Infection prevention and control is an essential part of ensuring ongoing improvements to the safety of patients and to the quality of care they receive. All staff involved with infection prevention and control need to have the required knowledge, understanding and skillset to ensure that infections are prevented and controlled, and to provide improvements in safety and quality within the care setting, wherever that may be- e,g care homes, the homes of patients, or within hospital environments.
Good infection prevention and control makes it possible to achieve a properly working health care service, so it really is a core part of the overall care system. Infection prevention and control affects and is involved in all aspects of health care- examples include proper hand hygiene, management of surgical site infections, safe injections and so on.
The goal of infection control within a workplace setting is to prevent pathogens (such as infections, diseases, microbes) from being passed between individuals in that environment, whether those individuals are care workers or patients. The cornerstone of a good infection control system is to assume everyone is potentially infectious, and to engage in infection control procedures accordingly. Good examples include frequent and thorough washing of hands and maintaining a workplace which is clean (and cleaned repeatedly).
Employers must provide or allow suitable information and training in Infection Prevention & Control. Doing so ensures that their staff are able to properly carry out the various activities needed to ensure infections are prevented and controlled.
Healthcare workers need to understand and be suitably trained in how infections happen to begin with, and how they, the staff, can help to prevent pathogens from spreading. Healthcare personnel also need a keen awareness of regulatory requirements so they can meet the expected standards and demonstrate that they are working towards ensuring he delivery of proper standards of care.
Our course in Infection Prevention & Control Level 2 covers the following:
• Understanding Infection and Its Spread
• Micro-organisms Causing Disease
• Healthcare-Associated Infections (HCAIs)
• Alert Organisms and Condition
• Modes of Transmission
• Legal Requirements and Legislation
• Risk Assessment
• Standard Precautions
• Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
• Isolation Procedures
Key Learning Outcomes
• Understand the chain of infection and how it informs infection prevention and control practices.
• Describe different alert organisms and conditions that pose an infection risk.
• Understand the different ways that infections can spread and how to control them.
• Identify the legal requirements and legislation that relate to infection control.
• Explain the difference between standard precautions and isolation procedures.
• Describe the safe management of patients with specific alert organisms.
If you’re interested in taking this course, we would love to hear from you. Please do get in touch with us on 01291 624 451, or email training@aci.training.
