Infection Prevention and Control

What you will cover

• Roles and responsibilities
• How infection starts
• The immune system
• Causes of infections and infectious diseases - pathogenic organisms(bacteria, viruses,fungi,parasites and protozoa)
• Symptoms of infection
• Assessing the risk of infection
• Chain of infection, ways infection can spread, preventing and controlling infection - breaking the chain
• Ventilation
• Your health- personal hygiene, respiratory hygiene, good hand habits, hand hygiene and hand washing
• PPE - gloves, aprons and masks
• Wounds and invasive devices
• Waste disposal and decontamination - safe handling of waste, safe disposal of sharps, spillage management and decontamination of equipment
• Dealing with soiled linen and contaminated laundry
• Agreed ways of working
• Sluicing
• What to do if there is an outbreak