Course Description
Healthcare-associated infections kill patients, generate legal liability, and trigger regulatory investigations — and the majority are preventable. In hospitals and EHPADs, infection control is not a speciality function: it is a fundamental responsibility that runs across every care team, every shift, every surface, and every decision. When it fails, the consequences are irreversible.
This course was designed for infection control practitioners, nursing and care teams, facility managers, compliance officers, and clinical leaders who need a complete, operationally grounded understanding of how infections move through care environments and how to stop them. You will learn to design control architectures, manage high-impact pathogens, maintain environmental standards, address workforce behaviour and prescribing pressure, and navigate the legal and governance obligations that French and European regulators enforce.
Across six scenario-driven modules, you will move from transmission dynamics and risk architecture to pathogen-specific control, environmental management, workforce protection, legal accountability, and full incident command and recovery. By the end of this course, you will be equipped to make better decisions under pressure, lead credible infection prevention programmes, and demonstrate the governance standards that inspectors, courts, and patients now expect.
Why This Training Matters
In France, over 4,000 patients die each year from healthcare-associated infections — and most of those deaths were preventable.
Infection control failures are not only clinical events. They are legal failures, governance failures, and reputational failures. Facilities without documented prevention systems, trained staff, and functioning surveillance mechanisms face inspection sanctions, civil liability, and the indefensible position of harm that could have been stopped.
Where This Course Takes You
Understand how infections move and design control architectures that stop them
You will master transmission dynamics in care environments, apply universal precautions as a systematic control model, design isolation and cohorting protocols, and make defensible risk decisions under the uncertainty conditions that real clinical settings produce.
Manage high-impact pathogens, environmental risks, and workforce behaviour
From resistant organisms and respiratory threats to cleaning as risk management, PPE failure modes, and antibiotic prescribing pressure, you will be equipped to manage the full range of infection vectors that drive harm in hospitals and long-term care settings.
Navigate legal accountability, governance, and mandatory reporting obligations
You will understand the duty of care obligations, governance structures, mandatory reporting requirements, and inspection logic that apply to infection control in French healthcare facilities — and know exactly what defensible compliance looks like when regulators review your systems.
Lead incident command and build a resilient, learning system
You will develop surveillance systems that trigger action, manage incident declaration and coordinated response, lead recovery and post-incident review, and build the institutional resilience that transforms each event into a lasting improvement in your facility's infection control capability.
Certification
Course Curriculum
6 sections3 Hours total length
Module 1 — Dynamiques de transmission et architecture de maîtrise des risques
- Thème 1.1 — Circulation des infections dans les environnements de soins
- Thème 1.2 — Les précautions standard comme système de maîtrise
- Thème 1.3 — Isolement, cohortage et contrôle des déplacements
- Thème 1.4 — Prise de décision face au risque en situation d’incertitude
Module 2 — Agents pathogènes à fort impact et maîtrise fondée sur des scénarios
- Thème 2.1 — Micro-organismes résistants et propagation systémique
- Thème 2.2 — Épisodes d’origine digestive et cutanée
- Thème 2.3 — Menaces respiratoires et pression saisonnièreb
- Thème 2.4 — Risques environnementaux et opportunistes
Module 3 — Maîtrise de l’environnement, infrastructures et vérification
- Thème 3.1 — Nettoyage et désinfection comme outils de gestion du risque
- Thème 3.2 — Équipements, linge, déchets et contaminations croisées
- Thème 3.3 — Eau, air et expositions liées aux bâtiments
- Thème 3.4 — Intensification des risques environnementaux en situation d’incident
Module 4 — Comportements des professionnels, protection et pression sur la prescription
- Thème 4.1 — L’hygiène des mains comme système comportemental
- Thème 4.2 — Défaillances des équipements de protection et risques individuels
- Thème 4.3 — Exposition professionnelle et continuité des effectifs
- Thème 4.4 — L’usage des antibiotiques comme levier de maîtrise
Module 5 — Responsabilité juridique, gouvernance et contrôle institutionnel
- Thème 5.1 — Responsabilité juridique et devoir de protection
- Thème 5.2 — Des structures de gouvernance robustes face au contrôle
- Thème 5.3 — Déclarations obligatoires, surveillance et logique d’inspection
- Thème 5.4 — Pouvoirs d’urgence, obligations des personnels et mesures contraignantes
Module 6 — Surveillance, gestion des incidents et résilience des systèmes
- Thème 6.1 — Une surveillance qui déclenche l’action
- Thème 6.2 — Identifier et déclarer un incident
- Thème 6.3 — Réponse coordonnée et pilotage de crise
- Thème 6.4 — Rétablissement, apprentissage et préparation future