Infection Prevention and Control
Course Work 1 Slide Presentation
1. Choose a specific area of infection prevention and control that is important to your work now (or work you may have undertaken previously).
2. Produce both a practice based (make sure you ensure confidentiality) and literature based rationale for your choice of area.
3. Draw on the chain of infection framework and choose the most relevant link in the chain.
4. Explain to colleagues what they should be doing to break that link (include when, where and why etc).
5. Ensure that each part of your explanation can clearly be linked back to your critical reading of the relevant and contemporary evidence (policy, research, guidelines etc).
6.Prepare and present a presentation which could be used within a department meeting for colleagues’.
Maximum of 10 slides excluding your title slide and reference list and up to 10 minutes of audio (in total for whole presentation).
Title and brief description a specific area of Infection Prevention Control (IPC) that is important to your work now (or previously).
Consider practice based and literature based rationale for your choice of IPC. Demonstrate original thinking, critical analysis and evaluation.
Use the materials from unit 10 to present your rationale.
Use the materials from units 2-7 to discuss the most relevant link in the chain of infection framework. Including an explanation to colleagues of what they should be doing to break that link and when, were and why.
Unit 2: Pathogens
Unit 3: Reservoirs of infection
Unit 4: Portals of Exit
Unit 5: Modes of Transmission
Unit 6: Portals of Entry
Unit 7: Susceptible hosts
Provide a script to support your audio
Ten slides, words on each slide 100, total – 1000 words it can be changed on each slides according to the subject,
