Basic Infection Control
| Course ID : | MED365 |
| Course Duration : | 5 Days |
| City : | Abu Dhabi |
| Location : | UAE |
Course Overview:
The Basic Infection Control course provides essential knowledge and practical guidance on infection prevention and control (IP&C) principles within healthcare and high-risk environments. The course focuses on reducing the transmission of infections, protecting patients, healthcare workers, and the wider community, and ensuring compliance with legal and regulatory requirements.
Course Objectives:
This course aims to:
- Increase awareness of high-risk environments and vulnerable groups for infection transmission
- Highlight the impact and burden of infections on individuals and healthcare systems
- Clarify employers’ legal and regulatory responsibilities related to infection control
- Improve understanding of infection types, classifications, and commonly used terminology
- Strengthen knowledge of the chain of infection and methods to interrupt transmission
- Promote safe work practices through the application of standard infection control precautions
- Enhance safe waste management and laundry handling practices
Course Outline:
The course combines theory-based instruction with practical guidance and covers the following topics:
- Principles of infection prevention and control
- High-risk environments and populations
- Burden of healthcare-associated and community-acquired infections
- Legal, regulatory, and ethical responsibilities in infection control
- Types of infections and key infection control terminology
- Chain of infection: source, mode of transmission, and susceptible host
- Standard precautions and personal protective equipment (PPE)
- Hand hygiene and respiratory etiquette
- Environmental cleaning and disinfection
- Healthcare waste management
- Handling, transportation, and decontamination of laundry
Learning Outcomes:
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Identify high-risk environments and vulnerable groups for infection transmission
- Describe the impact of infections on individuals and healthcare systems
- Explain legal and organizational responsibilities related to infection control
- Recognize different infection types and apply appropriate terminology
- Identify and break the links in the chain of infection
- Apply standard precautions effectively to prevent and control infections in the workplace
- Manage healthcare waste safely and handle contaminated laundry appropriately
Target Audience:
This course is intended for infection prevention and control professionals and healthcare personnel who require foundational training in IP&C, including epidemiologists, physicians, resident physicians, nurses, dentists, podiatrists, physician assistants (PA), nurse practitioners (NP), healthcare students, and allied health professionals. Course modules may be adapted to suit specific professional roles.