Hand Hygiene Training

About the course

This is the world's most concise, precise and thorough online hand hygiene training course.

Promoting internationally best known practice, it is specifically designed to motivate health and social care workers to improve their hand hygiene.

Who is this course for?

Whether for induction, vocational, refresher or management training, this is the online hand hygiene course for you.

What does the course cover?

• An introduction to hand hygiene
• Microorganisms
• Infection
• The immune system
• Healthcare Associated Infections (HCAI)
• Responding to infection outbreaks
• Beneficial bacteria
• Pathogenic bacteria
• Binary fission
• The Chain of Infection
• Transmission of infection
• Barriers to good hand hygiene
• Overcoming barriers
• When to wash your hands
• How to wash your hands
• Hand sanitiser
• Using hand sanitiser effectively
• When to use disposable gloves
• Putting on disposable gloves correctly
• Correct removal of disposable gloves
• Latex allergies
• Skin conditions as a result of hand hygiene

Download the syllabus (PDF)

How is the course assessed?

After each module you will be asked a set of multiple-choice questions. The answers are marked automatically so you instantly know your score.

Every trainee receives a FREE training certificate on completion of the course as evidence for your records.