HEAL D0004 - Contact Tracing - 25 hours
Course Description
The self-paced Contact Tracing program is designed for community health workers or individuals with little or no experience conducting contact tracing. Content is delivered through self-paced asynchronous eLearning via CANVAS.
After completing the prescribed training, you should be able to conduct contact tracing and have an understanding of:
- How COVID-19 is transmitted
- Strategies to reduce the spread of COVID-19
- Components of COVID-19 contact tracing
- Effective communication skills
- Requirements for protecting health information
- The COVID-19 contact tracing protocol
Course Outline
1. Strategies for the reduction of the spread of COVID-192. Components of COVID-19 Contact Tracing
3. Effective Communication
4. Multicultural Communication
5. The COVID-19 Contact Tracing Protocol
6. Protecting Health Information
Learner Outcomes
Upon completion of this workshop participants will be familiar with how to:- Describe what COVID-19 is
- Understand the basics of epidemiology and its importance to contact tracing
- Describe how to prevent COVID-19 transmission
- List symptoms of COVID-19
- Define social distancing
- Describe the incubation and infectious period
- Define contact tracing
- Describe the basic steps of contact tracing
- Test
- Investigate
- Trace
- Quarantine or isolate
- Follow-up
- Describe skills and qualities necessary for contact tracers
- Motivational interviewing skills
- Risk communication skills
- Cultural sensitivity
- Adaptations for contacts with hearing impairments
- Describe how to build rapport
- List at least six effective communication skills
- Describe assertive, passive, and aggressive behavior
- Describe in detail the actions and requirements associated with each step of the contact tracing process
- Test
- Investigate
- Trace
- Quarantine or isolate
- Follow-up
- Utilize a checklist to ensure they have completed all tasks for tracing with a contact
- Explain why it is important to protect health information
- Understand the potential consequences if data are not protected
- Describe the ethics of data collection during an outbreak
Notes
Materials Required:
Practice: Medical Office Online Access
1st Edition
By Muzzy Lane ISBN10: 1259293696
ISBN13: 9781259293696
Copyright: 2016