Description

This online infection control course is available with free infection control for health & social care training certification. Importantly, this is available to download and print on successful completion of the course.

Our course is an ideal training solution and learning platform for all care home staff and social care providers. The aims of this course is to provide the learner with an understanding of how to heighten awareness regarding the cross contamination procedures within the workplace.

This course also helps to promote and improve the awareness of the universal procedures required to prevent and minimise the spread of infections within the health & social care environment.

What is covered in this level 2, e-learning infection prevention course?

• Introduction to infection prevention and why this is important within the workplace
• Health care associated infections (HAI’s) and how to ‘break the chain’
• Standard/universal precautions and prevention
• Appropriate and safe use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Safe disposal and management of clinical waste, safe management of body fluid spillages
• Management of laundry in clinical environments, effective environmental cleaning and decontamination
• Safe use and disposal of sharps, management of sharps injuries
• Importance of practising effective hand hygiene
• The World Health Organisation’s (WHO) ‘Five Moments’ of hand hygiene
• Common barriers to effective hand hygiene in clinical environments
• Recommended hand hygiene techniques, appropriate hand hygiene products and facilities
• How the personal health and fitness of the health care workers can be a risk to others

Course Certification
This infection control training for care home staff & social care workers will help you understand how you can prevent the spread of infections within your care home, or social care environment.

At the end of this course there is an online assessment and this assessment has a pass mark of 80%. On successful completion of this e-learning course, you will be able to download, save or print a quality assured CPD certificate.

Additional Training Available
We also offer first aid training that is suitable for care home and social care staff. Follow this link to our First Aid Training For Care Homes page for additional information.

Additionally, we also offer a dedicate care home training website, offering many additional training courses. Follow this link to our Online Care Home Training website.

All online training courses and programs are accredited by the CPD Certification Service, conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.