Basic Infection Prevention & Control Training for Healthcare Professionals
Strengthen your knowledge of Basic Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practices with the ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Course in Abu Dhabi offered by MEDWAY Training & Consultancy L.L.C.
This foundational healthcare training program is designed to help healthcare professionals and healthcare support staff understand how infections spread, how transmission can be interrupted, and how effective infection-control practices can be applied in everyday healthcare environments.
The course covers the chain of infection, standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, hand hygiene, Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), environmental sanitation, cleaning and disinfection, healthcare waste management, sharps safety, exposure management, healthcare-associated infection prevention, and basic outbreak-control principles.
Why Choose MEDWAY for Basic Infection Control Training?
Infection prevention and control is a shared responsibility across hospitals, clinics, medical centres, laboratories, long-term care facilities, and other healthcare environments.
MEDWAY's ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Training provides structured and practical learning to help participants understand infection risks and apply appropriate preventive measures during routine healthcare activities.
ACTVET Approved Training
The applicable Basic Infection Control program is delivered as an ACTVET Approved training program, providing a structured learning framework for foundational infection-control knowledge.
Healthcare-Focused Learning
Training focuses on infection-control practices and situations relevant to healthcare professionals and support personnel.
Practical Infection-Control Education
Participants learn how infection transmission can be interrupted through appropriate precautions, hand hygiene, PPE use, environmental cleaning, and safe healthcare practices.
Interactive Training
Sessions may include practical examples, healthcare scenarios, demonstrations, case discussions, group discussions, and knowledge checks.
Professional Development
Strengthen foundational infection-control knowledge as part of your continuing professional development.
ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Training
The Basic Infection Control Course provides foundational knowledge of infection prevention and control for healthcare professionals and healthcare support personnel.
The course is designed to support participants in understanding basic infection-control principles and applying appropriate preventive measures within their professional environment.
ACTVET approval applies to the specific applicable training program and its approved requirements. Participants should complete the required attendance, participation, assessment, and course-completion requirements applicable to the program.
The training covers both fundamental knowledge and practical infection-control principles that can be applied in everyday healthcare settings.
Who Should Attend?
The ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Course is suitable for healthcare professionals and support personnel who require foundational infection-control knowledge.
Clinical & Healthcare Professionals
- Physicians
- Registered Nurses
- Healthcare Assistants
- Allied Healthcare Professionals
- Infection-Control Staff
- Laboratory Personnel
- Dental Healthcare Staff
- Clinical Support Personnel
- Long-Term Care Clinicians
Healthcare Support & Facility Teams
- Pharmacists
- Healthcare Administrators
- Facility Caregivers
- Healthcare Support Workers
- Clinic and Hospital Support Staff
- Environmental Hygiene Personnel
- Long-Term Care Facility Staff
- Healthcare Facility Support Personnel
Key Topics Covered
1. Chain of Infection
Understand the fundamental components involved in the transmission of infectious diseases.
Participants will learn about:
- Infectious agents
- Reservoirs
- Portals of exit
- Modes of transmission
- Portals of entry
- Susceptible hosts
- Methods for breaking the chain of infection
2. Standard & Transmission-Based Precautions
Learn fundamental precautions used to reduce infection-transmission risks in healthcare settings.
Topics include:
- Standard precautions
- Contact precautions
- Droplet precautions
- Airborne precautions
- Hand hygiene
- Appropriate PPE selection
- Safe PPE use
- Donning and doffing principles
- Respiratory hygiene
- Prevention of cross-contamination
3. Hand Hygiene
Participants will learn:
- Importance of hand hygiene
- Handwashing principles
- Alcohol-based hand rub
- Appropriate hand hygiene practices
- When hand hygiene should be performed
- Common hand hygiene errors
- Prevention of cross-contamination
- Hand hygiene during routine patient care
4. Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
Topics include:
- Gloves
- Masks
- Eye protection
- Face protection
- Protective gowns
- Aprons
- PPE selection according to risk
- Donning and doffing principles
- Safe PPE disposal
- Prevention of contamination during PPE removal
5. Cleaning, Disinfection & Environmental Sanitation
Participants will understand:
- Environmental cleaning principles
- Difference between cleaning and disinfection
- Surface disinfection
- High-touch surfaces
- Appropriate use of disinfectants
- Contact-time awareness
- Safe chemical handling
- Prevention of environmental cross-contamination
- Basic sterilization concepts
6. Healthcare Safety Protocols
The course introduces essential safety practices associated with healthcare waste, sharps, and exposure incidents.
Topics include:
- Healthcare waste segregation
- Infectious waste handling
- Sharps waste management
- Appropriate disposal containers
- Biohazard safety
- Safe handling of needles and sharps
- Prevention of needlestick injuries
- Exposure incident awareness
- Reporting and following facility-approved exposure-management procedures
7. Outbreak Management
Participants will learn basic concepts related to:
- Recognizing potential infection clusters
- Early reporting and escalation
- Basic containment principles
- Appropriate infection-control precautions
- Communication during an infection event
- Supporting infection-control teams
- Preventing further transmission
8. Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention
Participants will explore:
- Cross-contamination risks
- Safe patient-care practices
- Hand hygiene compliance
- Appropriate PPE use
- Environmental hygiene
- Safe equipment handling
- Standard precautions
- Infection-control responsibilities
ACTVET Approval & Certification
The Basic Infection Control Course offered by MEDWAY is ACTVET Approved for the applicable training program.
ACTVET, the Abu Dhabi Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, provides the applicable regulatory framework for technical and vocational education and training in Abu Dhabi.
