Infectious Disease Nursing: Assessment, Precautions, and Care Coordination

Course Purpose

This course is designed for nurses seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills in preventing and managing infectious diseases across various healthcare settings.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 4 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

Infectious disease nursing is often imagined as the care of patients who arrive with an infection. A large part of it is the opposite: preventing the infections that patients acquire from the process of being cared for. Infectious diseases present an ongoing challenge in nursing practice, demanding vigilant assessment and precise care coordination. This course provides an overview of how to prevent and manage infectious diseases across various healthcare settings.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Define healthcare-associated infection and name the routes by which the retrieved source says the responsible germs spread.
2. State the components of Standard Precautions and explain why they apply to all patient care rather than to known infections only.
3. Apply the hand hygiene product choice, technique and timing the retrieved guidance specifies, including when sanitizer is not sufficient.
4. List the SIRS criteria and explain how sepsis, septic shock and multiple organ dysfunction syndrome are defined in relation to them.
5. Recognise the signs and symptoms of sepsis named by CDC and explain why most cases begin before hospital arrival.
6. Describe the time-sensitive elements of septic shock management and the nursing actions that support them.
7. Explain how Clostridioides difficile spreads, why gloves and gowns are required, and how cleaning practice differs for spores.
8. Explain mechanistically how antimicrobial resistance develops and spreads between organisms.
9. Recognise MRSA presentations in healthcare settings and state how colonisation differs from infection.
10. Describe tuberculosis transmission, the four factors that determine probability of transmission, and the reporting expectation.
11. Distinguish latent tuberculosis infection from tuberculosis disease and identify who is at higher risk of exposure.
12. Describe the nursing contribution to antibiotic stewardship and patient teaching about antibiotic use and side effects.

Who this course is for:

Healthcare professionals who want continuing education on Infectious Disease Nursing: Assessment, Precautions, and Care Coordination.

Course outline

12 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Course overview and learning objectives

2. 2

   Introduction

3. 3

   What Healthcare-Associated Infection Actually Is, and How It Travels

4. 4

   Standard Precautions: The Practices That Apply Before Anyone Knows the Diagnosis

5. 5

   Hand Hygiene as a Specified Technique, Not a Gesture

6. 6

   When Infection Becomes Systemic: SIRS, Sepsis and the Vocabulary Problem

7. 7

   The Time-Sensitive Part: What Sepsis Management Involves and Where Nursing Sits In It

8. 8

   Clostridioides difficile: Where the Usual Rules Stop Working

9. 9

   Antimicrobial Resistance and MRSA: Mechanism, Colonisation and What a Nurse Can Change

10. 10

    Tuberculosis, Reporting, and Turning Individual Vigilance into a Facility Result

11. 11

    Nursing Considerations

12. 12

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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Questions about this course

How many contact hours is Infectious Disease Nursing: Assessment, Precautions, and Care Coordination?

4 contact hours, credited at completion.

How much does it cost?

$20.00 on its own, or included with All-Access ($29.99 a year, renewing yearly until you cancel).

Can I listen instead of reading?

Yes — every section can be read or heard, on your phone or computer.

When do I get my certificate?

As soon as you finish the course requirements and the evaluation. It stays in your account.

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