• Infection control and Standard Precautions

Infection Control for Caregivers

    About this course


    Ensuring infection control is core to your caregiving role. This course takes more basic information for all caregivers and advances to more direct hands-on care tasks provided by home health aides (or similar roles using other titles). Take this course to learn:

    • Infection control for aides
    • Review infection control basics
    • Apply these to your aide-specific tasks
    • Apply these throughout all other courses
    • Duration: 75 mins

    What you'll learn

    By the end of this course, learners will be able to:

    • Understand infection control and its importance for aides
    • Identify airborne, droplet, and contact transmission methods
    • Practice hand and cough hygiene and use PPE correctly
    • Follow standard and transmission-based precautions
    • Clean, sanitize, and disinfect effectively
    • Apply infection control to hygiene, grooming, ADL tasks, and sharps safety
    • Integrate infection control principles across all caregiving skills

    This course includes


    • Audio Included
    • How-to instructional videos
    • Interactive learning activities
    • Knowledge checks
    • Designed specifically for adult learners
    • Certificate of completion
    • Closed captions and audio included
    • 100% online access
    • English