Infection Prevention & Control

🧼 Infection Prevention Control

Infection control helps prevent the spread of microorganisms and protects patients, healthcare workers, and visitors.

🦠 Key Infection Control Topics

1. Hand Hygiene
Clean your hands before and after patient contact, before clean procedures, and after contact with body fluids or contaminated surfaces.

2. Standard Precautions
Treat blood and certain body fluids as potentially infectious and use appropriate protective measures.

3. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Use gloves, gowns, masks, and eye protection when needed based on the task and risk of exposure.

4. Transmission-Based Precautions
Additional precautions may be required for infections spread by contact, droplets, or airborne particles.

5. Safe Disposal
Dispose of sharps and contaminated materials safely according to your workplace policies.

💡 Quick Tip
Hand hygiene is one of the most effective ways to help prevent the spread of infection.

🧼 Infection Control Checklist

Before and after providing care, ask yourself:

☐ Did I perform hand hygiene?
☐ Am I using the correct PPE?
☐ Do I understand the required precautions?
☐ Did I dispose of contaminated items safely?
☐ Did I clean equipment as required?
☐ Did I follow my school's or workplace's infection-control policies?

⭐ Remember
Clean hands. Correct precautions. Safe care.