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Infection Control: Norovirus

Norovirus preventionEvery year at least 300,000 NHS patients develop healthcare associated infections. Reducing HCAI and improving cleanliness across all healthcare settings is the responsibility of everyone.

Healthcare Acquired Infection has attracted lots of media attention in the UK to date. People in the community expect substantially improved hand hygiene practices among health professionals.

As the MRSA and C.Diff courses are 1.5 hours each we'd encourage you to have at least two of the courses in an afternoon or morning session to maximise value for money.

Course Title: Management of Norovirus Outbreak

Who can attend this course?

NHS Nursing and healthcare assistants, Nursing Managers; Care Home Managers, Nurses and Carers working in Care Homes; Domiciliary Workers; Staff working in GP and Dentists; Domestics & Domestic Supervisors; Food Handlers.

Training manuals and a certificate of attendance are provided to all course attendees.

Course Aim:

To gain a working knowledge of management and control of norovirus outbreak

Objectives:

By the end of this session, learners will be able to:

  • Recognise development of norovirus outbreak

  • Identify patients/individuals at risk of developing norovirus

  • Demonstrate infection control measures to manage and control norovirus outbreak

  • Demonstrate how to manage patients affected with norovirus

  • Identify where to seek support from for managing norovirus outbreak

Course Length: 1.5hr

Course Facilitators: Experienced NHS trainers

Call to find our more about our rates on 0870 118 8000. You Come To Us or We Come To You!

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About Worksafe UK

As you may already know, Worksafe UK is one of the largest Health & Safety Training companies in the UK today including Workstation DSE Risk Assessor Training, Manual Handling Training and Fire Warden Training and Competent Person Training to name a few.

For your peace of mind, all our trainers are highly experienced and each with many years of service in the Health & Safety field. Their experience allows them to go 'off script' where necessary to deal with questions relating to issues specific to your workplace.

Call 0870 118 8000 now for more information.