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    Infection Prevention and Control Level 7

    Mode of study
    Part time
    Credits
    15
    Course code
    NUR-40073
    Contact details
    Contact Course Administration Office
    Contact email
    nursing.cpd@keele.ac.uk
    Starting months
    March 2020

    Course Overview

    This module has been developed with clinical colleagues and ensures that students undertaking it enhance their knowledge and skills within this specialty. The module focuses on infection prevention and control in acute and community and global settings.

    Overview

    Excellence in infection prevention and control lies at the heart of patient care. Due to the changes and developments within health and social care delivery, this module has been developed to mirror contemporary thinking in infection prevention and control.

    This module has been developed with clinical colleagues and ensures that students undertaking it enhance their knowledge and skills within this specialty. The module focuses on infection prevention and control in acute and community and global settings.

    The mainstay is to underpin standard precautions in order to protect patients, relatives, colleagues and ourselves from infection. Following completion of the module, students will have developed the knowledge and skills required to implement contemporary infection prevention and control principles into their everyday practice, understand the challenges of use of antimicrobials, and help to reduce the rate of health and social care associated infections in their workplace and wider communities.

    Module aims

    To enable the healthcare professional to develop their underpinning knowledge and application of infection prevention and control principles in the workplace.

    Entry requirements

    • All candidates will hold current first level professional registration with a relevant regulatory body, eg. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC). 
    • Candidates will normally work in a healthcare setting and in a role relevant to the module.
    • Evidence of successful study at Level 6.

    Module content

    Module content will include:

    • Epidemiology of healthcare associated infections, to include hospital and community acquired infections.
    • Contemporary issues in infection prevention and control, to include international, national and local perspectives and developments, evidenced based infection prevention and control practices, national infection prevention and control agenda.
    • The Health and Social Care Act (2008). Code of practice for health and social care on the prevention and control of health care associated infections and related guidance and other key legislation, policy and local standards related to infection prevention and control.
    • Public policy, public health and environmental health.
    • The interface between hospital and community and infection prevention and control.
    • Hospital and community hygiene.
    • Pathogenesis of human disease.
    • The chain of infection and host risk factors.
    • Principles of microbiology, virology and immunology.
    • Outbreak control and prevention strategies.
    • Organisms of clinical significance, to include MRSA and C.Difficile.
    • Antibiotic prescribing and antimicrobial agents.
    • Management of the physical, psychological and emotional impact of infection upon the patient/client, relatives and professional staff.
    • The environment of care and infection prevention and control, high risk settings and factors.
    • High risk situations regrading infection prevention and control e.g. care of the immuno-suppressed patient.
    • Prevention and management of infection; to include risk assessment and management, clinical governance, surveillance, clinical audit.
    • Developing infection control practice, to include the use of teaching and learning initiatives to develop and inform workplace developments.
    • Legal, socio-economic and professional aspects of infection prevention and control.

         -  Critical reflection

         - Change management

         - Academic writing and reading

         - Develop referencing skills

         - Poster development skills

         - Presentation skills

         - Oral exam skills

    This module will take a blended learning approach including lead lectures, master classes from clinical experts, on line resources, simulation. Face to face content will be supported by pre and post session activities using the KLE.

    Teaching and assessment

    The principal learning and teaching methods used in the module may include:

    • Lectures, seminars and workshops: The core of each module delivery mode is a series of face to face tutor-led or group-led seminars or workshops.
    • Web-based learning using the Keele Learning Environment (KLE), Blackboard. 
    • Group work and peer support. All modules use focused group work and class discussions within face to face tutor time.
    • Directed independent study. Most of the study hours for each module comprise independent learning by expecting participants to add depth and breadth to their knowledge of topics, to practice skills and to reflect on critical incidents and their practice. 

    Please note: In your programme you may sometimes be expected to role play and engage in simulated clinical scenarios with other students, such as the practice and observation of practical skills in physical contact with other students. For some specific practices, this may necessitate modification of dress - e.g., to shorts and t-shirt. These activities will be conducted in a professional, safe, respectful and culturally sensitive way, under the supervision of academic staff, according to a defined protocol. This does not apply to Clinical Pharmacy practice modules as all of these modules are distance learning.