Educating Health Workers on the Importance of Learning About Infection Control

The chain of infection is a basic principle for preventing and controlling the spread of infection and thus provides a rationale for infection control. When all six links in the chain are broken, infection is unable to spread. Breaking the chain means eliminating conditions on which the infection depends. This can be done by understanding basic strategies and practices which might reduce microorganism transmission. For hospital acquired infections (HAI), a number of facts draw attention. The colonized and already infected patients with a variety of pathogens share the same environment including health workers, hospital equipment, and patients. Standard Infection Control Practices (SICP) can prevent the spread of these pathogens among patients, and between patients and health care workers (HCWs) (The guidelines which must underlie SICP are described in the Infection Prevention and Control course supported by the six-flag strategies; clean care is safer care. Bio safety measures in outpatient settings, scientific knowledge, technical capacity, and the six-flag strategy implementation with standard airing practices (SAP) are the keys to protecting patients, health workers, and care givers, from exposure to infection in healthcare provision. During the working day, health workers may be exposed by needle stick injuries, and splashes to microorganism and blood born pathogens. As a consequence of the repair of the transmission and continuous exposure, they may acquire infections that can be prevented using SAP. Understanding transmission and risk factors has effective relevance in the elimination of those that are under the control of the HCW, and the reduction of those that are not. Standard a culpation practices only require knowledge in order to be implemented.