Standard Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Safe Cough Practices
Standard Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Safe Cough Practices
How do you approach a patient with a cough? Learn how you can prevent the spread of respiratory infections.
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Course Information
- Audience: Designed for ambulatory care settings, such as primary care clinics and doctor's offices. Intended audiences are administrative and clerical staff; non-licensed clinical staff; non- clinical staff; facilities staff and volunteers
- Format: Self-paced
- Price: Free
- Length: 20 Minutes
- Credential(s) eligible for contact hours: Sponsored by New England Public Health Training Center (NEPHTC), a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission for Health Education Credentialing, Inc. This program is designated for Certified Health Education Specialists (CHES) and/or Master Certified Health Education Specialists (MCHES) to receive up to 1 total Category I continuing education contact hours. Maximum advanced-level continuing education contact hours are 1. Provider ID: 1131137 Event ID: SS1131137_BIPSCP If you are not seeking CHES/MCHES contact hours, if you complete the evaluation, you will receive a Certificate of Completion. The Certificate will include the length of the course.
- Competencies: Public Health Sciences Skills
- Learning Level: Awareness
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Companion Trainings
- Foundations of Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting
- Standard Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting: The Basics of Hand Hygiene
- Standard Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Personal Protective Equipment and Safe Surfaces
- Transmission-Based Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting
- Supplemental materials: None
- Supplemental materials: None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this course
After a quick review of Standard Precautions, this course provides an overview of how to prevent respiratory infection transmission. The course may be taken in more than one sitting.
What you'll learn
After completing this course, you will be able to...
- Recall two types of respiratory infection transmission
- Recognize the correct approach to patient with a cough
- Recognize patient symptoms that require additional infection control actions
Subject Matter Expert
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David B. Banach
MD, MPHAssistant Professor of Medicine
Head of Infection Prevention
and Hospital Epidemiologist
UConn Health
Enrollment and Contact Hours
The Certificate of Completion will include the length of the module. Generally 50 – 60 minutes is equivalent to 1 contact hour. Contact hours may be applicable towards continuing education requirements for certain credentials. Check with your credentialing body to verify if the topic meets its continuing education requirements.
Having trouble accessing the course? Contact support@nephtc.org