Healthcare Hand Hygiene and PPE Safety Course

Name: Healthcare Hand Hygiene and PPE Safety Training Course
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Apply hand hygiene moments, assess exposure risks, select PPE, and coach safer practice across healthcare settings.

Healthcare Hand Hygiene and PPE Safety Course

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Duration: 1 Week
Format: Classroom
Cities: Rome, Cape town, Amsterdam, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Milan and more
Next session: 2 – 6 November 2026, Rome
Average fee: 5,750 €

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Overview

Healthcare Hand Hygiene and PPE Safety Training Course is a one-week foundation course for healthcare professionals, infection prevention teams, nurses, clinical support staff, and facility supervisors who leave with a Unit Hand Hygiene and PPE Improvement Pack. Participants connect Standard Precautions, the WHO Five Moments, exposure-risk assessment, equipment selection, donning, doffing, disposal, observation, and feedback to patient-care tasks. Agile Leaders Training Center presents hand hygiene and PPE safety as linked daily practices.

Who Should Attend

Teams responsible for direct patient care and clean or aseptic tasks
Personnel responsible for infection prevention observation and feedback
Clinical support staff responsible for specimens, equipment, or patient environments
Supervisors responsible for safe work practices and supply readiness
Facility teams responsible for cleaning and contaminated-item handling

The course assumes participants work in or support healthcare environments and leaves out clinical diagnosis, respirator fit testing, and facility-specific authorization.

Departments and Industries

The course supports departments and industries that apply infection prevention practices during care and support activities.

Hospitals and ambulatory care services
Dental and diagnostic care settings
Long-term care and rehabilitation facilities
Clinical laboratories and specimen services
Environmental services and healthcare facilities teams

Learning Objectives

By the end of this course, participants will be able to:

Apply Standard Precautions to routine care scenarios
Use the WHO Five Moments and suitable hand hygiene methods
Analyze exposure risks and select appropriate PPE
Apply contamination-aware donning and doffing sequences
Evaluate practice through structured observation and feedback
Build a unit hand hygiene and PPE improvement plan

Course Agenda

Day 1: Standard Precautions and Risk

Standard Precautions Task Mapping Tool
Transmission Pathway and Barrier Map
Point-of-Care Exposure Risk Assessment
Patient Care Zone Boundary Guide
Practice Breach and Escalation Card

Day 2: Hand Hygiene Practice

WHO Five Moments Decision Map
Alcohol-Based Hand Rub Selection Guide
Soap-and-Water Indication Checklist
Hand Hygiene Technique Observation Form
Glove Use and Hand Hygiene Decision Path

Day 3: PPE Selection and Donning

PPE Selection by Exposure Risk Matrix
Glove, Gown, Mask, and Eye Protection Guide
Respirator versus Mask Decision Boundary
Pre-Use PPE Integrity and Supply Check
Contamination-Controlled Donning Sequence

Day 4: Doffing, Disposal, and Improvement

Self-Contamination-Aware Doffing Sequence
Disposable PPE Waste Routing Guide
Reusable Eye Protection Reprocessing Path
Exposure and Breach Reporting Workflow
Observation, Feedback, and Corrective Action Log

Day 5: Hand Hygiene and PPE Simulation

Suggested Exercise: Five Moments Scenario Sorting
Suggested Exercise: Exposure Risk and PPE Selection
Suggested Exercise: Donning and Doffing Skills Check
Suggested Exercise: Observation and Feedback Coaching
Capstone Exercise: Unit Hand Hygiene and PPE Improvement Pack

Practical Exercises

The course uses suggested activities with fictional inpatient, outpatient, laboratory, and environmental-services scenarios.

Suggested activity: classify care moments and select an appropriate hand hygiene method.
Suggested activity: assess exposure risk and document PPE choices for patient-care and cleaning tasks.
Suggested activity: practice donning and doffing while an observer records contamination risks.
Suggested activity: combine observations, supply checks, feedback, and corrective actions into a unit improvement pack.

FAQs

Who suits healthcare hand hygiene and PPE safety training, and what does it assume?

Healthcare hand hygiene and PPE safety training suits care teams, infection prevention personnel, clinical support staff, supervisors, and facility teams. It assumes workplace exposure to healthcare tasks and does not replace facility procedures.

How does hand hygiene and PPE safety training differ from advanced infection prevention training?

Hand hygiene and PPE safety training builds task-level practice in hygiene, risk assessment, selection, donning, and doffing, while advanced infection prevention training addresses surveillance, program governance, outbreak response, and organizational strategy.

Do medical gloves replace hand hygiene in healthcare?

Medical gloves do not replace hand hygiene. Personnel perform hand hygiene at the indicated moments, including after glove removal, and change gloves when care tasks or contamination risks require it.

How should healthcare workers choose personal protective equipment?

Healthcare workers choose PPE through a point-of-care assessment of anticipated contact, splash or spray, respiratory, skin, clothing, and mucous-membrane exposure risks, then follow facility procedures.

Conclusion

Participants leave with a Unit Hand Hygiene and PPE Improvement Pack containing decision maps, selection records, sequence checks, observation forms, and corrective actions. The pack aligns routine practice with assessed exposure risks. It also gives teams a shared method for feedback, supply follow-up, and safer task execution.

credits: 5 credit per day

Course Mode: full-time

Provider: Agile Leaders Training Center

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Location	Dates	Duration	Mode	Price
Rome	Week 45, 2026 2 – 6 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Cape town	Week 45, 2026 8 – 12 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Amsterdam	Week 47, 2026 16 – 20 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Dubai	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Abu Dhabi	Week 48, 2026 23 – 27 November 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Milan	Week 49, 2026 30 November – 4 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Munich	Week 50, 2026 7 – 11 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
London	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Tokyo	Week 51, 2026 14 – 18 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€10,000
Toronto	Week 51, 2026 20 – 24 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€12,000
Madrid	Week 52, 2026 21 – 25 December 2026	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Sharm El-Sheikh	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,100
Porto	Week 53, 2026 28 December 2026 – 1 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Zanzibar	Week 53, 2027 3 – 7 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,500
Athens	Week 02, 2027 11 – 15 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€6,700
Dubai	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,500
Jakarta	Week 03, 2027 18 – 22 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€5,700
Abu Dhabi	Week 04, 2027 25 – 29 January 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700
Zoom	Week 05, 2027 1 – 5 February 2027	1 Week	Online	€1,500
Manama	Week 05, 2027 7 – 11 February 2027	1 Week	Onsite	€4,700

Frequently asked questions

What does this course cover?

OverviewHealthcare Hand Hygiene and PPE Safety Training Course is a one-week foundation course for healthcare professionals, infection prevention teams, nurses, clinical support staff, and facility supervisors who leave with a Unit Hand Hygiene and PPE Improvement Pack. Participants connect Standard Precautions, the WHO Five Moments, exposure-risk assessm…

Are training dates available?

Yes. Available dates and destinations are listed in the course dates section on this page.

How can I register?

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Can I download the course brochure?

Yes. Use the brochure download link provided on this page.

Healthcare Hand Hygiene and PPE Safety Course