Infection Prevention & Control
Now £15
UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF) aligned & CPDUK accredited
Course description
This course provides principles of Infection Prevention & Control for front-line healthcare and social care staff. It explores how the personal health and fitness of healthcare workers can be a risk to colleagues and service users. The course ensures staff understand, practice and behaviour at the highest level to prevent and control infection. A health and social care expert will deliver this course once a month as a live interactive course or you can take the course anytime as a self-paced online course. This course covers knowledge, skills and behaviours expected of people working in the health and social care. Assessment includes multiple choice questions (MCQs).
Course length
2 hours
Course Structure
During this course, you will cover the following:
- An introduction to infection prevention and control,
- Explore pathophysiological impact of infection
- Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs),
- The ‘chain of infection’ and how to ‘break the chain’,
- Understanding universal precautions for infection prevention and control,
- Management and safe disposal of clinical waste,
- Explore the importance of practising effective hand hygiene,
- Identify barriers to effective hand hygiene
- Care and management
Course assessments
You will be assessed via:
- Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs)
Entry requirements
You must be working or planning to work in health and social care