This is a 21 minute video that describes what a team should look for while conducting environmental rounds in a healthcare facility.
3 – Intermediate
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Adult Day Care
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Auditing / Observation / Monitoring / Assessment Tools
Behavioral Health Facilities
Cleaning and Disinfection
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Dialysis
Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
English
Free
Hand Hygiene
Hospice and Palliative Care
Infection Preventionists
Injection Safety
Mobile Clinic
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Pediatric / NICU
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
Quality Improvement
Risk Assessment
SPICE
Standard Precautions
Video
This is a 5 page checklist that is intended for teams that are conducting infection prevention environmental rounding. It is designed for rounding in a hospital, but as a WORD-based document, can be adapted for other healthcare settings.
3 – Intermediate
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Adult Day Care
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Auditing / Observation / Monitoring / Assessment Tools
Behavioral Health Facilities
Checklist
Cleaning and Disinfection
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Dental
Department of Health
Dialysis
Downloadable
English
Free
High Level Disinfection
Hospice and Palliative Care
Infection Preventionists
Injection Safety
Mobile Clinic
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Pediatric / NICU
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
Quality Improvement
Risk Assessment
SPICE
Standard Precautions
Sterile Processing
This is a 25:55 minute video in which Dr. William Rutala conducts a tour through the Central Processing Area of a hospital. He explains all parts of the disinfection- sterilization- packaging and sterility process.
3 – Intermediate
Acute Care Hospital
Acute Care Rehabilitation or Long-Term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Cleaning and Disinfection
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
English
Free
Infection Preventionists
Non-Clinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Pediatric / NICU
SPICE
Sterile Processing
Video
This is an online course with 5 modules intended to provide infection preventionists with the understanding about how high level disinfection and sterilization are performed, how a facility can prevent infections due to improper reprocessing and how a facility can assure regulatory compliance. The modules are: 1) Physical Plant Design, 2) Spaulding Classification Scheme, 3) Decontamination, Precleaning, and Transport, 4) High-Level Disinfection (HLD), and 5) Sterilization Process.
SPICE
IPC Intermediate Level
English
Video
CNE
CEU
Infection Preventionist
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Acute Care Rehabilitation Hospital or Long-term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Acute Care Hospital
Pediatric/NICU
Dental
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
Cleaning & Disinfection
High-Level Disinfection
Sterile Processing
Auditing/ Observation/ Monitoring/ Assessment Tools
Regulatory Compliance
Outbreak Investigation
Surgical Site Infection (SSI)
This is a 5:56 minute video that can help a team conducting environmental rounding to understand how patient care equipment should be stored throughout a healthcare facility.
SPICE
IPC Foundational Level
English
Video
Closed Captioning
Nonclinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Infection Preventionist
All Settings
Behavioral Health Facilities
Adult Day Care
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Home Health
Dialysis
Hospice & Palliative Care
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Ambulatory Surgery
Acute Care Rehabilitation Hospital or Long-term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Mobile Clinic
Acute Care Hospital
Emergency Medical Services (EMS)
Pediatric/NICU
Dental
Department of Health
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
This is a 1 hour, 20 minute video presentation that can be used to orient new employees to the principles and practice of infection prevention. Slides used in the presentation are available at:
https://spice.unc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/IP-Orientation-toolkit-slides-for-toolkit-1.pdf
CDC
IPC Essentials Level
English
Video
Slideshow
Downloadable
Nonclinical / Indirect Healthcare Personnel
Clinical / Direct Healthcare Personnel
Infection Preventionist
Behavioral Health Facilities
Adult Day Care
Assisted Living Facility (ALF)
Nursing Home / Skilled Nursing Facility (SNF)
Home Health
Dialysis
Hospice & Palliative Care
Ambulatory (Outpatient) Care
Acute Care Rehabilitation Hospital or Long-term Care Acute Hospital (LTACH)
Acute Care Hospital
Pediatric/NICU
Hand Hygiene
Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Standard Precautions
Transmission-Based Precautions
Physical Environment / Environment of Care (EOC)
Cleaning & Disinfection
Injection Safety
Bloodborne Pathogens
Respiratory Infections
Multidrug Resistant Organisms (MDRO)
Tuberculosis
Influenza
COVID-19
