Infection Prevention Control Programme

About the Course

This training package covers essential and advanced topics relevant to infection prevention and control (IPC) in health care facilities. The content discussed in the modules is intended to help build your knowledge and guide IPC implementation and policy development in your health facility. While this course is comprehensive, it is not exhaustive on all topics associated with implementing IPC programmes.

Enrolment

If your user profile says that your professional family or area of expertise is medical, then all you need to do is click on the Enrol me button below to become part of the programme's audience.

Target Audience

This course is aimed at all health care workers, specifically for IPC managers, supervisors, and focal persons.

Certification

Once you have completed all the PCI courses, you will receive a badge and a certificate.

Duration

The duration of the course is 75 hours

Learning Objectives

At the end of the course, you will be able to: Apply all the following measures in your daily work.

  • Standard Precautions 
  • Transmission Based Precautions
  • Wound Care
  • Improving Quality of Care
  • Participate in breaking the chain of transmission of infectious diseases (Malaria, COVID-19, Measles, and Meningitis) in the healthcare setting
  • Medical waste management
  • Epidemiology
  • Promoting patient Safety Culture
  • Healthcare-related incidents reporting
  • Quality improvement in healthcare
  • Advanced Cholera Learning
  • Participate in breaking the chain of transmission of Ebola
  • Clinical mentoring

List of Contents

  • Clinical Skills - Infection Prevention Control
  • Principles of Aseptic Technique
  • Wound Care Orientation Module
  • The Fundamentals of Quality of Care
  • COVID-19 Induction Training
  • COVID-19 Screening
  • Introduction to malaria
  • Introduction to Cholera
  • Introduction to Measles
  • Introduction to meningitis
  • Waste Basic-BLOG training (Log Basics OCP)
  • Patient Safety Culture and managing Healthcare related incidents
  • Prerequisite in Epidemiology
  • Medication and patient safety
  • The surgical safety checklist
  • Quality improvement in healthcare
  • Ebola e-Learning

OC Validation

This programme is validated for use by all OCs medical staff.