Evidence Based Global Infection Prevention (5 cr)

Learning outcomes

Student is able to:
- analyze and implement concepts, principles, and policies of global infection prevention and control
- to apply evidence-based infection prevention and control models in composing, and evaluating IPC practices in diverse settings
- to develop evidence based interprofessional and cross-cultural infection prevention in global contexts

Materials

Will be published as updated in the Canvas work space in January 2024.

Teaching methods

Methods:
e-tivity supported lectures and workshops for co-creation, implementation and evaluation of infection prevention campaign to be published in the www.globalwindow.fi

e-tivities:

1 e-tivity: What do I need to know to be able to implement evidence and effective methods in constructing high quality global online health campaign for infection prevention?
To be submitted by 15th January 2024 23:59 EET.

2 e-tivity: Evaluation criteria for online campaign supporting the guideline adherence.
To be submitted by 12th Feb 2024 23:59 EET.

3 e-tivity: Pre-review of the online health campaign in infection prevention.
(A digital IPC campaign). To be submitted by 4th March 2024 23:59 EET.

4 e-tivity: An online health campaign in infection prevention ready for publishing in the www.globalwindow.fi.
Deadline for the final assignment (A digital IPC campaign and a report of max 2000 words) for evaluation by 27th May 2024 23:59 EET.

Employer connections

Cooperation is under construction with students and experts in Abuja University Nigeria

Exam schedules

At Tikkurila campus: 20th Jan -24 9-16.30 Constructing evidence and methodological base for global online health campaign.
At Tikkurila campus: 17th Feb 9-12. Constructing evaluation criteria for upcoming global online health campaign.
At Tikkurila campus: 16th March 2024 9-16.30 Workshop for preview and evaluation of the upcoming Infection Prevention Campaigns

Deadline for the final assignment for evaluation by 27th May 2024.

International connections

Cooperation is under construction with students and experts in Abuja University Nigeria.

Completion alternatives

None

Please make sure that you follow the deadlines carefully, as the work done for e-tivities will be discussed during the face-to-face sessions. Presence at campus teaching is compulsory. In case the student is not able to be present the replacing assignments have to be agreed before contact teaching sessions as written assignment or online participation reserved only for good reasons.

Student workload

Contact learning at campus 20 hrs.
Individual and pair work in international groups 115 h.

Content scheduling

Content:
• concepts and models in global infection prevention
• infection prevention in national, international and global settings
• global and local immunization and antimicrobial stewardship programs
• standardized infection prevention protocols in health care
• co-creation of an online health campaign in infection prevention -project as a pair work

Evaluation scale

H-5