Standard Precautions in Nursing: A Florida Continuing Education Course

Course overview

This course provides Florida healthcare professionals with an expanded and clinically practical review of Standard Precautions in nursing practice. Standard Precautions are the foundation of infection prevention and control and are used during care for every patient, in every setting, regardless of diagnosis or presumed infection status. The course explains how Standard Precautions developed from earlier isolation systems, Universal Precautions, and Body Substance Isolation; why they remain essential in modern healthcare; and how nurses apply them during routine and high-risk care. The course emphasizes hand hygiene, personal protective equipment, respiratory hygiene and cough etiquette, safe injection practices, sharps safety, environmental cleaning, patient care equipment management, linen handling, patient placement, occupational exposure prevention, and clinical decision-making based on exposure risk. The content is designed to support safe, evidence-based care in acute care, long-term care, ambulatory, home health, rehabilitation, assisted living, and community settings.