Atlantis Educational Center Infection Control

Subject areas

This course counts toward the state boards and subject areas below.

Disclosure statements

At the end of this course the learner will:

¿ Recognize the benefit of adhering to standards of infection

control and describe the professional’s

responsibility to adhere to these practices and the consequences

of failing to comply.

¿ Recognize the professional’s responsibility to monitor

infection control practices of those for

whom he or she is responsible and intervene as necessary.

¿ Describe how pathogenic organisms may be spread in healthcare

settings, identify those factors

influencing the outcome of exposure, list strategies for

preventing transmission of pathogenic

organisms, and describe their application in practice.

¿ Define engineering controls and work practice controls and

identify a hierarchy of exposure

prevention strategies.

¿ Describe specific practices and settings that raise exposure

potential to healthcare workers and

patients and identify work practice controls that prevent

exposure.

¿ Recognize the circumstances that require the use of personal

protective equipment and identify

these specific barriers.

¿ Identify a professional’s responsibility for maintaining a

safe patient care environment and

recognize nonspecific disease findings that prompt evaluation by

healthcare providers.

¿ Recognize the role of occupational health strategies in

protecting healthcare providers and

patients and recognize the importance of the correct application

of reprocessing methods.