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Overview
The Chicago Department of Public Health partners with the Center for Disease Control’s Project Firstline to make infection control trainings and educational resources available to all healthcare workers, regardless of background. These resources, developed with and for healthcare workers, provide you with the tools you need to guide your teams to prevent infection.
Respectful of healthcare workers' time, Project Firstline’s materials are designed to accommodate you and your team’s busy schedule. These resources range from in-person or hybrid trainings by CDPH personnel to interactive online scenarios, graphics, and toolkits you can use to host your own infection control trainings.
If you have any questions, please contact projectfirstline@chicago.org
Respectful of healthcare workers' time, Project Firstline’s materials are designed to accommodate you and your team’s busy schedule. These resources range from in-person or hybrid trainings by CDPH personnel to interactive online scenarios, graphics, and toolkits you can use to host your own infection control trainings.
If you have any questions, please contact projectfirstline@chicago.org
List of Available In-Person Trainings
- The Concept of Infection Control
- The Basic Science of Viruses
- How Respiratory Droplets Spread COVID-19
- How Viruses Spread from Surfaces to People
- How COVID-19 Spreads - A Review
- Multi-Dose Vials
- PPE Part 1 - Eye Protection
- PPE Part 2 - Gloves & Gowns
- Hand Hygiene
- Virus Strains
- PPE Part 3- Respirators
- Environmental Cleaning & Disinfection
- Source Control
- Asymptomatic Spread of COVID-19
- Ventilation
- Prevention of CAUTIs
- Bacterial Infections
Respiratory Season
- PFL Respiratory Packet
- Prepare Your Clinics and Patients for Fall and Winter Respiratory Virus Season With CDC Director and AMA
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train.
- What’s a Virus?
- How Do Viruses Make You Sick?
- How Do Viruses Spread From Surfaces to People?
- What’s a Respiratory Droplet? Why Does it Matter?
- What Is Source Control?
- What Do New COVID Strains Mean for Infection Control?
- How Can COVID-19 Spread When You Don’t Feel Sick?
- How Does COVID-19 Spread? A Review
- Why is Eye Protection Recommended for COVID-19?
- SARS-CoV-2? COVID-19? What’s the Difference?
- Basic Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Safe Cough Practices
- Preventing RSV in Infants and Young Children in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
- Prepare your Clinics and Pediatric Patients for Fall and Winter Respiratory Virus Season
- Getting Prepared for the Fall/Winter Viral Respiratory Season
- Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette
- Preventing Viral Respiratory Infection
- Preventing Bacterial Respiratory Infection
Earn CEUs for Free
Respiratory Viruses Web-based Trainings
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train
CDC Project Firstline: What’s a Virus?
CDC Project Firstline: How Do Viruses Make You Sick?
CDC Project Firstline: How Do Viruses Spread From Surfaces to People?
CDC Project Firstline: What’s a Respiratory Droplet? Why Does it Matter?
CDC Project Firstline: What Is Source Control?
Basic Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Safe Cough Practices
CDC Project Firstline: What Do New COVID Strains Mean for Infection Control?
CDC Project Firstline: How Can COVID-19 Spread When You Don’t Feel Sick?
CDC Project Firstline: How Does COVID-19 Spread? A Review
CDC Project Firstline: Why is Eye Protection Recommended for COVID-19?
CDC Project Firstline: SARS-CoV-2? COVID-19? What’s the Difference?
Ventilation Web-based Training
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train
CDC Project Firstline: Why Does Ventilation Matter?
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train
CDC Project Firstline: What’s a Virus?
CDC Project Firstline: How Do Viruses Make You Sick?
CDC Project Firstline: How Do Viruses Spread From Surfaces to People?
CDC Project Firstline: What’s a Respiratory Droplet? Why Does it Matter?
CDC Project Firstline: What Is Source Control?
Basic Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Safe Cough Practices
CDC Project Firstline: What Do New COVID Strains Mean for Infection Control?
CDC Project Firstline: How Can COVID-19 Spread When You Don’t Feel Sick?
CDC Project Firstline: How Does COVID-19 Spread? A Review
CDC Project Firstline: Why is Eye Protection Recommended for COVID-19?
CDC Project Firstline: SARS-CoV-2? COVID-19? What’s the Difference?
