Course Description
Our bestseller 6-hour infection control training CEU course for nursing, occupational therapy, and other healthcare professionals. Course includes infection prevention and control practices, coronavirus (COVID-19) considerations, the chain of infection, standard and transmission-based precautions, barriers and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and strategies for preventing the spread of infectious disease to healthcare workers and patients.
Learning Outcomes and Objectives
1) Summarize the goals of infection prevention and control.
2) Describe pathogenic organisms and the chain of infection.
3) Explain methods to prevent the spread of infection.
4) Discuss engineering, work practice, and environmental controls that protect against healthcare-associated infections.
5) Identify barriers and personal protective equipment for protection from exposure to potentially infectious material.
6) Discuss efforts designed to minimize the risk of occupational exposures to infectious diseases.
7) Recognize suspected sepsis and methods to prevent it.
Course Professions
Nursing
Paramedic/EMT
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy
Course Summaries
Nursing, Paramedic/EMT, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy:
Infection prevention and control practices, the chain of infection, methods to prevent the spread of infection, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), strategies to minimize the risk of occupational exposures to infectious diseases.
Accreditation & Approval Information
Nursing: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.
Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.
Occupational Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 08548. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 0.6 CEUs, Introductory, Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
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.
Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.
Physical Therapy:
Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.
EMT/Paramedic:
Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.
Course Statements
Occupational Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 08548. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 6.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.
Course Notes
All Professions:
NEW YORK HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Take the NY version of this course.
Nursing:
NEW YORK NURSES: Take the NY version of this course.
Physical Therapy:
FLORIDA PT: This course is not approved for PTs/PTAs in Florida.
Course Categories
| Infection Control |
| Infectious Disease |
| Emergency Nursing |
| Home Health |
| Infection Control/Public Health |
| Workplace Safety (OSHA) & Accident Prevention |
| Medical |
| Special Considerations |
| Foundational Knowledge |
| 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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