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Free Infection Prevention Text Messages
Sign up to receive free text updates (PDF) from the Washington Project Firstline team.
Get timely infection prevention updates over your phone, wherever you are, including access to:
- Short infection control training videos from the CDC
- Infection prevention facts to raise awareness and keep infection control in mind
- Engage your team in infection prevention in just minutes per week!
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Washington Infection Control Online Training
We offer a six-part interactive training series to provide frontline healthcare workers with infection prevention and control education. This training is offered in both English and Spanish.
Participants are able to earn continuing education and continuing nursing education (CE/CNE) credits. The series is based on CDC Project Firstline content and focuses on the following six modules:
- Infection Control
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Job aids for Infection Control
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) - How Germs Can Spread on Surfaces
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Job aids for How Germs Can Spread on Surfaces
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) - How Germs Can Spread via Respiratory Droplets
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Job aids for How Germs Can Spread via Respiratory Droplets
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) - Proper Hand Hygiene
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Job aids for Proper Hand Hygiene
Pocket Aid
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF)
Poster
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) - Proper Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
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Job aids for Proper Use of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)
PPE Don/Doff with Facemask
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF)PPE Don/Doff without Facemask
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) - Cleaning and Disinfection
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Job aids for Contact Time
Contact Time Chart
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF)Job aids for Cleaning and Disinfection
Cleaning vs. Disinfection
English (PDF) | Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Tiếng Việt (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) - Enhanced Barrier Precautions
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The True Cost of an MDRO Outbreak (PDF)
Job aids for Enhanced Barrier Precautions
Enhanced Barrier Precautions Pocket Guide (PDF)
Amharic (PDF) | Español (PDF) | Korean (PDF) | Русский (PDF) | Tagalog (PDF) | Ukrainian (PDF) | Vietnamese (PDF)
Podcast
The Project Firstline Podcast, hosted by the Washington State Department of Health, is for frontline healthcare workers to:
- grow their awareness of infection prevention and public health practices.
- identify the impact of infection prevention on our lives and the lives of our community.
- Episodes
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- Healthcare Associated Infections
- Personal Protective Equipment
- Hand Hygiene
- Multidrug Resistant Organisms (MDROs)
- Assisted Living and Skilled Nursing Facilities
- Hospital Settings
- Candida auris (C. auris)
- Respiratory Protection
- Vaccine Preventable Diseases (VPDs)
- Dental Settings
- Dialysis Settings
- Environmental Health in Healthcare Settings
- Surveillance in Public Health and Healthcare
- Oncology Settings
- Standard and Transmission-Based Precautions
- Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Mini-Series