You will learn essential techniques covering how to prevent infection in healthcare, including hand hygiene, PPE application, safe waste handling, and environmental cleaning. This infection prevention training also covers how to assess a wound and dressings to support healing and prevent complications.
Infection Prevention & Wound Care: Clean Practice Essentials
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Infection Prevention & Wound Care: Clean Practice Essentials
This course is part of Interactive 3D Clinical Skills: A Gamified Experience Specialization
Instructors: Hilary Gupte
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2 hours to complete
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What you'll learn
You will learn key principles of infection prevention and how they help maintain a clean, safe, and hygienic environment in healthcare
You will learn to apply key infection control skills: hand hygiene, PPE, and handling contaminated items to ensure safe clinical practice
You will learn to assess wounds, choose suitable dressings, and support healing while preventing infection through safe wound care
Skills you'll gain
- Infection Control
- Health Care
- Personal protective equipment
- Public Health and Disease Prevention
- Health And Safety Standards
- Health Assessment
- Patient Treatment
- Patient Safety
- Healthcare Ethics
- Community Health
- Wound Care
- Patient Communication
- Healthcare Industry Knowledge
- Hand Hygiene
- Basic Nursing Skills
- Health Care Procedure and Regulation
- Nursing
- Medical Surgical Nursing
- Clinical Nursing
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Taught in English
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This course is part of the Interactive 3D Clinical Skills: A Gamified Experience Specialization
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