Ventilation Web-based Training
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train
CDC Project Firstline: Why Does Ventilation Matter?
Non-PFL CEUs for Free
Respiratory Viruses Webcasts and Web-based Trainings
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train
Preventing RSV in Infants and Young Children in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Prepare your Clinics and Pediatric Patients for Fall and Winter Respiratory Virus Season
Getting Prepared for the Fall/Winter Viral Respiratory Season
Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette
Preventing Viral Respiratory Infection
Preventing Bacterial Respiratory Infection
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH but from CDC Train
Preventing RSV in Infants and Young Children in American Indian and Alaska Native Communities
Prepare your Clinics and Pediatric Patients for Fall and Winter Respiratory Virus Season
Getting Prepared for the Fall/Winter Viral Respiratory Season
Respiratory Hygiene and Cough Etiquette
Preventing Viral Respiratory Infection
Preventing Bacterial Respiratory Infection
EVS
EVS Matrices, Guides, & Infographics
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Interactive Scenarios/Recursos interactivos
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Infographics/Infografías
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Micro-Learns/Microaprendizajes
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Training toolkits / Kits de herramientas para capacitaciones
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Facilitator and participant resources |
Recursos para facilitadores y participantes |
Recognizing Risk Using ReservoirsSession 1: What does it Mean to Recognize a Risk? |
Reconociendo el riesgo de los reservoriosSesión 1: ¿Qué significa identificar un riesgo? |
Session 2: How Germs Make People Sick |
Sesión 2: Cómo los microbios enferman a las personas |
Session 3: Recognizing Risk Using Reservoirs: A Review |
Sesión 3: Identificación de los riesgos por medio de los reservorios: una revisión |
Introduction to Reservoirs: Where Germs LiveSession 1: Body Reservoirs |
Introducción a los embalses: dónde viven los gérmenesSesión 1: Reservorios en el cuerpo |
Session 2: Healthcare Environment Reservoirs |
Sesión 2: Entorno de atención médica |
Session 3: Body and Healthcare Environment Reservoirs: Synthesis |
Sesión 3: Reservorios en el cuerpo y en los entornos de atención médica Síntesis |
Factsheets/Hojas informativas
Videos
- How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial?
- How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial? Part 2
- Cleaning? Disinfection? What's the Difference?
- Why Does Contact Time Matter for Disinfection?
- Why Do Cleaning and Disinfection Matter in Healthcare?
- What is an N95 Respirator?
- What is Personal Protective Equipment (PPE)?
- Do We Really Have to Talk About Hand Hygiene? Again? Yes!
Ventilation Resources/Recursos de Ventilación
Ventilation Web-based Training
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH by from CDC Train.
CDC Project Firstline: Why Does Ventilation Matter?
DISCLAIMER: CEUs are not distributed by CDPH by from CDC Train.
CDC Project Firstline: Why Does Ventilation Matter?
Dialysis Settings
Courses
Earn CEUs for Free
Earn CEUs for Free
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Videos
EVS
Infection Control Assessment Tool (English & Spanish)
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Catheter Care
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Catheter Exit Site Care
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AV Fistula and Graft Cannulation and Decannulation
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Dialysis Station Disinfection
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Injection Safety
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Hand Hygiene
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Outpatient Settings
- IPC in Pediatric Ambulatory Settings
- AAP Project Firstline
- Infection Prevention and Control Quality Improvement Change Package
- What’s Wrong with this Picture? Outpatient Exam Room
- Basic Infection Prevention in the Ambulatory Care Setting: Safe Cough Practices
- Prepare your Clinics and Pediatric Patients for Fall and Winter Respiratory Virus Season
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Ambulatory Care Centers, Physician Offices and Clinics
Additional Educational Resources
- Access Infection Control Educational Materials: Project Firstline has engaging, interactive resources in both English and Spanish to increase and test your infection control knowledge, including interactive scenarios, infographics, micro-learns, training toolkits, and factsheets
- Review the Illinois Health & Hospital Association & the Chicago Department of Public Health’s Project Firstline: Infection Prevention Essentials Webinar 2022 Series.
