Infection Control Committee Lead Program

COURSE DESCRIPTION / AIMS

This course aims to equip and update learners on infection control principles and practices to enable them to function effectively in their respective clinical areas. As infection prevention and control is an integral part of healthcare delivery, nurses and health professionals have an important role to play to ensure that their own safety, safety of other healthcare workers, clients and visitors. 

Surveillance is an essential component of an effective infection prevention and control program. It is an organized method for collecting, analyzing and sharing information to improve the outcome being measured. Therefore, it is important for

learners to understand the surveillance methods, data collection, analysis and interpretation to prevent or reduce infection rates. 

A trained infection control committee lead will be able to provide adequate oversight over the infection control process, and ensure the organisation has an infection control program, documented infection control activities and written policies/ guidelines to deal with any outbreak. The ICC lead will also be able to coordinate and monitor compliance with internal infection control procedures and ensure proper disinfection and disposal of infectious waste materials by licensed biohazard waste disposal operators, in accordance with all relevant laws and requirements.  

COURSE OBJECTIVES / OUTLINE 

At the end of the course, learners should be able to: 

1.  Explain the epidemiology of infectious diseases 
2. Discuss the chain of infection in disease transmission 
3. Understand the morphology of micro-organisms and disease-causing pathogens
4. State the components of infection control programme 
5. Identify the roles and responsibilities of infection control committee members
6. Discuss the components of standard and transmission-based precautions
7. Illustrate preventive measures to control spread of infectious diseases
8. Outline key principles in environmental cleaning guidelines 
9. State the major steps in outbreak management
10. Recognize the important aspects in pandemic preparedness 
11. Describe the overview of renovation and construction 
12. Understand the principles of conducting IPC audits
13. Identify improvement opportunities to enhance and sustain IPC 
14. Explain the needs for IPC training and education
15. Role of Antimicrobial Management in NH Facilities
16. Understand the definition and objectives of surveillance 
17. Understand the essential elements for surveillance of healthcare associated infections 
18. Learn the surveillance methodology 
19. Learn the process of collecting surveillance data 
20. Learn how to calculate and analyzed surveillance data 
21. Learn the importance of communicating results of healthcare associated infection surveillance 
22. Learn how to identify healthcare associated infection outbreak from surveillance data 

TRAINING METHODOLOGY 

• Lecture with structured activities 
• Group discussions  
• Case discussion 

ASSESSMENT  

• Theory Test 

Please Note:

A minimum of 75% attendance will be required for you to complete the programme and receive your certificate.
Prevailing course fee subsidy at 90% for Singapore Citizens / Permanent Residents and 45% for Work Pass Holders working in eligible community care organisations.
If you are in AIC’s list of CCOs, please sign up via AIC LMS.
For any inquiries or if you are not in AIC’s list of Community Care Organisations, please contact Sandy/Nicholas at 64221300 or email us at cti@kwsh.org.sg to register.

Nurse Managers / Nurses/ Enrolled Nurses,  ICC Lead,
Infection Control link Nurses,  Allied Healthcare Professionals