SkillsForMED Infection Control Nurse Course

Infection Control Nurse (ICN) Course

This course will provide the knowledge and skills required for an ICN to lead the IPC programme in HCOs. Learners will be able to implement the IPC programme from scratch or improve existing ones using the techniques learnt and tools provided.

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Course curriculum

1. Welcome to SkillsForMED!
2. How to use this course
3. ICN Course Structure
4. What is Online Learning
5. Benefits and Challenges of Online Learning
6. Tips for Online Learning
1. Welcome to ICN course
2. Module Overview
3. ICN Course Overview
4. Assignment: Roles and responsibilities of infection control nurse (ICN)
5. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
6. Roles and Responsibilities of ICN
7. Assignment Resources: ICN Roles and Responsibilities -Guest lecture
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Epidemiology
3. Introduction
4. Definition
5. Hospital Epidemiology
6. Disease Transmission Process
7. Causative Agent
8. Reservoir
9. Portal of Exit
10. Transmission
11. Portal of entry
12. Susceptible host
13. Carriers of Infection
1. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
2. Assignment Resources: Chain of Infection Concept at the Bedside
3. Breaking the Chain of Infection
4. Emerging Infectious Diseases
5. Resource: Emerging Re-emerging Infectious Diseases
6. Post-test: Epidemiology
7. Assignment: Applying chain of Infection concepts at the bedside
8. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
9. Assignment Resources: Chain of Infection Concept at the Bedside
1. Reminder!
1. Module Overview
2. Introduction to Standard Precautions- Review
3. Pre-test: Standard Precaution
4. Standard Precautions-What?
5. Hand Hygiene - How?
6. Hand Hygiene-Why?
7. Hand Hygiene-When?
8. Donning and Doffing of PPE
9. Personal Protective Equipment
10. Correct Usage of Gloves
11. Wearing and Removing Clean Gloves
12. Injection and Infusion Safety
13. Setting up a Clean Injection Preparation Area
14. Skin Preparation-Best Practices
15. Scrub the Hub
16. Safe Use of Ampoules and Vials
17. Safe disposal and Reuse Policy
18. Recapping Needles
19. One-Handed Recapping Technique
20. Prevention of Needlestick Injuries
21. Needlestick Injury Care
22. Engineering Controls
1. Cough Etiquette
2. Disinfection and Sterilisation
3. Environmental Cleanliness Management
4. Spill Management
5. Biomedical Waste Management
6. Linen Management
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Additional Precautions
3. Additional Precautions
4. Risk Assessment
5. Patient Placement
6. Patient Transport and Outpatients
7. Cohorting Patients
8. Quick Recap
9. Standard Precautions and Additional Precautions
10. Post-test: Standard Precautions and Additional Precautions
11. Assignment: Risk Assessment
12. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
13. Assignment Resources: Risk Assessment
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: High Risk Precautions
3. Sharps Injury and Safety-Introduction
4. Sharps Injury Prevention
5. Needlestick Injury Prevention: One-Handed Recapping Technique
6. Management of Needlestick Injury
7. Aerosol Generating Procedure (AGP)
8. Bedside Medical Equipment Infection Prevention
9. Spill Management
10. Manage Spill
11. Post-test: High Risk Precautions
1. Reminder!
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Descriptive Epidemiology & Outbreak Management
3. Descriptive Epidemiology
4. Outbreak Management Introduction
5. Outbreak Management Steps
6. Outbreak Management Case study
7. Resource: Microbiology Reports
8. Microbiology Specimen Safety
9. Post-test: Descriptive Epidemiology and Outbreak Management
10. Assignment: Hospital Outbreak Management
11. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
12. Assignment Resources: Outbreak Management
13. Resource: Best Practice Guidelines for Specimens
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Health Care Workers Safety
3. HCW Introduction
4. Pre-employment Health Assessment
5. Immunisation
6. Managing Exposures to Blood and Body Fluids
7. Post Exposure Prophylaxis
8. Exposure Prone Procedures
9. Work Restriction
10. Resource: Work Restrictions
11. Assisting HCW
12. Post-test: Health Care Workers Safety (HCWs)
13. Resource: Assisting HCWs under Special Circumstances
14. Resource: Workforce Immunisation Risk Matrix
15. Resource: Diseases and Work Restrictions
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: AMS & AMR
3. Introduction
4. Definitions
5. Antibiotic Stewardship
6. Introduction to AMS
7. Leadership Commitment
8. Accountability and Drug
9. AMS Actions
10. Tracking and Reporting
11. Education
12. Role of ICN – Medication Administration
1. Module Overview
2. Antimicrobial Resistance - Introduction
3. AMR and MDR
4. AMR Prevention
5. Post-test: AMS and AMR
1. Reminder!
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: NABH HIC
3. NABH HIC Introduction
4. NABH HIC 1
5. NABH HIC 2
6. NABH HIC 3
7. NABH HIC 4
8. NABH HIC 5
9. NABH HIC 6
10. NABH HIC 7
11. Post-test: NABH HIC Standards
12. NABH HIC 8
13. Assignment Resources: Bedside Teaching Practice - NABH HIC Standards
14. Assignment: Bedside Teaching Practice - NABH HIC Standards
15. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: WHO Core Components
3. Introduction to WHO Core Components for Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
4. Importance of Infection Prevention and Control
5. Tools for IPC - Five Step Process
6. Tools for IPC - Multimodal Strategy
7. WHO-CC-1
8. WHO-CC-2
