Infection Control: Preventing and Controlling Infectious Diseases, Including COVID-19 (rev)

Our bestseller 6-hour infection control training CEU course for nursing, occupational therapy, and other healthcare professionals. Course includes infection prevention and control practices, coronavirus (COVID-19) considerations, the chain of infection, standard and transmission-based precautions, barriers and use of personal protective equipment (PPE), and strategies for preventing the spread of infectious disease to healthcare workers and patients.

1) Summarize the goals of infection prevention and control.
2) Describe pathogenic organisms and the chain of infection.
3) Explain methods to prevent the spread of infection.
4) Discuss engineering, work practice, and environmental controls that protect against healthcare-associated infections.
5) Identify barriers and personal protective equipment for protection from exposure to potentially infectious material.
6) Discuss efforts designed to minimize the risk of occupational exposures to infectious diseases.
7) Recognize suspected sepsis and methods to prevent it.

Nursing
Paramedic/EMT
Occupational Therapy
Physical Therapy

Nursing, Paramedic/EMT, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy:
Infection prevention and control practices, the chain of infection, methods to prevent the spread of infection, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), strategies to minimize the risk of occupational exposures to infectious diseases.

Nursing:

Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.

Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.

AOTA Approved CE Provider

Occupational Therapy:

Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 08548. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 0.6 CEUs, Introductory, Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

Nurse planners, content experts, faculty, and others in control of content (either individually or as a group) have no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies.

This course was not Joint Provided. No outside commercial support was received for the creation of this course material.

Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.

California PT Board Continuing Competency Agency

Physical Therapy:

Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.

CA EMSA Approved CE Provider

EMT/Paramedic:

Course Availability: Expires October 1, 2026. You must score 70% or better on the test and complete the course evaluation to earn a certificate of completion for this CE activity. Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., provides educational activities that are free from bias. The information provided in this course is to be used for educational purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional healthcare.

Occupational Therapy:
Wild Iris Medical Education, Inc., is an AOTA Approved Provider of professional development. Course Approval ID# 08548. This independent distance learning activity is offered at 6.00 CEUs, xxx aotaEdLevel xxx, Foundational Knowledge. The assignment of AOTA CEUs does not imply endorsement of specific course content, products, or clinical procedures by AOTA.

All Professions:
NEW YORK HEALTH PROFESSIONALS: Take the NY version of this course.

Nursing:
NEW YORK NURSES: Take the NY version of this course.

Physical Therapy:
FLORIDA PT: This course is not approved for PTs/PTAs in Florida.

Infection Control
Infectious Disease
Emergency Nursing
Home Health
Infection Control/Public Health
Workplace Safety (OSHA) & Accident Prevention
Medical
Special Considerations
Foundational Knowledge
Infection Control
Infectious Disease

Judith Swan, MSN, BSN, ADN:
Judith Swan has been in the healthcare field for over fifty years, beginning as a medic in the U.S. Air Force. As an RN, she has worked in mental health, emergency, orthopedics, hospice, and medical/surgical. She holds an MSN as a family nurse practitioner. Judith's experience in nursing education includes teaching psychiatric, long-term, and dementia nursing care and as director of a nursing assistant college program. She has written ancillary educational materials for nursing textbooks, curricula for nursing assistant programs, online health articles, and continuing education courses since 2012.

Leslie R. Crane, EdD, MSN, RN:
Leslie Crane has been an RN since 1973. She teaches in the RN, LVN, CNA, and home health aide programs at Santa Rosa Junior College in California. She graduated from Sonoma State University with an MSN and the University of Phoenix with an EdD in educational technology. Her clinical background is primarily in adult critical care. Leslie loves teaching nursing students and "infecting" them with her enthusiasm for the profession, passion for life-long learning, and commitment to a high level of accountability.