Course Overview
The Virginia Infection Prevention Training Center’s module, Isolation and Enhanced
Barrier Precautions in Long-Term Care, provides essential guidance
on preventing the spread of infections while maintaining resident dignity.
Participants will explore challenges to isolation precautions due to resident
needs and facility constraints, identify infections that require isolation, and
understand the appropriate use of enhanced barrier precautions.
Target Audience
Target audience for this course are healthcare professionals who
are or will be directly involved in infection prevention activities in their
facilities. These are infection prevention professionals who have participated
in and gained considerable knowledge through specialized infection and control
training and who have minimal to moderate practice or fieldwork experience with
infection prevention and control concepts.
Audience examples include advanced beginner to
proficient infection preventionists and HAI/AR/IPC staff, novice to proficient
healthcare or public health epidemiologists, and antimicrobial stewardship
program pharmacists.
Overall Learning Objectives
- Identify challenges to isolation precautions
in LTC based on patient characteristics/needs and facilities resources.
- Identify specific infections that require
isolation precautions.
- Identify resident factors that necessitate
enhanced barrier precautions.
- Discuss the difference between isolation
precautions and enhanced barrier precautions.
Continuing Education Credit
Continuing education (CE)
credit is not available for this course.
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VIPTC’s Courses in Infection
Prevention and Control in Long-Term Care
The Infection
Prevention & Control for Long-Term Care Settings playlist
covers critical infection prevention and control topics tailored to the unique setting
of long-term care. Participants will explore essential strategies for reducing
infections, improving isolation protocols, and implementing antimicrobial
stewardship. Ideal for infection preventionists, administrators, and frontline
staff, this playlist includes four key courses:
