Training & Resources
Project Firstline Rhode Island (PFL RI) provides infection prevention and control (IPC) training and resources for healthcare workers from a wide range of education and training backgrounds.
Training Courses
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Project Firstline Rhode Island is committed to creating resources that help frontline healthcare workers understand and confidently apply infection prevention and control (IPC) principles. PFL RI offers in-person and virtual trainings on a variety of IPC topics including transmission-based precautions, environmental cleaning and disinfection, and injection safety, among many others. The PFL RI team can develop and customize trainings to specific healthcare environments to meet your IPC needs.
Events
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Have questions about Project Firstline Rhode Island? Join us for our Open Office Hours where you can meet the team and get your program-related questions answered! This is your chance to ask questions and learn more about the program, available IPC education and training resources, and partnership opportunities! Drop in at the Open Office anytime between 12:00-12:45pm!
Recorded Live Content
Project Firstline’s innovative content is designed so that — regardless of a healthcare worker’s previous training or educational background — they can understand and confidently apply the infection prevention and control principles and protocols necessary to protect themselves, their patients, their families, and community.
This is a recording of a 2024 injection safety course from Project Firstline Rhode Island designed for healthcare staff who provide injections from both single and multi-dose vials. The course reviews important safety steps for preparing, storing and administering injections.
Esta es una grabación de un seminario web en vivo de Proyecto Firstline Rhode Island.
This is a recording of a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. This session reviews the impact of Multidrug-Resistant Organisms on Long-Term Care Facilities and important infection control actions expanding on the use and implementation of Enhanced Barrier Precautions to protect those most vulnerable with a high risk for acquiring infections. Learn how you can protect patients and yourselves! For more information, visit projectfirstlineRI.com.
Esta es una grabación de un seminario web en vivo de Proyecto Firstline Rhode Island. Esta sesión revisa algunos virus respiratorios comunes, cómo se propagan y cómo impactan nuestro sistema de salud en todo el mundo. ¡Aprenda cómo puede proteger a los pacientes y a usted mismo durante la temporada de virus respiratorios! Para obtener más información, visite projectfirstlineRI.com.
This is a recording of a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. This session reviews some common respiratory viruses, how they spread, and how they impact our healthcare system worldwide. Learn how you can protect patients and yourselves during respiratory virus season!
Watch the last webinar of CDC's 5-part series. CDC experts and partners discuss the impact of sepsis education for healthcare professionals during onboarding and as an annual refresher.
Project Firstline holds virtual town halls to provide important IPC updates to healthcare workers. These virtual discussions and Q&A sessions with CDC experts focus on changes to IPC guidance and recommendations around COVID-19 in healthcare settings.
Video Series: Inside Infection Control
Watch episodes of Project Firstline short video series on infection prevention and control
The CDC’s Dr. Abby Carlson explains the basic ideas behind infection control, how they work to prevent COVID-19, and how using infection control actions while you’re at work can protect your patients, your coworkers, your families, and your community.
Video 7: How does Covid-19 spread?
Video 7: How does Covid-19 spread?
Video 8: How do you use a multidose vial? Part 1
Video 8: How do you use a multidose vial? Part 1
Video 9: What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
Video 9: What is PPE (Personal Protective Equipment)?
Video 10: What eye protection is best for COVID-19?
Video 10: What eye protection is best for COVID-19?
Video 11: Why are gloves reccommended for COVID-19?
Video 11: Why are gloves reccommended for COVID-19?
Video 12: Why are gowns recommened for COVID-19?
Video 12: Why are gowns recommened for COVID-19?
Infection Control in Healthcare
Infection control is more than just policies and procedures, it’s an essential part of caring for and protecting patients. When you can understand and apply infection control actions consistently and confidently – every person, every action, every day – it saves lives.
Print Materials & Job Aids
Project Firstline offers shareable infection control resources for healthcare facilities and providers. Use the posters, infographics, screensavers, and more to help keep everyone at your facility feeling confident about their infection control decisions.
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Learn More About Infection Control
Project Firstline is committed to creating resources that help frontline healthcare workers understand and confidently apply the infection control principles and protocols necessary to protect themselves, their families, and their community.
Infection control resources
- Access Multimedia Resources
Access shareable images, web buttons, posters, and print materials.
- Lead an Infection Control Training
Use our facilitator toolkit to lead trainings on your team’s schedule, even if you’re not an infection control expert.
- Recursos en Español
Recursos para la capacitación en control de infecciones.
Training Toolkits
You don’t need to be an infection control expert to lead these trainings. The resources in this toolkit will help you along the way.
Use Project Firstline’s new training toolkits to help your team learn to recognize infection control risks throughout their workday, so they can take action to protect their patients, themselves, and their coworkers.
Social Media Content
Help others learn more about recognizing infection control risks and where germs live in healthcare using our downloadable social media content. Be sure to tag Project Firstline in your posts (@CDCFirstline on Twitter and @CDCProjectFirstline on Facebook).
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