Third Nursing Infection Prevention and Control Training
A hospital-acquired infection, also known as a HAI or in medical literature as a nosocomial infection, is an infection whose development is favoured by a hospital environment, such as one acquired by a patient during a hospital visit or one developing among hospital staff. Such infections include fungal and bacterial infections and are aggravated by the reduced resistance of individual patients. However; nosocomial infections cause significant morbidity and mortality in out-patients clinic and hospitalized patients. Nosocomial infections are commonly transmitted when hospital officials become complacent and personnel do not practice correct standard precautions for example; hand washing. Moreover, some medical procedures bypass the body's natural protective barriers which can also increase the risk. Since medical staff, particularly nurse, move from patient to patient, they serve as a means for spreading pathogens.
Aims and Objectives:
This training is intended for those nurses who have been working in the health sector for a long time in adult units. This program specifically aims to:
1. Increase the knowledge of health care nurses about current trends for the infection control.
2. Identify theoretical and practical of infection control preventives.
3. Discuss the nurse's role in infection control prevention.
4. Facilitate continuing nursing education by encouraging and assisting in the development of specialty programs in cooperation with the MOH.
Target Group:
This course is designed nurses from the governmental health care hospitals of different districts at the west bank, who are working at the adult department.
Location and Time:
The training will be held in Best Eastern Hotel, Ramallah city in Wednesday of January 15, 2014.
Gender: Males and Females.
Age: no age limit.
Project implementation:
The training will be implemented over one day (7 hours(.
Schedule Training: See Attachment
Speaker:
Mr. Jihad Khair, Augusta Victoria Hospital, Deputy of Nursing Director, and Infection Control Nurse.
