Health & Safety
Health & Safety
Hand Hygiene
Delivery:
eLearning
Level:
2 & 3
Accreditation:
This course is CPD certified.
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About this course
This course aims to give learners the knowledge and understanding required to perform effective hand hygiene.
Hand Hygiene is one of the most important things in managing infection control and prevention in a health and social care workplace, and as professionals, health and social care workers should know how and when to practice effective hand hygiene.
This training applies to all health and social care workers that work in settings such as Care Homes, Day Centres or supporting an individual in their own home. This also applies to hospital staff at health care assistant level, unpaid and voluntary workers.
Guided Learning Hours: up to 30 minutes, dependent on learner’s skills and abilities.
The training provided is linked directly to the Care Certificate and the Health and Social Care Diploma at level 2 and level 3.
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course learners should know and understand the following:
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The importance of hand hygiene
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The Chain of Infection and how to break it with the 5 Moments of Hand Hygiene
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How to effectively wash your hands
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The effective use of hand rubs and sanitisers
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The use of personal equipment to protect your hands
Course Syllabus Includes
- Theory of Handwashing
- Defining Hand Hygiene
- The Importance of Hand Hygiene
- Coronavirus: COVID-19
- Hand Hygiene Risks
- Practicing Hand Hygiene
- Micro-organisms and Pathogens
- Resident and Transient Bacteria
- The Chain of Infection
- Mode of Transmission
- 5 moments of Hand Hygiene
- Handwashing Procedure
- Hand Drying Technique
- When Hands should be Washed
- Effects and Use of Hand Rubs & Sanitisers
- NICE Guidelines: Hand Decontamination
- Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
- The Use of Disposable Gloves
- Allergies
- Donning and Doffing PPE
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