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Infection Prevention & Control Essentials

Practical IPC skills for safer healthcare environments

  • 8 modules
  • 100% online · Recorded lessons
  • English
  • innoryx
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100% online with recorded lessons. Start right after you enrol and learn anytime, anywhere, at your own pace.

What you'll learn

  • Explain the principles and purpose of infection prevention and control
  • Describe the chain of infection and identify opportunities to interrupt transmission
  • Apply standard precautions including hand hygiene and appropriate PPE selection
  • Differentiate contact, droplet, and airborne precautions and apply source-control principles
  • Apply safe injection, sharps, occupational exposure, cleaning, disinfection, and sterilization practices
  • Recognize key healthcare-associated infection and antimicrobial-resistance risks
  • Support outbreak recognition, surveillance, IPC monitoring, auditing, and continuous improvement

About this course

Build practical infection prevention and control skills for healthcare and laboratory settings. Learn how infections spread and how to reduce transmission through standard precautions, hand hygiene, PPE, transmission-based precautions, safe sharps practices, environmental controls, decontamination, outbreak response, surveillance, and IPC auditing.

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Who this is for

  • Healthcare professionals
  • Nurses and allied health professionals
  • Laboratory professionals
  • Clinical and diagnostic staff
  • Healthcare support staff
  • Public health professionals
  • Quality and safety professionals
  • Students entering healthcare or life sciences

Prerequisites

No formal prerequisites. Basic familiarity with healthcare, laboratory, clinical, public health, or patient-care environments is helpful but not required.

Assessment

Three 10-question knowledge-check quizzes, six interactive activities, one applied branching scenario, and a 30-question final assessment. Final pass mark: 70%. SkillCert attempts are unlimited.

Certificate

Earn the Innoryx SkillCert in Infection Prevention & Control Essentials after successfully passing the final assessment. The certificate demonstrates practical understanding of core IPC principles and their application in healthcare environments.

Certificates can be verified online

Career relevance

Relevant for professionals working in hospitals, clinics, laboratories, diagnostic centres, long-term care, public health, healthcare quality, patient safety, and other roles where infection risk must be recognised and controlled.

Frequently asked questions

Refund eligibility for course fees, books and third-party registrations is explained in our Refund & Cancellation Policy. Please review it before enrolling, including the Highfield and awarding-body terms where applicable.

How enrolment works

Start this course in three steps

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    Enrol online

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  2. 2

    Learn at your own pace

    Your course appears in your Innoryx Learn account, ready to start on any device.

  3. 3

    Get certified

    Complete the assessment to earn your certificate.

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