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Management of Healthcare Associated Infection
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On completion of this course, students will be able to:
- Identify, summarise and critique the structure and regulation of infection control within the hospital setting.
- Identify the systems and accountability for infection control that are in place to prevent and control hospital acquired infection.
- Define and examine the scope and priorities of the infection control programme (link to the Infection Control Team).
- Evaluate the effect of Clinical Governance within the infection control setting, the statutory duty to improve quality and the contribution of external bodies to this process.
- Examine and assess the organisation and operation of the a multidisciplinary Infection Control Team within the health care setting.
- Assess critically how infection control practice is monitored and managed and how change is implemented.
- Identify and evaluate how theory informs appropriate infection control practice.
- Understand the concepts of sterility and sterilisation.
- Understand the outline statistics of sterilisation: D-values, bioburden, sterility assurance levels.
- Know the common methods of attaining sterility: Steam and dry heat; their advantages and disadvantages.
- Describe alternative sterilisation methods.
- Know what disinfection achieves.
- Know the main methods of achieving disinfection: heat and chemicals.
- Know the main factors affecting quality assurance of chemical disinfection.
- Have a brief knowledge of the main chemical disinfectants and their properties, including important safety issues.
- Know the general susceptibility of micro-organisms: viruses, vegetative bacteria, bacterial spores, mycobacteria and fungi.
Indicative Content:
Eight topics covering the following material:
- Practical skills for electronic communication and in-depth study via the Internet.
- Current affairs in infection control. The current global and national infection control issues, recognition and understanding of the complexity of disease control including economic, political, and philosophical issues.
- Identity & spread of microorganisms . The microorganisms relevant to healthcare associated infection and their prevention and control, the various infections they cause their sources and routes of transmission.
- Investigation, prevention and control of healthcare associated infection. The investigations that are needed in a known or suspected outbreak. The principles of prevention and control of healthcare associated infection.
- Principles of infection control in clinical practice. The rationale for employing the principles of infection control and to apply theory to practice.
- Change management in infection control . The mechanisms of change within the healthcare setting and the complex process of change.
- Disinfection & sterilisation. The methods of decontamination used to sterilise or disinfect items of equipment, the environment, patient's skin and mucosa and healthcare workers' hands. The relative advantages and applications of different disinfection and sterilisation methods.
- The Infection Control Team . The multidisciplinary role of the Infection Control Team in the prevention and control of infection, how this has developed over time, how it identifies problems, initiates actions based on evidence, follows up issues and how it critically considers the ways in which infection control knowledge is disseminated and integrated into practice.
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