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Care Certificate (Part 15) - Infection Prevention and Control

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Infectious diseases have the potential to spread from person to person, posing significant risks in health and social care settings. This chapter emphasizes the importance of infection prevention and control measures to protect both individuals receiving care and healthcare workers.

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  • Recognize different categories of pathogens (bacteria, viruses, fungi, parasites, and protozoa) and their characteristics.
  • Recognize which populations are more susceptible to infections and why they are at higher risk.
  • Describe the sequence of events that lead to the spread of infectious diseases, including causative agents, reservoirs, means of exit, modes of transmission, portals of entry, and persons at risk.
  • Apply key infection prevention strategies such as hand hygiene, safe disposal of waste, use of PPE, and environmental cleaning to interrupt the spread of pathogens.
  • Demonstrate the importance of healthcare workers maintaining good personal hygiene, staying up-to-date with vaccinations, and following protocols when
  • Follow the World Health Organization's ‘5 moments’ for hand hygiene and proper hand washing techniques to minimize the risk of infection.
  • Properly manage clinical waste and sharps to prevent injury and contamination.
  • Handle and launder soiled linen safely to prevent the spread of harmful microorganisms.
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Frequently Asked Questions

It helps prevent the spread of infections and protects care workers, residents, service users and visitors. Good hygiene and safe practices are essential for maintaining a safe care environment.

The 5 Moments are before touching a person, before a clean procedure, after body fluid exposure risk, after touching a person and after touching their surroundings.

Care workers can use effective hand hygiene, PPE, safe waste disposal, environmental cleaning, respiratory hygiene and appropriate infection prevention procedures.

Clinical waste and sharps should be handled carefully, segregated correctly and disposed of in appropriate containers according to workplace procedures to prevent injury and contamination.

Soiled linen should be handled with appropriate PPE, kept away from clean items, placed in the correct laundry container and processed according to infection control procedures.