9. WHO-CC-3-4
10. WHO-CC-6
11. WHO-CC-7-8-5-Summary
12. Validation of NABH HIC standards with WHO CC
13. Resource: WHO’s IPCAF tool
14. Post-test: WHO Core Components for IPC
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Quality Assurance
3. Clinical Audit - Introduction
4. PDCA Cycle
5. Plan
6. Do
7. Check
8. Act
9. Root Cause Analysis
10. Resource: Hand Hygiene Audit Tools
11. Corrective And Preventive Action (CAPA)
12. Post-test: Quality Assurance
13. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
14. Assignment Resources: Audit of Hand Hygiene Practices of Hospital Staff
15. Assignment: Audit of Hand Hygiene Practices of Hospital Staff
1. Reminder!
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Statistics
3. Using Statistics in IPC
4. Data Collection
5. Data Analysis Tools
6. Rate
7. Rate Measures
8. Ratio
9. Central Tendency
10. Calculating Mean, Median and Mode Using Excel
11. Dispersion
12. Calculating Range Using Excel
13. Calculating Standard Deviation Using Excel
14. Data Inference
15. Data Presentation
16. How to Use Color Scales in Excel (Conditional Formatting)
17. How to Draw a Bar Graph in Excel
18. How to Draw a Line Graph in Excel
19. How to Draw a Pie Graph in Excel
20. How to Add a Trendline in Excel
21. Control Chart
22. How to Construct a Control Chart in Excel
23. Post-test: Statistics in IPC
24. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
25. Assignment Resources: Calculation of IPC Data - Part A
26. Assignment: Calculation of IPC Data
27. Assignment Resources: Calculation of IPC Data - Part B
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: HAI Surveillance
3. Introduction
4. HAI
5. HAI Surveillance
6. Infection Window Period (IWP)
7. Date of Event
8. Pathogen Assignment Guidelines
9. Recap
10. Post-test: HAI Surveillance
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: CLABSI
3. Introduction
4. Blood Stream Infection
5. Pathogenesis
6. Types of Blood Stream Infections
7. Statistical Analysis - Data Collection
8. Data Analysis
9. CLABSI Care Bundle
10. Case Study
11. Post-test: CLABSI
1. Reminder!
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: CAUTI
3. Introduction
4. Urinary Tract Infection
5. Pathogenesis
6. Neobladder
7. Types of Urinary Tract Infection (UTI)
8. Statistical Analysis-Data Collection
9. Data Analysis
10. CAUTI Prevention
11. Case Study
12. Post-test: CAUTI
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: Surgical Safety
3. WHO Surgical Safety
4. Surgical Wounds and Antibiotics
5. Pathogenesis and Microbiology
6. Risk Factors
7. Pre-operative Care
8. Intra-operative Care
9. Classification of SSI
10. Surveillance of SSI
11. Scoring an Infection
12. SSI A Quick Recap
13. Post-test: Surgical Safety
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: IPC in OT
3. CSSD
4. Quality Indicators
5. Sterilisation
6. Post-test: IPC in Operation Theatre
7. Assignment: IPC in OT services
8. SkillsForMED Ethical Code for Learning
9. Assignment Resources: IPC in OT Services
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: SSI
3. Introduction
4. Classification of SSI
5. Prevention of SSI: Pre-operative Care
6. Prevention of SSI: Intra-operative Care
7. Surveillance of SSI
8. Scoring an Infection
9. WHO Surgical Safety: A Quick Recap
10. Statistical Analysis- Data collection
11. Data Analysis
12. SSI Care Bundle
13. Case Study
14. Post-test: SSI Prevention
1. Module Overview
2. Pre-test: VAE
3. Introduction
4. Definitions
5. Ventilator Associated Events
6. Pathogenesis
7. Types of VAE
8. Statistical Analysis
9. Data Analysis
10. Care Bundle
11. Case Study
12. Post-test: VAE
1. Course Feedback Instructions
2. Course Feedback
1. ICMR-Hospital Infection Control Guidelines
2. Asian Health Care Workers
3. Australian Guidelines for IPC
1. Useful Links
2. CDC Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Tool for Acute Care Hospitals
3. CDC Infection Prevention and Control Assessment Tool for Outpatient Settings
1. Infection Control Program and Infrastructure tool
2. Device Reprocessing infrastructure assessment tool
3. Environmental Cleaning Infrastructure assessment tool
4. PPE Infrastructure assessment tool
5. Hand Hygiene Infrastructure assessment tool
6. Injection Safety Infrastructure assessment tool
1. Contact precautions
2. Antibiotic stewardship
3. Droplet precautions
4. Hand hygiene
5. Device reprocessing
6. Healthcare personnel safety
7. Injection safety
8. Environmental cleaning
9. Airborne precautions
10. PPE
1. Before You Go
2. Course Certificate

About this course

Free
315 lessons
14 hours of video content

Infection Control Nurse (ICN) Course

Course curriculum

Introduction to SkillsForMed Online learning

Introduction to SkillsForMed ICN course

Epidemiology

Epidemiology (contd.) & Emerging Infectious Diseases

Complete Pending Tasks

Standard Precautions

Standard Precaution (contd.)

Additional Precautions

High Risk Precautions

Complete Pending Tasks

Descriptive Epidemiology & Outbreak Management

Health Care Workers Safety

Antibiotic Stewardship Program

Antimicrobial Resistance

Complete Pending Tasks

NABH HIC Standards

WHO Core Components

Quality Assurance

Complete Pending Tasks

Statistics (Collecting Calculating and Presenting Data)

HAI Surveillance - Introduction

CLABSI

Complete Pending Tasks

CAUTI

Surgical Safety

IPC in Operation Theatre

SSI

VAE

Course Feedback

Resources: National and Asian Guidelines

Resources: IPC Program Tools

Resources: IPC Infrastructure Assessment Tools

Resources: Direct Observation Tools

Course Completion

About this course