Description

This online infection control training care homes course answers many questions regarding infection prevention within the social care environment. It is an ideal learning solution for social care workers, nurses, or any residential care home staff member who is required to hold up to date infection prevention training certificate.

Being able to conduct your social care infection prevention certification online will enable you to complete this course at a time that is convenient to you.

What is covered in our e-learning course?

• Introduction to infection prevention
• Why infection prevention and control is essential
• Healthcare associated infections (HAIs)
• Chain of infection and how to ‘break the chain’
• Standard & universal precautions for infection prevention
• Safe and appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Management and safe disposal 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
• 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 healthcare workers can be a risk to others.

Course Certification
On completion of this online infection control course for care homes & the social care environment you will be required to undertake a test. This test has a pass mark of 80%. Do not worry if you fail on your first attempt, as you can retake the test as many times as you are required.

Once you have successfully completed this course free health & care infection control training certification will be available to download and print from your secure training area for your records. Our CPD certificate can be used to provide evidence for workplace compliance.

Additional Training Available
We offer many additional online training courses that are suitable for care home staff. One of these is our Online Emergency First Aid Training Course. This course holds a level 3 training certification and will help you stay compliant with your first aid training course requirements.

Additionally we also offer a dedicated care home training website, offering many additional training courses that are suitable for care home staff. Additional information can be found by following this link to our Online Care Home Training website.

All of our e-learning courses and programs are accredited by the CPD Certification Service, conforming to universally accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.