Transmission-Based Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting
What actions should you take with a patient who may have a serious infectious disease? Learn about Transmission-Based Precautions, practical steps that protect you, your patients and your co-workers from infection.
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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: 25 Minutes credentials):
- 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_BIPTBP 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: Safe Cough Practices
- Standard Precautions in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Personal Protective Equipment and Safe Surfaces
- Supplemental materials: None
- Pre-requisites: None
About this course
This self-study course introduces learners to Transmission-Based Precautions. This course provides an overview of why and when Transmission-Based Precautions should be used, along with examples of how these precautions can be applied in the ambulatory care setting. The course may be taken in more than one sitting.
What you'll learn
After completing this course, you will be able to...
- Define Transmission-Based Precautions
- Recall the three categories of Transmission-Based Precautions
- Describe the unique features of each category of Transmission-Based Precautions
- Recognize when to use each category of Transmission-Based Precautions
- Recognize when to combine Transmission-Based Precautions
Subject Matter Expert
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Louise-Marie Dembry
MD, FACP, MS, MBAProfessor of Medicine
(Infectious Diseases)
and of Epidemiology
(Microbial Diseases);
Director, Hospital Epidemiology
VA CT Healthcare System
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