Health Worker Education and Training: Selected Resources
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Home Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS: The Power of Our Community: Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV/AIDS for NGOs, FBOs & CBOs, Vol. III
CEDPA www.cedpa.org (2002)
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The curriculum provided in this manual seeks to empower family and community members with knowledge about living healthy with HIV/AIDS, providing care and support, and dealing with death and dying. Community members are urged to work together to find solutions to mitigate the impact of HIV/AIDS.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Community Health | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis | Integrated Reproductive Health
Home-Based Life Saving Skills
American College of Nurse-Midwives (2004)
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Home Based Life Saving Skills (HBLSS) manual is the third in a series of curricula focused on saving the lives of mothers and babies. The newest member of this series focuses on the home and community. It does this by supporting birth preparedness, decreasing delays in reaching referral facilities and involving decision makers in making timely decisions. HBLSS Manual includes Part I - Basic Information, Part 2 - Woman Information and Part 3 - Baby Information.
This 3 volume set can be purchased for $74.00
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Maternal & Newborn Care
How Can Self-Assessment Improve the Quality of Healthcare? QA Issue Paper 2(4)
Quality Assurance Project (2001)
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This paper examines the issues relating to self-assessment, such as the different types of self-assessment, its uses, and its validity. It also reviews the literature (largely from developed countries) that informs our knowledge of self-assessment. The paper makes recommendations for future research and concludes that while much remains to be done to assure that self-assessment has the impact it promises, it may also be less costly and easier to implement than alternatives.
Subject Categories: Quality
How to Integrate Gender Into HIV/AIDS Programs: Using Lessons Learned from USAID and Partner Organizations
USAID Interagency Gender Working Group / Population Reference Bureau (2004)
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About 45 percent of the people living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2002 were women. Developing appropriate responses to the gender issues that continue to make both women and men vulnerable to HIV is critical to all efforts in preventing HIV transmission, improving care and support for victims, and mitigating the impacts of the pandemic. This briefing booklet was put together to give program staff of USAID and partner organizations field-based insights on how to integrate gender into HIV/AIDS programs in a practical sense.
Subject Categories: Gender | HIV/AIDS, STIs & Tuberculosis
Impact of Accreditation on Quality. QA Brief 8(2)
Quality Assurance Project (1999)
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This issue of QA Brief addresses accreditation as well as self-regulation of hospitals in India and implementing IMCI.
Subject Categories: Quality
Infection Prevention Curriculum: A Training Course for Health Care Providers and Other Staff at Hospitals and Clinics
EngenderHealth (1999)
This comprehensive course is designed to train a broad range of health care workers at low-resource clinics and hospitals in the developing world. Topics include handwashing, gloves, antiseptics and disinfectants, aseptic technique, use and disposal of sharps, instrument processing, housekeeping, and waste disposal. The Trainer's Manual and Participant's handbook can be ordered from:
EngenderHealth Material Resources
440 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10001 USA
phone: (212) 561-8000
fax: (212) 561-8067
e-mail: info@engenderhealth.org
Includes Trainer's Manual ($75.00) and Participant's Handbook ($10.00)
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Infection Prevention
Infection Prevention Guidelines for Healthcare Facilities with Limited Resources
JHPIEGO (2003)
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The manual features infection prevention guidelines for outpatient settings as well as hospitals providing general medical, surgical, and obstetric services. To facilitate the manual's adaptation and use, each chapter has a set of learning objectives and is fully referenced. This allows the manual to be used in a variety of ways - as a text for preservice education, group-based training, or on-the-job learning programs, or as content for developing teaching, job, or behavior aids.
The manual is divided into four parts: Fundamentals of Infection Prevention; Processing Instruments, Gloves, and Other Items; Implementing Infection Prevention in Healthcare Facilites; and Nosocomial Infections.
Purchase online from JHPIEGO for $20.00
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Infection Prevention
Infection Prevention Learning Resource Package
JHPIEGO (2003)
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This learning resource package on CD-ROM contains both the Participant's Handbook and Trainer's Notebook. The handbook contains the course syllabus, schedule, precourse questionnaire and skills learning guides for a standard 6-day IP skills-based course. The notebook contains all material in the Participant's Handbook plus the course outline, presentation graphics, midcourse questionnaire, answer keys, skills checklists. Order one CD-ROM for each training course or training center; photocopy and produce Handbooks (one for each participant) and Notebooks (one for each trainer) locally.
Purchase online from JHPIEGO for $7.00
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Infection Prevention
Infection Prevention Learning Resource Package - Videotape
JHPIEGO (2003)
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The Videotape contains 2 videos:
Safe Practices in the Operating Room (17 minutes - safer surgery using hands-free techniques for passing surgical instruments.
Infection Prevention for Healthcare Facilities with Limited Resources: Overview and Practical Training Demonstration Segments 1-13 (70 minutes) - general overview of the importance of IP practices to protect clients and healthcare workers and 13 training demonstration segments showing detailed steps of recommended practices and instrument processing.
These videos are required as part of the standard 6-day IP skills-based course. Order one videotape for each training course or training center.
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Subject Categories: All Curricula | Infection Prevention
Infection Prevention Practices in Emergency Obstetric Care: a Supplement to Infection Prevention: a Reference Booklet for Health Care Providers
EngenderHealth (2000)
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General infection prevention practices, which are needed to reduce risk and the spread of infections during clinical services, are addressed in detail in Infection Prevention: A Reference Booklet for Health Care Providers and Infection Prevention Online Course. This emergency obstetric care (EmOC) guide, which is designed for use in conjunction with either of these resources, provides information about options and acceptable modifications to routine practice during emergency situations, with a focus on EmOC. Guidelines for specific EmOC and newborn care procedures are also provided.
Subject Categories: Infection Prevention | Maternal & Newborn Care
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