Infection Prevention & Control (Health Care Setting)

One of the greatest threats to the health of medical professionals and their patients is the failure to properly control the spread of infection.
The World Health Organisation describe Infection prevention and control (IPC) as a ‘practical, evidence-based approach which prevents patients and health workers from being harmed by avoidable infections’. Preventing health care-associated infections (HCAI’s) avoids unnecessary harm or death, and reduces the spread of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Preventing HCAI’s has never been more important.

This course is for people working in the healthcare and nursing areas, or any profession where infection control and management of it, is required.

• Introduction to Infection control
• HCAI causes and occurrences.
• Chain of Infection
• Controlling Infection risks
• Hand Hygiene - Practical demonstration & assessment
• Waste Management and Decontamination issues.
• Personal Protection Equipment – Practical demonstration & assessment.
• Corona Virus - Covid-19

• Powerpoint  presentation
• Class activities & discussion
• Videos
• Practical demonstrations

4 hours

Full Safetech certification of attendance is provided on successful completion of this course. Certificate is valid for 2 years.

Participants will be evaluated on key infection control techniques; competency must be demonstrated in all areas. They would have to sit a multiple choice written exam.

Unemployed

If you are unemployed and seeking work, you may be eligible for funding from the Department of Social Protection to cover all, or some of the costs of your training. (means depending, you may be entitled to up to €1000).

Candidates who wish to avail of this must make an appointment with a case officer in their local Intreo office, discuss their case & apply for funding. The candidate will receive a funding application form which they must sign & bring/post to us. Upon completion, we will send this back to the case officer who will then review the funding application.

Upon receiving funding approval in the post from the Department of Social Protection, candidates must then call us to reserve a place on our course. We cannot confirm a place on our course until funding approval is gained.

Employed

If employed within the private sector or are a sole trader, there may also be funding assistance available through Skillnet funding. Skillnet may fund a percentage of your training, if eligible. For more details on this, please contact us on 074 91 27786.