This program provides a comprehensive overview of an infection control program specific to a home health care setting. It discusses surveillance in non-acute settings, surveys, and isolation as it relates to a home health care setting. Also discussed are issues such as antimicrobial resistance, hand hygiene, wound care, devices, and barrier precautions. The program takes into consideration CDC guidelines, OSHA regulations, and other current standards of practice.
This program comes on a CD-Rom in Microsoft PowerPoint, and is accompanied by a packet of supplemental materials that include:
- An introduction that states the program’s goals and objectives, and gives the presenter a few guidelines for presenting the program.
- Hard copies of all handouts
- A written competency assessment
- An answer key for the competency assessment
- A presenter’s program evaluation that you may fill out to let us know your thoughts and ideas on the program
- A certificate of completion that you may hand to each of your participants upon completion of the program
