Infection Prevention Control and Outbreaks Part 1 in Aged Care
Price range: AU$49.00 through AU$59.00
Course Duration: 40 mins
Accessible for: 31 days
In this course, you will explore in detail the importance of infection prevention and control and understand why it is a crucial part of your responsibilities as an aged care worker. We will analyse the chain of infection to see how interrupting each link can effectively prevent the spread of disease. Additionally, we will thoroughly cover the 9 Standard Infection Control Precautions that aged care workers must consistently follow to ensure safe and effective care.
After this lesson, you’ll be able to:
- Define infection prevention and control.
- Describe the key consequences of inadequate infection control and its critical role for aged care workers.
- Identify the Chain of Infection and how disrupting it can stop the spread of infections.
- Describe the nine Standard Infection Control practices that aged care workers must consistently apply.
- E-learn (45min)
- Assessment (10 questions)
- 12 resources:
- The Use and transmission-based precautions.
- Your role in infection prevention and control when visiting an aged care service.
- Stay Safe and Prevent Infections.
- The Australian Guidelines for the Prevention and Control of Infection in Healthcare (2019.
- How to Hand Rub video.
- 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene.
- Scenarios for Hand hygiene in aged care.
- Video from Safety Commission – Helping others with hand hygiene.
- Video – How to Don PPE.
- Video – Donning and fit checking a respirator mask.
- Video – How to don and doff PPE in residential aged care.
- Cleaning and disinfection for health and residential aged care homes.
- Certificate of completion
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