Infection prevention and control for COVID-19 in health care and community settings

Course information

What you'll learn

• Describe the IPC measures in health-care settings recommended to prevent transmission
• Explain the required personal protective equipment (PPE) and steps for putting on and removing PPE when caring for patients with suspected or confirmed COVID-19
• Describe public health and social measures that can be used to mitigate transmission in community settings.

Course contents

• Introduction:

  This introductory module provides an overview of the infection prevention and control for COVID-19 guideline.

• Module 1a: IPC principle and practices for COVID-19 in health-care settings:

  The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of WHO IPC guideline for COVID-19 and highlight recommendations and implementation considerations for health-care settings. At the end of this module participants will: describe IPC recommendations for patients with suspect and confirmed COVID-19 in health-care settings; identify initial actions for when providing care to patients with symptoms of COVID-19; apply IPC measures based on a risk assessment, including the selection and use of PPE, and describe the contextual factors, strategies and implementation considerations to apply IPC recommendations and adapt to settings.

• Module 1b: Practical IPC measures for COVID-19 in health-care facilities:

  The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of WHO IPC guideline for COVID-19 and highlight recommendations and implementation considerations for health-care settings. At the end of this module participants will: identify actions for implementing screening and triage of patients with signs and symptoms of COVID-19; describe the source control measures in a health facility to prevent transmission of COVID-19including the use of masks, and describe specific IPC measures applicable to the prevention and control of COVID-19 transmission in health facilities.

• Module 2: Steps to put on and take off PPE in the context of COVID-19:

  This module provides a video demonstration of the steps for safely putting and removing the PPE required when caring for patients with suspected of confirmed COVID-19 .

• Module 3: Preventing, identifying and managing health and care exposure:

  The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of WHO IPC guideline for COVID-19 and highlight recommendations for preventing, identifying and managing health and care worker exposures. At the end of this module participants will: describe methods for screening of health and care workers; list strategies and resource implications for testing of health and care workers; explain the considerations for managing health and care worker exposures, and describe when infected health and care workers should isolate and the duration of isolation.

• Module 4a : Practices and principles for community mitigation measures:

  The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of WHO IPC guideline for COVID-19 and highlight recommendations community mitigation measures. At the end of this module participants will: provide an overview of COVID-19 recommended measures to mitigate the risk and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the community; describe protective measures when providing care to persons with suspect or confirmed COVID-19, and consider situational risk and other contextual factors, strategies and implementation considerations for community settings.

• Module 4b: Community mitigation measures for the community:

  The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of WHO IPC guideline for COVID-19 and highlight recommendations community mitigation measures. At the end of this module participants will: provide an overview of COVID-19 recommended measures to mitigate the risk and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 in the community; describe protective measures when providing care to persons with suspect or confirmed COVID-19, and consider situational risk and other contextual factors, strategies and implementation considerations for community settings

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Certificate Requirements

• Gain a Record of Achievement by earning at least 80% of the maximum number of points from all graded assignments.
• Gain an Open Badge by completing the course.