Infection Control for Caregivers
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
75 mins
Certificate included
100% online
English
Audio & Captions
Learning Objectives
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
What's inside
This course includes
How-to instructional videos
Interactive learning activities
Knowledge checks throughout
Audio narration
Closed captions (accessibility)
Certificate of completion
Scenario-based videos
Downloadable checklists
Mobile-friendly access
Progress saving (resume anytime)
