infection and describe how they are spread
- Describe the concept and importance of “breaking the chain of infection”
- List the different elements of Standard Infection Control Precautions and discuss their importance
- Maintain personal and environmental hygiene
- Demonstrate the correct procedure for effective hand decontamination
- Describe the correct procedure for putting on and removing Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Course content
- The importance of Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
- Legislation
- Local policies relating to IPC
- Employer and employee responsibilities
- What is an infection
- Types of infection
- Colonisation
- MRSA
- Clostridium difficile
- Who gets infections
- How micro-organisms grow
- Sources of infection
- How infections are spread
- Preventing spread of infection
- Breaking the chain of infection
- Standard Infection Control Precautions
- Hand hygiene
- Respiratory hygiene
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- Occupational exposure (management of sharps and inoculation injuries)
- Management of care equipment
- Safe care of linen (including uniforms)
- Control of environment
- Safe waste disposal
- Management of body fluid spillage
- Aseptic technique
