Aims

To provide the knowledge to:

• Assist Managers to verify procedures for prevention and control of infection.

Course objectives

• Financial consequences of infection outbreaks
• List and characterise important groups of relevant pathogens
• Distinguish between infection and carriage and the importance of both in the infection transmission cycle
• Describe standard infection prevention /control procedures
• Outline the documentation needed as part of an infection prevention system
• Construct a hand hygiene policy and describe approaches to improve hand hygiene implementation
• Construct a norovirus prevention and control policy.