Course Description
NEW YORK STATE MANDATED INFECTION CONTROL COURSE. NYSED- and NYSDOH-approved 4-contact-hour training covers infection prevention, infection control practices and procedures, barriers, PPE, safe environment principles, and preventing transmission of infectious disease to and from healthcare workers. Must be taken every four years. Bestseller course!
Special Accreditation
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is approved as a provider of infection control and barrier precautions training by the New York State Education Department, provider ID #IC138, and the New York State Department of Health, provider ID #OT10601.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives
| 1) Summarize the principles and practices of infection prevention and control. |
| 2) Describe the modes and mechanisms of the transmission of pathogenic organisms, including the chain of infection. |
| 3) Discuss engineering and work practice controls designed to reduce patient and healthcare worker exposure to infectious materials. |
| 4) Identify barriers and personal protective equipment for protection from exposure to potentially infectious material. |
| 5) Describe the principles and practices for cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization in the healthcare environment. |
| 6) Identify occupational health strategies for preventing the transmission of bloodborne and other pathogens to and from healthcare workers. |
| 7) Recognize suspected sepsis and methods to prevent it. |
Course Professions
Nursing
Mandatory
Course Summaries
Nursing, Mandatory:
REQUIRED FOR NY RN/LPN NYSED and NY DOH-approved training on infection control. Infection prevention, infection control practices and procedures, barriers and PPE, sepsis.
Accreditation & Approval Information
Nursing:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is approved as a provider of infection control and barrier precautions training by the New York State Education Department, provider ID #IC138, and the New York State Department of Health, provider ID #OT10601.
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.
This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.
State-Mandated:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is approved as a provider of infection control and barrier precautions training by the New York State Education Department, provider ID #IC138, and the New York State Department of Health, provider ID #OT10601.
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Course Statements
Mandatory:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is approved as a provider of infection control and barrier precautions training by the New York State Education Department, provider ID #IC138, and the New York State Department of Health, provider ID #OT10601.
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Nursing:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is approved as a provider of infection control and barrier precautions training by the New York State Education Department, provider ID #IC138, and the New York State Department of Health, provider ID #OT10601.
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Course Notes
All Professions:
This course fulfills the requirement for 4 hours of infection control training for many healthcare professionals in New York.
Nursing:
This course fulfills the requirement for 4 hours of infection control training for RNs and LPNs in New York.
Mandatory:
This course fulfills the requirement for 4 hours of infection control training for many healthcare professionals in New York.
Course Categories
| Infection Control |
| Infectious Disease |
| Emergency Nursing |
| Home Health |
| Infection Control/Public Health |
| State-Mandated CE |
| Workplace Safety (OSHA) & Accident Prevention |
| Infection Control |
| Infectious Disease |
Authors
Judith Swan, MSN, BSN, ADN
Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education includes teaching psychiatric, long-term, and dementia nursing care and as director of a nursing assistant college program. She has written ancillary educational materials for nursing textbooks, curricula for nursing assistant programs, online health articles, and continuing education courses since 2012.
Leslie R. Crane, EdD, MSN, RN
Leslie Crane has been an RN since 1973. She teaches in the RN, LVN, CNA, and home health aide programs at Santa Rosa Junior College in California. She graduated from Sonoma State University with an MSN and the University of Phoenix with an EdD in educational technology. Her clinical background is primarily in adult critical care. Leslie loves teaching nursing students and "infecting" them with her enthusiasm for the profession, passion for life-long learning, and commitment to a high level of accountability.
Copyright
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State(s) requiring this course
New York