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 we discuss important safety steps for preparing, storing and administering injections.
La grabación de este curso en vivo sobre la prevención y el control de una infección es un proyecto colaborativo de educación y capacitación de Project Firstline Rhode Island, CDC Project Firstline y la comunidad de Rhode Island. El especialista invitado en esta sesión es el Dr. Pablo Rodriguez, miembro del Consejo de Equidad ante el COVID‑19 del Estado de Rhode Island y profesor asociado emérito de la Escuela de Medicina Warren Alpert de la Universidad de Brown.
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 19: What do the new COVID-19 strains mean for infection control?
Video 19: What do the new COVID-19 strains mean for infection control?
Video 20: Why does cleaning and disinfection matter in healthcare?
Video 20: Why does cleaning and disinfection matter in healthcare?
Video 21: Hand Hygiene Part 2
Video 21: Hand Hygiene Part 2
Video 22: Why does contact time matter for disinfection?
Video 22: Why does contact time matter for disinfection?
Video 23: What is source control?
Video 23: What is source control?
Video 24: Can you spread COVID-19 when you don't feel sick?
Video 24: Can you spread COVID-19 when you don't feel sick?
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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