This Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, and HIV Awareness and Prevention Training educates healthcare providers on how these diseases spread, their symptoms, and effective prevention methods. Providers will learn infection control measures tailored to each disease and standard techniques to reduce transmission risks in healthcare settings. Understanding these practices helps them protect themselves, their patients, and colleagues, ensuring a safer healthcare environment.
What You Will Learn:
- Common symptoms of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, and HIV
- Standard prevention techniques to reduce the risk of Tuberculosis, Hepatitis, and HIV transmission in healthcare settings
- Infection control measures specific to each disease
Details:
Course length: 1 hour & 30 minutes; CME: 1.5
Languages: American English
Key features: Audio narration, learning activity, and post-assessment.
American Medical Compliance is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education to physicians. Our Continuing Medical Education (CME) program is committed to enhancing the knowledge, skills, and professional performance of healthcare providers to improve patient care outcomes. Through high-quality educational activities, we aim to address the identified educational gaps and to support the continuous professional development of our medical community. American Medical Compliance designates this activity for a maximum of 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. Physicians should only claim this credit for their complete participation in this activity.
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Introduction to Infectious Diseases and Legal Requirements
Using this information, write one paragraph to explain what healthcare providers will learn from this course and why it is important for healthcare providers to know. Use active voice. Several OSHA standards and directives are directly applicable to protecting workers against transmission of infectious agents. These include:
OSHA’s Bloodborne Pathogens standard which provides protection of workers from exposures to blood and body fluids that may contain bloodborne infectious agents. OSHA’s Personal Protective Equipment standard and Respiratory Protection standard which provide protection for workers when exposed to contact, droplet and airborne transmissible infectious agents; and OSHA’s TB compliance directive which protects workers against exposure to TB through enforcement of existing applicable OSHA standards and the General Duty Clause of the OSH Act.
Employees in health care and other high-risk environments face long-standing infectious disease hazards such as TB, influenza and MRSA, as well as new and emerging infectious disease threats. OSHA is considering the need for a standard to ensure that employers establish a comprehensive infection control program and control measures to protect employees from exposures to infectious agents that can cause significant disease.
This course teaches healthcare providers how OSHA standards protect workers from infectious agents like TB, influenza, and MRSA. Providers will learn about the Bloodborne Pathogens Standard, PPE requirements, Respiratory Protection Standard, and TB compliance directive. The course covers infection control programs and protective measures to reduce exposure risks. Understanding these regulations helps providers stay compliant, protect themselves, and prevent disease transmission in high-risk healthcare settings.
Understanding Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis presents a diagnostic challenge to clinicians. The approach to diagnosis depends on whether the patient is being evaluated for latent, active pulmonary, or extrapulmonary TB disease.
Signs and symptoms, if present, are nonspecific. The approach to diagnosis depends on prevalence within a population and the resources available within a specific geographic region.
Ideally, a combination of factors are used to establish a diagnosis.
The sensitivity and specificity of diagnostic tests can vary significantly depending on factors that include:
- Pretest probability
- Immunological status and age of the patient
- Timing of the test
- Adherence to test procedures
- Adequacy of specimen collection, and
- The ability to interpret test results in the context of the patient’s risk factors and immune function
Anyone can get TB. But people at higher risk for TB fall into two categories:
- People at higher risk of being exposed to TB germs, and
- People at higher risk of developing active TB disease once infected with TB germs.
This course helps healthcare providers recognize diagnostic challenges and risk factors. Providers will learn to differentiate between latent, active, and extrapulmonary TB, assess nonspecific symptoms, and consider population prevalence and resources in diagnosis. The course covers factors affecting test accuracy, including immunity, specimen quality, and test adherence. Understanding these elements helps providers identify high-risk individuals, interpret tests, and prevent TB spread.
Understanding Hepatitis B and C
Each year, tens of thousands of people acquire a viral hepatitis infection in the United States. It is a serious public health threat that kills thousands of Americans annually and is a leading cause of liver cancer.
- Hepatitis A and hepatitis B are vaccine-preventable, hepatitis B can be treated, and hepatitis C can be cured.
- Many people with a viral hepatitis infection do not have symptoms and are unaware of their infection.
- Chronic hepatitis B and chronic hepatitis C can cause serious health problems, including liver damage, cirrhosis, liver cancer, and even death.
Understanding HIV
Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is the virus that can lead to acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). HIV destroys blood cells that are crucial to helping the body fight disease. This results in a weakened immune system, making persons with HIV or AIDS at risk for many different types of infections. Transmission of HIV to patients while in healthcare settings is rare. However, proper sterilization and disinfection procedures are required to prevent infection risks. Most exposures do not result in infection.
Although HIV transmission is possible in healthcare settings, it is extremely rare. Medical experts emphasize that the careful practice of infection control procedures, including universal precautions (i.e., using protective practices and personal protective equipment to prevent transmission of HIV and other bloodborne infections), protects patients as well as healthcare providers from possible HIV transmission in medical and dental settings.
Healthcare personnel are at risk for occupational exposure to bloodborne pathogens including HIV. Important factors that influence the overall risk for occupational exposures to bloodborne pathogens include:
- The number of infected individuals in the patient population and
- The type and number of blood contacts
Transmission of HIV to patients while in healthcare settings is rare. However, proper sterilization and disinfection procedures are required. CDC has documented rare cases of patients contracting HIV in healthcare settings from infected donor tissue.
This course helps healthcare providers to reduce transmission risks and follow infection control. Learn how HIV weakens the immune system and why sterilization, disinfection, and universal precautions are essential. While HIV transmission in healthcare is rare, providers face exposure risks from patient contact. This training helps providers protect themselves, follow safety protocols, and prevent bloodborne infections.
