Characteristics of personal protective equipment training programs in Australia and New Zealand hospitals: A survey.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Using personal protective equipment (PPE) is one of several fundamental measures to prevent the transmission of infection and infectious diseases and is particularly pertinent in the current COVID-19 pandemic. Appropriate use of PPE by healthcare workers is, however, often suboptimal. Training and monitoring of PPE competency are essential components of an infection prevention and control program but there is a paucity of research and data on the content of such training programs across Australasia. This paper reports the results of a survey that characterised the nature of PPE training in Australian and New Zealand hospitals.

Methods

A population-based online survey was distributed to members of three major Australasian colleges representing infection prevention

SUBMITTER: Barratt R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7318937 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature