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The COVID-19 pandemic affects older people disproportionately, especially those living in long-term care facilities (LTCF) with significant impact on mortality and morbidity. Concerted action is needed to mitigate the impact of COVID-19 by enhancing infection prevention and control (IPC) measures within LTCF.
In many countries, long-term care facilities have weak IPC systems and training in place and staff lack the access to information on limiting transmission in the context of COVID-19. Strengthening IPC practice is crucial to prevent spread of COVID-19. The COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Control Communication Toolkit for Long-Term Care Facilities provides simple and actionable visuals for staff, residents and visitors with key IPC messages. The COVID-19 Preparedness Checklist is a tool consisting of several elements that are crucial for preparing LTCF for COVID-19. It can be used by facility administrators, IPC focal points or staff, internal or external professionals.
This course consists of 4 modules that address infection prevention and control measures to support LTCF in the context of COVID-19.
Learning objectives
By the end of this course, participants should be able to:
- Describe infection prevention and control principles and practices relevant to long-term care facilities for patient and staff safety during COVID-19
- Apply the COVID-19 Long-term Care Facility Checklist to their place of work
- Identify practices to safely manage long-term care facility residents during COVID-19
- Understand how to support themselves and each other as staff of long-term care facilities during COVID-19
Course duration
Approximately 2 hours.
Certificates
A Record of Achievement will be available to participants who score at least 80% of the total points available across all of the quizzes.
Published in GI-Mail 03/2022 (English edition).
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