Description

Importantly, our course presentations are clear and concise. This online infection control course for dentists and the dental surgery environment was developed in line with the latest UK legislation. It also meets the requirements set out by the National Health Service (NHS).

Also the Resuscitation Council (UK), Skills for Health’s UK Core Skills Training Framework (CSTF), the Care Quality Commission (CQC), Skills for Care, UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) and other professional and regulatory bodies.

What is covered in this level 2, e-learning infection control course?

• Introduction to prevention and control & why this is important within the workplace
• Healthcare associated infections (HAI’s) and how to ‘break the chain’
• Standard/universal precautions and prevention
• Safe and appropriate use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
• Management and safe disposal of clinical waste, safe management of body fluid spillages
• Management of laundry in clinical environments, effective environmental cleaning and decontamination
• Safe use and disposal of sharps, management of sharps injuries
• Importance of practising effective hand hygiene
• World Health Organisation’s (WHO) ‘Five Moments’ of hand hygiene
• Common barriers to effective hand hygiene in clinical environments
• Recommended hand hygiene techniques, appropriate hand hygiene products and facilities
• How the personal health and fitness of the health care workers can be a risk to others

Course Certification
At the end of this e-learning cross contamination programme you will be required to complete an assessment. This assessment has a pass mark of 80%.

Importantly, on successful completion of the assessment you will be able to download a FREE infection control for training certificate. Our CPD certificate can be used to provide evidence of compliance.

Additional Training Available
It should be noted that we can help dentists stay compliant with their BLS training. We offer an Online BLS Training course.

This course is an ideal training solution for dentists, dental nurses & hygienists.

Additionally, we also offer a dedicate infection control training website. This e-learning platform offers many additional training courses. Additional information can be found by following this link to our Online Infection Control Training website.

Finally, all of our e-learning course programs are accredited by the CPD Certification Service, accepted Continuous Professional Development (CPD) guidelines.