Making It Work!
This section is designed to help you find ways to apply the content of the modules to your everyday work. The following links will take you to pages in the "Making It Work" sections within each module. To return to this page, use the "back" button on your browser. Use the navigation within the module's "Making It Work" section to review that module's content.
Disease Transmission:
- Correcting Misconceptions - Before you can successfully change practices in your facility, it is important to correct staff members' misconceptions about infections, transmission, and risks.
- Implementing and Managing an Infection Prevention Program - This essay gives practical advice on how to institute and manage an infection prevention program at your facility.
- Forms for printing - The following assessment survey and user's guide, both optimized for printing, can be used for ongoing assessment of practices at your facility.
- Infection Prevention Assessment Survey
- User's Guide to the Infection Prevention Assessment Survey
- These files are also available here as a text download that you can save on your computer and open in any word processing program: Survey download: survey.txt; User's Guide download: guide.txt
Handwashing:
- Improving Handwashing Practices - Information about the factors that affect staff handwashing behavior.
- Tips and Educational Activities
- Strategies for Low-Resource Settings
- Educational Aids - Print out the following materials for posting at your facility:
Gloving:
Aseptic Technique:
- Tips and Educational Activities
- Strategies for Low-Resource Settings
- Educational Aids - Print out the following pages to use for staff education or for posting at your facility:
Surgical Scrub and Surgical Attire:
- Skills Practice Checklist: Gloving - If you are a supervisor, you can use this checklist to evaluate staff training in gloving. If you are a clinical staff member, you can ask a colleague to use this checklist as you practice putting on and removing gloves according to standard practices.
- Educational Aids - Print out the following pages to use as staff education or for posting at your facility (click on the "back" button on your browser to return to this page):
Needles and Other Sharps:
- Tips and Educational Activities
- Strategies for Low-Resource Settings
- Educational Aids - Use the following documents as educational aids or print them out for posting at your facility:
Instrument Processing
- Tips and Educational Activities
- Strategies for Low-Resource Settings
- Educational Aids - Print out and use some or all of the following materials during training exercises, during staff education exercises, or for posting at your facility (click the "back" button on your browser to return to this page):
- Skills Practice Checklist #1 - Wrapping instruments and other items
- Skills Practice Checklist #2 - Wrapping gloves
- General Guidelines for Routine Maintenance of Autoclaves
- How to Make a 0.5% Chlorine Solution
- Steps of Decontamination
- Steps of Cleaning
- Steps of Steam Sterilization
- Steps of Dry-Heat Sterilization
- Steps of Chemical Sterilization
- Steps of HLD by Boiling
- Steps of Chemical HLD
- Steps of HLD by Steaming
Housekeeping:
- Tips and Educational Activities
- Educational Aids - Print out the following materials for posting at your facility (click on the "back" button on your browser to return to this page):
- Cleaning Schedule: Client-Care Areas
- Cleaning Schedule: Non-Client-Care Areas
- Cleaning Schedule: Toilets, Latrines, and Sluice Rooms
Waste Disposal:
- Waste-Disposal Checklist - Use this checklist to help gauge the appropriateness of current waste-disposal practices at your facility.
- Staff and Community Education - Help promote safety by educating your staff and the local community about the risks of medical waste.
- Strategies for Low-Resource Settings:
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