Infection Prevention and Control
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1. Introduction
This lesson provides a general introduction to infection control.
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Lecture 1.11.1. Infection Prevention and Control
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Lecture 1.21.2. How Infections Occur
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Lecture 1.31.3. Chain of Infection
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Lecture 1.41.4. Breaking the Chain of Infection
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Lecture 1.51.5. Standard and Transmission-based Precautions
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Lecture 1.61.6. Everyone’s Responsibility
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Lecture 1.71.7. Training, Guidelines, and Regulations
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2. Transmission and Chain of Infection
This lesson explains what is the chain of infection, how infectious agents are transmitted and how to break the chain of infection.
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Lecture 2.12.1. Infectious Agents
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Lecture 2.22.2. Reservoir
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Lecture 2.32.3. Portal of Exit
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Lecture 2.42.4. Mode of Transmission
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Lecture 2.52.5. Portal of Entry
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Lecture 2.62.6. Susceptible Host
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Lecture 2.72.7. How to Break the Chain of Infection
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3. Infection Prevention and Standard Precautions
This lesson describes the standard precautions to be used by everyone in order to prevent infections.
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Lecture 3.13.1. Hand Hygiene
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Lecture 3.23.2. Video: How to handwash with soap and water
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Lecture 3.33.3. Video: How to hand-rub with an alcohol-based formulation
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Lecture 3.43.4. Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette
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Lecture 3.53.5. Food Hygiene
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Lecture 3.63.6. Cleaning and Laundry
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Lecture 3.73.7. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and Risk Assessment
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Lecture 3.83.8. Video: How to Safely Put on Personal Protective Equipment
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Lecture 3.93.9. Video: How to Safely Take off Personal Protective Equipment
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Lecture 3.103.10. Social Distancing
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Lecture 3.113.11. Waste Management
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4. Infection Control and Transmission-based Precautions
This lesson describes the transmission-based precautions to be established by organizations in order to control infections.
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Lecture 4.14.1. Contact Precautions
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Lecture 4.24.2. Droplet Precautions
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Lecture 4.34.3. Airborne Precautions
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Quiz / Exam
Test your knowledge
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Quiz 6.1Infection Prevention and Control
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