Infection Control: Standards for Nursing Practice
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About the Course
Healthcare providers must understand and be vigilant about the prevention of infection and the control of infectious diseases. This infection prevention and control course provides content important to healthcare providers, specifically nurses and CNAs, working in all healthcare settings.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will master the following objectives:
- Define terminology related to infection prevention and control.
- Discuss the process of infectious disease, including the source of infectious agents, modes of transmission, host susceptibility, and stages of infection.
- Discuss common healthcare-associated infections, including risk factors for development of these infections, and organisms causing these infections.
- Discuss the term multiple drug-resistant organism, including the effect of these infectious agents on infection prevention and control.
- Outline types of bloodborne pathogens and how they spread in healthcare settings.
- Discuss the role of national agencies in maintaining public health and security.
- Describe how infection control prevention concepts are applied in professional practice.
- Discuss immunization programs in place in the United States and the role these programs play in infection prevention and control.
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Infection Control: Standards for Nursing Practice
19
About the Course
Healthcare providers must understand and be vigilant about the prevention of infection and the control of infectious diseases. This infection prevention and control course provides content important to healthcare providers, specifically nurses and CNAs, working in all healthcare settings.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this course, the student will master the following objectives:
- Define terminology related to infection prevention and control.
- Discuss the process of infectious disease, including the source of infectious agents, modes of transmission, host susceptibility, and stages of infection.
- Discuss common healthcare-associated infections, including risk factors for development of these infections, and organisms causing these infections.
- Discuss the term multiple drug-resistant organism, including the effect of these infectious agents on infection prevention and control.
- Outline types of bloodborne pathogens and how they spread in healthcare settings.
- Discuss the role of national agencies in maintaining public health and security.
- Describe how infection control prevention concepts are applied in professional practice.
- Discuss immunization programs in place in the United States and the role these programs play in infection prevention and control.