Course Description:

This course provides home care and hospice clinicians with essential knowledge required to understand issues relative to infection and infection prevention. Infections are often an underestimated home care problem. The home is a unique setting that presents with distinctive challenges as compared to hospitals and other inpatient settings. The Medicare Conditions of Participation as well as accreditation organizations require that home care agencies maintain an infection control program that includes surveillance, infection identification, and prevention and control of infections. Part one of this course begins with an overview of issues specific to home care and infection control. The remainder of the course focuses on application of Standard Precautions as applied in the home care setting.