Newsletters
2024 Newsletters
January 2024 Newsletter: Respiratory Viruses
February 2024 Newsletter: New Year, New PFL Training Topics
March 2024 Newsletter: PFL One-Page Resource, 5 questions to ask when using a disinfectant, Events
April 2024 Newsletter: Measles, World Immz Week, Events
May 2024 Newsletter: NACCHO IPC Summit 2024
June 2024 Newsletter: National Safety
July 2024 Newsletter: Safe Summer
August 2024 Newsletter: Hand Hygiene
September 2024 Newsletter: Environmental Services
October 2024 Newsletter: Infection Control
November 2024 Newsletter: Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Resistance
2023 Newsletters
February 28, 2023 Newsletter: CDPH's Infection Prevention Essentials Newsletter Sign Up
September 2023 Newsletter: Environmental Services
October 2023 Newsletter: Infection Control
November 2023 Newsletter: Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Resistance
December 2023 Newsletter: Respiratory Virus Season
2022 IHA & CDPH's Project Firstline:Infection Prevention Essentials Newsletter Series
June 27, 2022 Newsletter: Introduction Project Firstline and The Concept of Infection Control
June 29, 2022 Newsletter: The Basic Science of Viruses
July 13, 2022 Newsletter: Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection
July 20, 2022 Newsletter: PPE Part 1 – Eye Protection
July 27, 2022 Newsletter: PPE Part 2 – Gloves and Gowns
August 3, 2022 Newsletter: PPE Part 3 – Respirators
August 10, 2022 Newsletter: Source Control
August 17, 2022 Newsletter: Ventilation
August 24, 2022 Newsletter: Hand Hygiene
August 31, 2022 Newsletter: Outbreak Management
September 7, 2022 Newsletter: Multi-Dose Vials
January 2024 Newsletter: Respiratory Viruses
February 2024 Newsletter: New Year, New PFL Training Topics
March 2024 Newsletter: PFL One-Page Resource, 5 questions to ask when using a disinfectant, Events
April 2024 Newsletter: Measles, World Immz Week, Events
May 2024 Newsletter: NACCHO IPC Summit 2024
June 2024 Newsletter: National Safety
July 2024 Newsletter: Safe Summer
August 2024 Newsletter: Hand Hygiene
September 2024 Newsletter: Environmental Services
October 2024 Newsletter: Infection Control
November 2024 Newsletter: Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Resistance
2023 Newsletters
February 28, 2023 Newsletter: CDPH's Infection Prevention Essentials Newsletter Sign Up
September 2023 Newsletter: Environmental Services
October 2023 Newsletter: Infection Control
November 2023 Newsletter: Antimicrobial/Antibiotic Resistance
December 2023 Newsletter: Respiratory Virus Season
2022 IHA & CDPH's Project Firstline:Infection Prevention Essentials Newsletter Series
June 27, 2022 Newsletter: Introduction Project Firstline and The Concept of Infection Control
June 29, 2022 Newsletter: The Basic Science of Viruses
July 13, 2022 Newsletter: Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection
July 20, 2022 Newsletter: PPE Part 1 – Eye Protection
July 27, 2022 Newsletter: PPE Part 2 – Gloves and Gowns
August 3, 2022 Newsletter: PPE Part 3 – Respirators
August 10, 2022 Newsletter: Source Control
August 17, 2022 Newsletter: Ventilation
August 24, 2022 Newsletter: Hand Hygiene
August 31, 2022 Newsletter: Outbreak Management
September 7, 2022 Newsletter: Multi-Dose Vials
Project Firstline
For more information on the CDC’s National Training Collaborative for Healthcare Infection Prevention & Control, please visit https://www.cdc.gov/infectioncontrol/projectfirstline/index.html
The Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) is proud to partner with the CDC’s Project Firstline to identify priority infection prevention and control (IPC) training needs among frontline healthcare personnel in a variety of care settings across the City of Chicago.
If you have any questions, please contact projectfirstline@cityofchicago.org.
If you have any questions, please contact projectfirstline@cityofchicago.org.
Featured Resources
- American Hospital Association (AHA)‘s webinar series on ventilation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCm-JsmiBqw&feature=youtu.be
- American Nurses Association (ANA)’s Project Firstline training courses: https://www.nursingworld.org/practice-policy/project-firstline/training-courses/
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)’s podcast on Infection Control: https://www.aap.org/en/pages/podcast/the-science-behind-covid-19-antibiotic-stewardship/