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.
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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 from a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. In this session, learn about Hand Hygiene and Environmental Cleaning, Disinfecting and Sterilization. This course is designed for Environmental Services Personnel (EVS), which includes leadership, management, custodians, as well as clinical staff that do these practices in their daily work. This is part 1 of a series on infection control practices for EVS personnel.
In Session 3, What’s Wrong With this Picture, we will look at some common scenes in healthcare and identify where proper infection control measures are not being implemented. Then think about what additional infection control and patient safety measures can be taken to stop the spread of germs in healthcare settings.
This is a recording from a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. In this session we look at a common healthcare task, placing a peripheral IV in a child. Join us in selecting the right sequence of steps to prevent infection!
This is a recording from a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. In this session, we look at a common healthcare task, changing a patient's soiled bed linens. Join us in selecting the right sequence of steps to prevent infection!
This is a recording from a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. In this session, we review some common respiratory viruses, how they spread, and how they impact our healthcare system worldwide.
This is a recording from a live Project Firstline Rhode Island webinar. In this session, we review how to recognize risks for germs to spread in healthcare. Using our knowledge about where germs live and how they are spread from those places, we’ll think through a real-world scenario of germs spreading and making someone sick. We also discuss infection control actions that we can take to limit the spread of germs.
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 13: What is a respirator?
Video 13: What is a respirator?
Video 14: What is a N95 Respirator?
Video 14: What is a N95 Respirator?
Video 15: How do I seal test the N95?
Video 15: How do I seal test the N95?
Video 16: Cleaning and Disinfection -- What is the difference?
Video 16: Cleaning and Disinfection -- What is the difference?
Video 17: What is ventilation?
Video 17: What is ventilation?
Video 18: Why does ventilation matter?
Video 18: Why does ventilation matter?
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.
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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