The orientation manual for new infection control professionals (ICPs) is the result of a collaborative effort by ICPs from across Canada. It is designed to provide the new ICP with enough basic knowledge and skills to enable them to begin their practice while waiting to register for an accredited infection control course. The manual is divided into 10 modules to be downloaded and printed for use. PICNet would like to invite any individual involved in healthcare to complete these modules — because infection prevention and control practices are everyone’s responsibility.
These modules are also available as a LearningHub course: Orientation for Infection Prevention and Control. We recommend that you download or print out the PDF versions of the modules below, go through the content, and take the quizzes at the end of each module in the LearningHub course. You can get a certificate of completion through LearningHub at the end.
Module 1: Introduction
Module 2: Routine Practices and Additional Precautions
Module 3: Hand Hygiene
Module 4: Microbiology
Module 5: Surveillance
Module 6: Outbreak Management
Module 7: Communicable Diseases
Module 8: Occupational Health
Module 9: Cleaning, Disinfection, and Sterilization of Medical Equipment and Devices
Module 10: Construction and Renovation
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This program was created by the Canadian ICP Orientation Manual Working Group. Refer to the Introduction module for more information about the authors and the creation of this work. These documents are available for your use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license, which allows you to modify and build upon this work as long as the original author (the Canadian ICP Orientation Manual Working Group) is credited in the new work, and that the new work is non-commercial and licensed under identical terms. For more information on this, refer to http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/.