Course Description
From hospital rooms to hallways, laundries to maintenance shops, healthcare environments can contain many harmful organisms. In this Infection Control in Healthcare Environments course, you’ll learn how harmful organisms—like bacteria, viruses, and fungi—can spread through everyday surfaces, air, and human contact in healthcare settings. You'll explore why infection control matters and how following proper hygiene, cleaning, and safety procedures can protect patients, staff, and visitors.
You’ll find out how to choose and use cleaning products that meet healthcare standards, how often to clean high-touch areas, and the correct way to handle and dispose of different types of waste, including sharps and hazardous materials. The course also highlights the importance of hand washing, personal hygiene, and using PPE correctly to prevent exposure.
You’ll learn how guidelines from OSHA, the CDC, and local health departments shape facility-wide safety practices, including those related to air and water quality. Whether you work in maintenance, laundry, administration, or support services, this training shows how your actions can help stop infections before they start and maintain a healthier environment for everyone.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify how infections spread in healthcare environments
- Apply cleaning and disinfection procedures using approved products
- Use personal protective equipment (PPE) correctly for various tasks
- Follow proper waste disposal procedures, including hazardous and sharps waste
- Follow CDC and OSHA infection control guidelines relevant to your role
Skills You Will Learn
- Cleaning Validation
- Regulatory Compliance
- Universal Precautions
- Waste Management
- Infection Control
What You'll Learn
- Identify how infections spread through surfaces, air, and human contact in healthcare environments
- Apply cleaning and disinfection procedures using approved, healthcare-standard products
- Use personal protective equipment (PPE) correctly for various tasks
- Follow proper waste disposal procedures, including hazardous and sharps waste
- Follow CDC and OSHA infection control guidelines relevant to your role
- Apply proper hand washing and personal hygiene practices to prevent exposure
Key Takeaways
- Harmful organisms such as bacteria, viruses, and fungi can spread through everyday surfaces, air, and human contact in healthcare settings.
- Proper hygiene, cleaning, and safety procedures help protect patients, staff, and visitors.
- Cleaning high-touch areas and correctly handling and disposing of waste, including sharps and hazardous materials, are central to infection control.
- Hand washing, personal hygiene, and correct PPE use are important for preventing exposure.
- Guidelines from OSHA, the CDC, and local health departments shape facility-wide safety practices, including air and water quality.
Frequently Asked Questions
Who is this course for?
It is designed for office and facilities personnel in healthcare environments, including those working in maintenance, laundry, administration, or support services.
What does this course cover?
It covers how infections spread, why infection control matters, choosing and using healthcare-standard cleaning products, how often to clean high-touch areas, handling and disposing of waste including sharps and hazardous materials, hand washing and personal hygiene, correct PPE use, and how OSHA, CDC, and local health department guidelines shape facility-wide safety practices.
What skills will I gain from this course?
The course builds skills in cleaning validation, regulatory compliance, universal precautions, waste management, and infection control.
Do I need to work in a clinical role to take this course?
No. The training is aimed at office and facilities staff such as maintenance, laundry, administration, and support services, showing how their actions can help stop infections before they start.
What topics do the lessons include?
Lessons include Facility Hygiene, Your Role In Infection Control, Infection Control Guidelines And Regulations, and a Review.
