This course covers off on a range of critical infection control aspects, including:

• established guidelines for the prevention and control of infection, including those for:

• personal and hand hygiene:

• how to hand wash
• how to hand rub
• pre-surgical hand preparation
• clinical moments when hand hygiene should be performed with soap and water rather than alcohol-based hand rub
• non-clinical moments for hand hygiene hand care, including guidelines on maintaining intact skin, fingernails and jewellery/watches

• use and scope of personal protective equipment guidelines for:

• glove use
• wearing gowns and waterproof aprons
• wearing masks
• wearing protective glasses

• surface cleaning:

• cleaning procedures and their specified times
• routine surface cleaning

• managing a blood or body fluid spill
• sharps handling and disposal techniques
• reprocessing procedures for equipment

• types of additional precautions and their relevance to particular areas of work or client groups
• types of hazards in the work environment and associated risks and control measures
• chain of infection:

• source of infectious agent
• mode of transmission
• susceptible host

• basis of infection, including:

• bacteria and bacterial spores
• difference between harmless microorganisms and pathogens
• difference between colonisation, infection and disease
• fungi
• viruses

• key modes of disease transmission – contact, airborne and droplet:

• paths of transmission including direct contact, aerosols and penetrating injuries
• risk of acquisition
• sources of infecting microorganisms including persons who are carriers, in the incubation phase of the disease or those who are acutely ill

• factors that increase the susceptibility to infection:

• immune status
• wounds or devices
• medications and comorbidities
• age

Course Code: Infection Control

Duration: One and a half days

Day: Monday and half day Tuesday

Location: AMA Nedlands Training Centre, 10 Stirling Highway

Contact Time Hours: 9:00am – 4:30pm (Monday), 9:00am – 1pm (Tuesday)

2020 Course Dates

16-17 November (Filling Fast)

CORPORATE BOOKINGS

AMA Training Servcies can conduct this training at your workplace on a date that suits your operations where at least 5 staff are required to be trained. Contact us for more information.

Successful completion of this course will result in the issuing of the following nationally recognised skill set:

• HLTSS00064 – Infection control Skill Set

This skill set comprises one unit of competency (HLTINF001 – Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures), which can be used as credit toward further studies in the health and community services space.

NOTE: This course will require access to an appropriate health related workplace in order to complete all assessment requirements.

Course Fee: – FREE – Fully funded by the Department of Training and Workforce Development