Trainings and Webinars
When you work in a healthcare facility, no matter your role, infection control training is critical for you. Project Firstline’s training modules were designed with you in mind, so regardless of your previous training or education, we know you’ll gain critical information from this training.
Remember- you can use infection control principles to protect yourself, your facility, your family and your community.
Clean Hands Protect Patients
This course is intended for healthcare providers and reviews key concepts of hand hygiene and Standard Precautions.
Topics include:
What are Standard Precautions?
Why is hand hygiene important?
Why are Standard Precautions important?
What are some other concerns surrounding Standard Precautions?
Know how and when to perform hand hygiene as part of preventing the spread of COVID-19.
To prepare for and respond to COVID-19, apply infection prevention and control guidance for nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.
Protect residents and keep COVID-19 out of your building. Use face masks correctly, check for symptoms daily, and stay out of the building if you are sick.
Recognize new or worsening infections quickly in long-term care facilities and nursing homes. The earlier you identify sick residents, the faster COVID-19 can be prevented from spreading. Monitor sick residents to catch serious illness early.
Learn what PPE to use in long-term care facilities and nursing homes and when and how to use PPE correctly to help protect yourself and residents from COVID-19.
Know how and when to clean and disinfect environmental and equipment surfaces to keep residents healthy. Proper cleaning and disinfection are important to keep surface pathogen levels low and prevent infections from spreading.
Steps for basic infection prevention and how to help prevent the spread of COVID-19 with hand hygiene and environmental cleaning and disinfection.
Review the PPE used in dialysis facilities and learn how correctly using PPE helps prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Steps for screening patients before dialysis treatment and how appropriate patient placement can help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
Additional Project Firstline Webinars
January Project Firstline Formal Training Event - Infection Prevention and Control Actions for Preventing COVID-19
Listen in as APIAHF and our Infection Control Champions discuss variants of SARS-CoV-2, how they spread, and what it means for infection control in healthcare.
Live in-language interpretations for Zoom will be provided in: Chuukese, Mandarin Chinese, Samoan, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Post Event Recordings will be available in: Bengali, Cantonese Chinese, Hindi, Marshallese, and Native Hawaiian.
Find our in-language recordings here.
Healthcare Community Conversations: A Pandemic Perspective
Join APIAHF and our Infection Prevention Control Champions for a special conversation with CDC's Project Firstline subject matter expert Dr. Abigail Carlson, featuring questions from our healthcare audience members!
Listen in as we dive deep into various perspectives and experiences of our frontline healthcare personnel, environmental service technicians, clinical psychologists, and more!
If you have any questions please email covid@apiahf.org!
Post-event subtitling will be offered in Bangla, Chuukese, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, Hawaiian, Hindi, Marshallese, Samoan, Tagalog, and Vietnamese.
Pacific Islander Community Association
Center for the Study of Asian American Health
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA)
Philippine Nurses Association of America, Inc.