Infection Prevention and Control (IPC)
Course
Exclusive quality-assured RCN course.
Online and Face-to-face
Available to RCN members - Available to RCNi Plus subscribers
Applicable for any nurse with a RCN membership
Who is this resource for?
This resource is aimed at nurses and nursing support workers across all settings and levels of practice, including students of health, social work and care professions.
Course information
Who is this programme for?
The RCN Infection Prevention and Control Programme (IPC) will suit those whose roles contain a focus on the prevention of infection working in the NHS, independent sector and social care organisations at Band 6 and 7 or equivalent.
What will I learn?
- skills to fight antimicrobial resistance
- how to lead a service improvement project in your workplace
- the most effective way to manage change in your place of work
- experience coaching as a supportive development tool and understand how to coach colleagues.
Contact
How to sign up
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The programme is delivered virtually and includes:
- three half days of live virtual delivery
- three half days of pre-recorded teaching and podcasts
- wrap-around online learning; discussion forum
- one to one telephone coaching sessions
- e-portfolio and a workbook to reflect on learning and skill development
- up to three experience days to assist with project development as needed by the delegate (optional, to be organised by the participant).
The programme delivery will consider the training needs and organisational responses about the following issues:
Critical appraisal and exploration of current healthcare provision and outcomes including the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic; national policy, frameworks and guidance; considering the obstacles and barriers to healthcare equality and ‘parity of esteem’ in the local and national context
The individual practitioner’s role in addressing inequalities in access to holistic healthcare, such as the mortality gap for those with serious mental illness (SMI)
Considering organisational culture and ways of working in relation to physical and mental healthcare provision, unmet need, service gaps and opportunities for change
Opportunities to learn from each other’s experiences and discuss the areas of clinical skills overlap, including self-harm and wound care, assessment of the deteriorating patient and assessment and promotion of mental wellbeing
Exploration around the development of responsive services for current and future populations
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