Health Worker Education and Training: Selected Resources
Infection Prevention
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.
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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
Infection Prevention: a Reference Booklet for Health Care Providers
EngenderHealth (2001)
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A quick desk reference on important infection prevention (IP) topics: handwashing, gloving, aseptic technique, use and disposal of sharps, instrument processing, housekeeping, and waste disposal. Designed for use by a wide range of health care workers in low-resource settings, this comprehensive booklet introduces the importance of good IP practices and provides step-by-step instructions for performing critical IP procedures.
Subject Categories: Infection Prevention
Infection Prevention: Multimedia Package (Training CD-ROM and Reference Booklet)
EngenderHealth (2000)
Based on the Infection Prevention Curriculum, this lively, interactive product is an essential training and reference package for health workers in low-resource settings. The CD includes training modules on handwashing, gloving, aseptic technique, instrument processing, use and disposal of sharps, and housekeeping and waste disposal. The material may be used for self-instruction or as part of formal training in infection prevention. The booklet serves as a quick desk reference after training. The package can be ordered for $40.00 from:
EngenderHealth Material Resources
440 Ninth Avenue
New York, NY 10001
phone: (212) 561-8000
fax: (212) 561-8067
e-mail: info@engenderhealth.org
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Infection Prevention
Module 2: Infection Prevention (Comprehensive Reproductive Health and Family Planning Training Curriculum Series)
(Comprehensive Reproductive Health & Family Planning Training Curriculum)
Pathfinder International (1997)
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Prepares providers to practice appropriate infection prevention procedures in order to reduce the risk of disease transmission during the provision of reproductive health services. It includes information on protective barriers such as handwashing, gloving and skin preparation as well as the processing of instruments and gloves.
Subject Categories: All Curricula | Infection Prevention
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