Infection Control
PANS Members can sign up to four courses for free. A form must be filled in for each one you wish to complete.
Please email palearning@wea.ac.uk to get started.
Courses can be done on any computer, laptop, iPad, tablet or smart phone. Internet connection is also required.
You will receive a digital certificate upon completion, via email.
What’s included in the Infection Control modules?
- The human microbiome
- What infection is
- Risk of infection in care environments
- Policies and procedures
- Resident and transient flora
- Pathogenicity and virulence
- The immune system
- Causes of a weakened immune system
- Types of micro-organisms
- Bacteria
- Viruses
- Parasites
- Fungi
- The chain of infection
- People at risk of infection
- Methods of infection transmission
- Managing the control of infection
- Employer and employee responsibilities
- Risk assessment
- Standard Infection Control Precautions
- Personal hygiene
- Hand washing
- Hand sanitiser
- Respiratory hygiene
- Personal protective equipment
- Effective cleaning
- Cleaning schedules
- Colour coding cleaning materials
- Disinfectants
- 3 levels of decontamination
- Sterilisation
- Exposure to body fluids
- Biohazard spill kits
- Laundry and linen
- Sluicing
- Waste disposal
- Clinical waste
- Safe use of sharps
- Safe handling of specimens
- Occupational health checks
- Immunisations
- Food hygiene
- Legionella
- Containing an infection outbreak
- Signs of infection in elderly people
- Notifiable diseases
- Root Cause Analysis
- RIDDOR
If you wish to complete this course, please email palearning@wea.ac.uk