State Encourages CDC Infection Control Training for Frontline Workers
By Joey Berlin

With infection control now occupying center stage in health care, state health officials are promoting the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Project Firstline training videos on infection prevention, hoping the trainings reach all of Texas’ frontline health care workers.

The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) said in a letter to health care facilities and public health officials that it’s aiming for at least 5,000 Texas frontline workers to complete at least one of the CDC Firstline training sessions by May 2022. The CDC training sessions are “quick, easy, and free,” DSHS said, adding most of the infection prevention videos are only about three minutes long. Many of the videos can be incorporated into annual training and linked on health care system training sites, DSHS said.

The state agency also is offering an incentive for “health care facilities and public health jurisdictions” with the highest participation rates: the opportunity to send a representative to one of two DSHS-sponsored infection prevention training sessions. The first, an introduction to the essentials of infection prevention, will be held Feb. 10-11, 2022. The second, a Certification in Infection Prevention and Control preparatory course targeted at those with infection prevention experience, will take place March 10-11, 2022.

More information, including a log template to track staff’s participation in Project Firstline training, is available on the DSHS website.

Last Updated On

November 24, 2021

Originally Published On

November 24, 2021

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