Topic outline

  • General

  • Introduction

    • Infection can be the biggest killer in a health and care setting. This learning pathway provides you with the opportunity to learn more about infection, the spread of infection and how to work safely to avoid it.


    • Learning Pathway details
      • Pathway Length – 2-4 Hours 
      • Sharable certificate on completion 
      • 100% Online 
      • Beginner / Intermediate Level 
    • During this learning pathway you will be learning about:

  • Session 1 – Causes of Infection

    1-2 hours to complete
    • Health and Social Care workers have a duty of care to protect service users and others from harm, including harm from infectious disease.All health and social care workers first need to understand the causes of infection. They can then understand how infection is spread from one person to another and learn about actions that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of infection spreading.In this session we will be focusing on the first stage – understanding the causes of infection.


      Objectives:
      1. Understanding The importance of knowing about the causes of infection.
      2. Understanding The causes of infection.
      3. Understanding Bacteria.
      4. Understanding Viruses.
      5. Understanding Fungi.
      6. Understanding Parasites.

  • Session 2 – The Spread of Infection

    1-2 hours to complete

    • Health and Social Care workers have a duty of care to protect service users and others from harm, including harm from infectious disease. All health and social care workers first need to understand the causes of infection. They can then understand how infection is spread from one person to another and learn about actions that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of infection spreading. In this session we will be focusing on understanding how infection is spread from one person to another.


      Objectives:
      1. Understanding Types of infection.
      2. Understanding Colonisation and infection.
      3. Understanding The spread of infection.
      4. Understanding Vulnerability to infection.
      5. Understanding Conditions needed for bacterial growth.
      6. Understanding Routes of infection.

  • Session 3 – Infection Safety

    1-2 hours to complete

    • Health and Social Care workers have a duty of care to protect service users and others from harm, including harm from infectious disease.All health and social care workers first need to understand the causes of infection. They can then understand how infection is spread from one person to another and learn about actions that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of infection spreading. All health and social care workers first need to understand the causes of infection. They can then understand how infection is spread from one person to another and learn about actions that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of infection spreading.In this session we will be focusing on actions that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of infection spreading.


      Objectives:
      1. Understanding The importance of knowing about infection safety
      2. Understanding Common causes of the spread of infection
      3. Understanding Poor hand hygiene
      4. Understanding Hand washing
      5. Understanding Cleaning procedures
      6. Understanding Personal protective equipment (PPE)
      7. Understanding Bed linen and clothing
      8. Understanding Handling food
      9. Understanding Airborne infections

  • Conclusion

    • This pathway has given you the opportunity to learn more about infection and how it is spread. You should now be confident in your working practices to identify causes of infection and how to stop or limit the spread.

  • Final Reflection Task

    • Your final part of this pathway is to share a reflection. It is important to reflect after any learning you do as this helps close the loop on what you have learnt, gives you the opportunity to answer any question you may have or even encourage you to find out more information. It will also help us in creating future pathways, learning packages and platforms.