Competency information
Details
Investigate the source/causes of the following healthcare infections:
- hepatitis B virus
- hepatitis C virus
- HIV
- influenza virus
- VZV
- herpes viruses
- MRSA, C. difficile, GRE, resistant Gram negatives.
Considerations
- The risk factors if healthcare workers are infected with any of the listed healthcare infections.
- Local and national guidelines, legislation and epidemiology.
- The role of the occupational health service and the clinical microbiology laboratory.
- The reservoirs, sources, routes of transmission and portals of entry of common HAIs.
- The epidemiology, clinical presentation and control of common and important multi-resistant organisms, including: MRSA, C. difficile, GRE, resistant Gram negatives.
Relevant learning outcomes
| # | Outcome |
|---|---|
| # 3 | Outcome Perform the clinical and laboratory investigations that are required for the management of healthcare-acquired infection. |