Infection Prevention and Control (IPAC) for Health Professionals

Sub-topics on infection prevention and control

• Clinical offices

  Clinical office practice
  Learn about reducing the transmission of infections, decreasing the risk of outbreaks, and protecting the public attending and staff working in a clinical office practice setting.

  Infection prevention and control checklist for clinical office practice - core elements
  A checklist to help support clinical office practices in examining, evaluating (for example, self-assessment) and comparing their current practices using provincial recommendations.

  Infection prevention and control checklist for clinical office practice - reprocessing
  A checklist to help support clinical office practices on reprocessing of medical equipment.

  Top five high risk practices
  See recommendations that address the top five practices that put patients and others at risk in a physician's office.

• Reprocessing and preventing infection and prevention control lapses

  Reprocessing
  Learn about the cleaning and disinfection or sterilization of reusable medical items in health care and personal service settings.

  Resources for preventing infection prevention and control lapses
  Learn about preventing and investigating lapses in community settings.

• Long-term care homes, retirement homes and public hospitals

  Outbreak definitions

  • Respiratory infection outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals
  • For COVID-19 outbreak definitions for high-risk settings, see the Ministry of Health's novel coronavirus appendix
  • Gastroenteritis outbreaks in institutions and public hospitals

  COVID-19 guidance documents and resources

  • COVID-19 guidance: long-term care homes, retirement homes and other congregate living settings for public health units
  • COVID-19 guidance document for long-term care homes in Ontario
  • COVID-19 guidance for retirement homes in Ontario
  • COVID-19 long-term care resources. Resources to help staff and administrators of long-term care homes and retirement homes manage and prevent COVID-19 outbreaks.

  Other resources

  • Infection Prevention and Control Self-Assessment Audit for Long-Term Care and Retirement Homes
  • Hamilton Niagara Haldimand-Norfolk Brant Infection Prevention and Control Hub. Learn about support for group living settings offered by the Hub.
    
• Routine practices, additional precautions and personal protective equipment (PPE)

  Routine practices and additional precautions
  Learn about applying routine practices and additional precautions in health care settings across the continuum of care.
  

  Additional precautions signage and lanyard cards
  Standardized infection prevention and control signage and lanyard cards for hospitals and long-term care homes.

  YouTube playlist - routine practices and additional precautions
  A series of educational and 'how to' videos, including for wearing personal protective equipment.
  

  Personal protective equipment auditing
  Learn about establishing, improving and maintaining a personal protective equipment auditing and feedback program.

• Hand hygiene and environmental cleaning
  • Hand hygiene
  • Environmental cleaning
  • Infection prevention and control for environmental cleaning in health care online learning modules
    Modules and resources for frontline environmental service workers and managers, as well as infection control professionals working in all health care settings.
• Education and learning opportunities
  • Infection prevention and control online learning
  • Events and professional development opportunities
  • Infection Prevention and Control Canada conferences and education
  • Certification Board of Infection Control and Epidemiology

Professionals

Public Health

• COVID-19
• Vaccines
• Infectious Diseases
• Infection Prevention and Control
• Sexual Health
• Mental Health
• Maternal, Child
• Oral Health
• Medical Advisories
• Opioid and Safer Supply Resources
• Order Resources
• Travel Vaccines
• Quitting Smoking
• Mobile Integrated Health
• Social Determinants of Health
• Physician Recruitment
• Primary Care Advisory Group