Workplace Essentials (WE) Infection Control Refresher for Direct Care Workers
Infection Control Refresher for Direct Care Workers offers a unique opportunity to view direct care workers using PPE in a community setting. It provides a brief overview of standard infection control procedures. It includes demonstrations of proper use of personal protective equipment to reduce the spread of pathogens and communicable diseases. It is designed for direct care workers, and others, as a reference tool that can be used to practice the best way in which to adhere to infection control precautions.
- Understanding Infection Control: This course provides an overview of infection control and standard precautions.
- Proper Techniques for Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE): In this course, actual Direct Care Workers demonstrate proper techniques for handwashing, gloves and putting on, removing, and disposal of PPE in a community setting. It provides an easy opportunity to view the skills multiple times.
- Real-Life Challenges: Several examples of real-life challenges to following proper infection control techniques and how to navigate them.
Narrating this course is Katherine Hanson, M.S. She is the IMPART Alliance Special Projects Coordinator has worked with IMPART Alliance since its beginning in 2016 and has over twenty years of community college teaching experience encompassing both in-person and online formats. She currently serves as the IMPART Alliance Special Projects Coordinator where her responsibilities include communicating with project participants, developing research instruments as well as data processing, analysis and summarization. She also designs and manages project websites, edits video content for several outlets, designs project-related publications, and prepares content for various social media networks.
- Define infection control, standard and universal precautions
- Identify when to use standard and universal precautions
- Describe the process for effective handwashing and hand sanitizing
- Describe how to care for PPE
- Describe how to put on and take off PPE
Beth Eisch
RN
Beth Eisch, RN, is currently a Master Trainer, Curriculum Designer, and Director of Education for IMPART Alliance. She holds an Associate Degree in nursing, a Bachelor of Science degree in nursing, and is a Certified Case Manager. Beth has over thirty years of experience in the field of aging, with a special focus on training direct care workers (DCWs). An additional area of focus for Beth is dementia. She is a Certified Dementia Capable Care Trainer and has done extensive training in this area for informal and formal caregivers. Beth worked as a Case Manager and Supervisor for the Area Agency on Aging of Northwest Michigan for nearly 29 years, has served as a Curricula Developer and Master Trainer for Community Services Network for the past 20 years, and as an IMPART Master Trainer for the evidence-based, comprehensive DCW training Building Training...Building Quality (BTBQ) for the past ten years. She is passionate about advocating on behalf of DCWs to receive better wages, training, and recognition and respect for the challenging and essential work that they do. Her advocacy flows into designing and teaching curricula that is based on a person-centered philosophy, uses adult learning principles, and adapts to the changing needs of the direct care work profession.
Chris Curtin
RN-BC
Chris Curtin, RN-BC has been a Certified Gerontological Nurse since 1989. Chris has over 35 years of experience in developing and delivering training programs. She was the founder of Community Services Network, a nonprofit organization which provided training programs for direct care workers for 22 years in northern Michigan and throughout the state. Chris has worked as a consultant for various projects with several Universities in Michigan, including IMPART Alliance at Michigan State University. She has worked with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services and the Michigan Adult and Aging Services of Michigan on a variety of projects.
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I enjoyed the level of engagement and the pace at which information was presented. I was able to gauge my understanding in real time through the exercises within the module."
