Course 2: Common Infection Prevention and Control Practices

This course aims to train healthcare workers in common infection prevention and control practices. The lessons elaborately cover the core components of IPC, standard precautions. The course provides detailed coverage on hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, biomedical waste management, disinfection, and sterilisation, and so on. A module on infection prevention and control measures and guidelines during outbreak has been included to train healthcare workers for pandemic/endemic situations.

1. Topics and Sub-topics

1. Course Overview

  • 1.1. OPEN-AMR

2. Common Infection Prevention and Control

  • 2.1. Introduction
  • 2.2. Overview
  • 2.3. Learning Objectives
  • 2.4. Infection Prevention and Control (Definition and Background)
  • 2.5. Significance of Infection Prevention and Control
  • 2.6. Topics to Cover
  • 2.7. Standard Precautions for Infection Prevention and control
  • 2.8. Hand Hygiene
  • 2.9. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
  • 2.10. Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette
  • 2.11. Needle Stick Injuries
  • 2.12. Environmental Cleaning
  • 2.13. Linens
  • 2.14. Disposal of Waste
  • 2.15. CDC Guidelines for the Prevention of Device-Associated Infections
  • 2.16. Core Components of IPC
  • 2.17. Core Component 1 - IPC Programs
  • 2.18. Core Component 2 - IPC Guidelines
  • 2.19. Core Component 3 - IPC Education...
  • 2.20. Core Component 4 - HAI Surveillance
  • 2.21. Core Component 5 - Multimodal Strategies
  • 2.22. Core Component 6 - Monitoring/Audit of IPC Practices and Feedback
  • 2.23. Core Component 6 - Core Element 7 - Workload, Staffing, and Bed Occupancy
  • 2.24. Core Component 8 - Built Environment, Materials, and Equipment for IPC at the Facility Level
  • 2.25. Methods of Surveillance
  • 2.26. Summary

3. Hand Hygiene

  • 3.1. Hand Hygiene Video
  • 3.2. Q6

4. PPE

  • 4.1 PPE Video

5. Bio Medical Waste

  • 5.1. Introduction
  • 5.2. Overview
  • 5.3. Learning objectives
  • 5.4. Topics To Cover
  • 5.5. Biomedical Waste (BMW) – Definition
  • 5.6. Other Important Definitions Related to Healthcare Waste
  • 5.7. Classification of Healthcare Waste
  • 5.8. Biomedical Waste
  • 5.9. General Waste
  • 5.10. Other Waste
  • 5.11. Categorization and Classification of Waste in Healthcare Facilities
  • 5.12. Interim Storage of Biomedical Waste
  • 5.13. In-House Transportaion of Biomedical Waste
  • 5.14. Pre-treatment of Biomedical Waste
  • 5.15. Yellow Category A- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Human Anatomical Waste
  • 5.16. Yellow Category C- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Solid Waste
  • 5.17. Yellow Category D- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Expired and Discarded Medicine
  • 5.18. Yellow Category E- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Waste
  • 5.19. Yellow Category F- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Chemical Liquid Waste
  • 5.20. Yellow Category G- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of G Waste
  • 5.21. Yellow Category H- Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of H Waste
  • 5.22. Red Category : Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Red Category Biomedical Waste
  • 5.23. White Category : Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of White Category Biomedical Waste
  • 5.24. Blue Category : Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Blue Category Biomedical Waste (Glass Material )
  • 5.25. Blue Category : Pretreatment, Treatment and Disposal of Blue Category Biomedical Waste (Metal Body Implants )
  • 5.26. Occupational Safety of Healthcare Workers Handling Biomedical Waste
  • 5.27. Summary
  • 5.28. Biomedical and Waste Management Video

6. Role of IPC in Outbreak Management

  • 6.1. Introduction
  • 6.2. Overview
  • 6.3. Learning Objectives
  • 6.4. Topics to Cover
  • 6.5. Introduction
  • 6.6. Outbreak
  • 6.7. Investigation and Management
  • 6.8. Formation of Outbreak Control Team...
  • 6.9. Risk Reduction Measures
  • 6.10. Early Recognition and Source Control
  • 6.11. Administrative Controls
  • 6.12. Environmental and Engineering Con...
  • 6.13. Personal Protective Equipment
  • 6.14. General Measures
  • 6.15. End of outbreak
  • 6.16. Summary
  • 6.17. References

7. Cleaning, Disinfection and Sterilization

  • 7.1. Introduction
  • 7.2. Overview
  • 7.4. Introduction
  • 7.5. Topics to Cover
  • 7.6. A Rational Approach to Disinfection and Sterilization
  • 7.7. Factors affecting the efficacy and Disinfection and Sterilization
  • 7.8. Cleaning
  • 7.9. Disinfection
  • 7.10. Sterilization7.11. Steam Sterilization
  • 7.12. Flash Sterilization
  • 7.13. Ethylene Oxide "Gas" Sterilization
  • 7.14. Hydrogen Peroxide Gas Plasma
  • 7.15. Sterilizing Practices
  • 7.16. Cleaning of instruments
  • 7.17. Packaging
  • 7.18. Loading
  • 7.19. Storage of instruments
  • 7.20. Monitoring of sterilization of instrumentation
  • 7.21. Summary
  • 7.22. Cleaning Disinfection and Sterilization
  • 7.23. References

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