✔️ Identify the professional's responsibility to monitor infection prevention practices.
✔️ Describe how pathogens are spread and discuss strategies for preventing transmission of these
organisms.
✔️ Describe how infection prevention concepts are applied in professional practice.
✔️ Define "engineering controls" and "work-practice controls" and describe the causes of most common needlestick injuries.
✔️ Identify isolation precautions and discuss the use of personal protective equipment.
✔️ Discuss hand hygiene options for healthcare professionals.
✔️ Identify strategies for effective pre-cleaning, chemical disinfection, and sterilization of instruments and devices.
✔️ Identify occupational health strategies for preventing communicable diseases in healthcare workers and discuss resources available for evaluation of healthcare workers infected with HIV, HBV, and HCV.
