Module 8. Standard Precaution: Health Care Waste Management (HCWM)

Topic outline

• 

  1. Overview

  
  

  • Session Content Page
  • Key Competencies Summary Page
• 

  2. Pre-Training Quizzes

  
  

  • Pre-Training Quizzes Page
  • Quizzes for Printing (pdf file)
• 

  3. Key Competencies

  
  

  • Key Competency 1: Describe health care waste (HCW), types and source Page
  • Key Competency 2: Understand the risks and importance of HCWM Page
  • Key Competency 3: Know the processes and details in HCWM from generation to safe treatment and disposal Page
  • Key Competency 4: Understand administrative measures for HCW management Page
  • Key Competency 5: Apply key actions of HCW management in the context of COVID Page
• 

  4. Skills & Practice

  
  

  • Skills and Practice Activities Page
• 

  5. Reading Materials

  
  

  • WHO. Safe management of wastes from health-care activities File
  • WHO. Enviromental_and_equipment_hygiene File
  • How COVID-19 Pandemic is Changing Waste Management File
  • Water, sanitation, hygiene, and waste management for SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 File
  • WHO UNDP MODULE 1: Definition, Sources and Characteristics of Healthcare Waste File
  • WHO UNDP MODULE 2: Health and Environmental Impacts of Healthcare Waste File
  • WHO UNDP MODULE 4: National Healthcare Waste Management Planning File
• 

  6. Post-Training Quizzes

  
  

  • Post-Training Quizzes Page
• 

  7. Students Score Recording

  
  

  • Students Score Recording Feedback