This course is also available in the following languages:

русский - 日本語 - français - Bahasa Indonesia - Español - Português - Italiano - српски језик - 中文 - македонски јазик - Türkçe - język polski - Tiếng Việt - العربية - Nederlands - Tetun - বাংলা - فارسي - Soomaaliga - සිංහල

Overview:

This course will cover the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) measures required in order to:

• Be prepared and ready to respond to an outbreak, in particular, the one due to COVID-19.
• Limit human to human transmission by way of implementing WHO recommended IPC interventions.
• Identify, isolate and report suspect and confirmed cases.

There are resources attached to each module to help you dive further into this topic.

Learning objectives:

On completion of this course, you should be able to:

• define IPC and its role in the context of preparedness, readiness and response;
• describe the current epidemiological COVID-19 situation, including case definitions and signs & symptoms;
• describe source control, administrative controls and environmental and engineering controls;
• describe the WHO-recommended IPC measures for health care facilities, including when dealing with suspect or confirmed COVID-19 cases;
• describe additional IPC measures to be taken to assist in general preparedness within a health care facility.

Course duration: Approximately 1 hour.

Certificates: A Confirmation of Participation is available to participants who complete 100% of the course material.

After completing this course, should you be interested in learning about how to correctly put on and remove personal protective equipment (PPE) in the context of COVID-19, please refer to the OpenWHO course: COVID-19: How to put on and remove personal protective equipment (PPE): https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-PPE-EN

Should you be interested in learning about how to correctly perform hand hygiene, please refer to the OpenWHO course: https://openwho.org/courses/IPC-HH-en