Participants are required to meet the applicable course requirements, which may include:
- Required attendance
- Active participation
- Knowledge assessment
- Course completion requirements
- Applicable documentation requirements
Successful participants may receive the relevant ACTVET Approved course completion certificate, subject to the applicable program requirements.
Organizations requiring infection-control training for a specific regulatory, contractual, licensing, workplace, or facility requirement should confirm the required certification before registration.
Learning Outcomes
After completing the ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Course, participants should be able to:
- Explain the basic chain of infection
- Identify common routes of infection transmission
- Apply fundamental hand hygiene principles
- Explain standard precautions
- Recognize transmission-based precautions
- Select appropriate PPE according to risk
- Apply basic environmental cleaning and disinfection principles
- Follow safer sharps-handling practices
- Understand basic healthcare waste-management principles
- Recognize potential exposure incidents
- Describe basic outbreak-recognition and containment principles
- Identify common infection-control risks
- Apply measures to reduce cross-contamination
- Support safer infection-prevention practices within healthcare environments
Basic Infection Control Training Online
This course is also available as a live online class on Zoom or Microsoft Teams, in addition to classroom training at our Khalifa Street centre. A self-paced online version is also available if you prefer to study in your own time. You learn in real time with a MEDWAY trainer, ask questions and complete the course assessment online.
Individuals and organizations can book online classes on dates arranged around their requirement. Teams can join together from their own workplace. Visit our Online Training page or message us on WhatsApp to book.
ACTVET approved: the online sessions for this course are approved by ACTVET (Abu Dhabi Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training). Participants who successfully complete the course and assessment requirements receive the ACTVET approved certificate, the same as in the classroom.
Frequently Asked Questions
1. What is the ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Course?
It is a foundational infection-prevention and control training program covering the chain of infection, hand hygiene, PPE, standard precautions, transmission-based precautions, environmental sanitation, healthcare waste, sharps safety, healthcare-associated infection prevention, and outbreak awareness.
2. Is the Basic Infection Control Course ACTVET Approved?
Yes. MEDWAY offers an ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control program. The applicable approval applies to the specific program and its approved requirements.
3. What does ACTVET approval mean?
ACTVET stands for the Abu Dhabi Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training. It provides the applicable regulatory framework for technical and vocational education and training in Abu Dhabi.
4. Who can attend the Basic Infection Control Course?
The course can be suitable for physicians, nurses, healthcare assistants, pharmacists, allied healthcare professionals, laboratory personnel, caregivers, clinical support staff, and other healthcare workers, subject to the applicable course eligibility requirements.
5. Is the course suitable for nurses?
Yes. The course provides foundational infection-control knowledge relevant to nursing practice and patient care.
6. Is the course suitable for doctors?
Yes. Physicians can strengthen their understanding of standard precautions, PPE, hand hygiene, transmission prevention, and fundamental infection-control practices.
7. Is the course suitable for healthcare assistants and caregivers?
Yes. The course provides practical infection-control knowledge relevant to everyday healthcare and patient-support activities.
8. Does the course cover the chain of infection?
Yes. The course explains infectious agents, reservoirs, portals of exit and entry, modes of transmission, susceptible hosts, and methods of interrupting transmission.
9. Does the course cover hand hygiene?
Yes. Hand hygiene is one of the core topics of the Basic Infection Control Course.
10. Does the course include PPE training?
Yes. Participants learn about common PPE, appropriate selection, safe use, donning and doffing principles, and prevention of contamination.
11. Does the course cover transmission-based precautions?
Yes. The course introduces contact, droplet, and airborne precautions and their basic application.
12. Does the course cover environmental cleaning?
Yes. Environmental sanitation, cleaning, surface disinfection, high-touch surfaces, and contamination prevention are included.
13. Does the course cover healthcare waste management?
Yes. Participants learn the basic principles of healthcare waste segregation, infectious waste handling, sharps disposal, and biohazard safety.
14. Does the course cover outbreak management?
Yes. Participants learn basic principles of early recognition, reporting, containment, precautions, communication, and prevention of further transmission.
15. Will I receive an ACTVET Approved certificate?
Participants who successfully complete the applicable attendance, assessment, and course requirements may receive the relevant course completion certificate according to the approved program's certification process.
16. Is the ACTVET certificate suitable for workplace requirements?
Suitability depends on the employer, healthcare facility, authority, contract, or specific regulatory requirement. Organizations should confirm their required certification before registration.
17. Is previous infection-control experience required?
The course is designed as foundational training, so extensive prior infection-control experience is generally not required. Specific eligibility requirements may vary according to the scheduled activity.
18. Can hospitals arrange group infection-control training?
Yes. Hospitals, clinics, medical centers, and other healthcare organizations can contact MEDWAY to discuss applicable group-training arrangements.
19. Can MEDWAY provide infection-control training for healthcare facilities?
Yes. MEDWAY can discuss organizational training requirements based on staff roles, learning objectives, group size, and applicable training arrangements.
20. How long is the ACTVET Approved Basic Infection Control Course?
The duration depends on the specific MEDWAY training schedule and approved activity structure. Contact MEDWAY for the current course duration and upcoming dates.
Why Choose MEDWAY?
MEDWAY Training & Consultancy L.L.C. focuses on delivering practical, healthcare-relevant professional training designed to support safer clinical practice and continuing professional development.
Our infection-control training emphasizes:
- ACTVET Approved applicable training
- Healthcare-focused learning
- Practical infection-prevention principles
- Interactive instruction
- Professional development
- Structured course content