Train the Trainer!
What is Train the Trainer?
The Train the Trainer provides a successful approach to equip employees and subject matter experts with new knowledge on how to teach others and how to foster an environment where everybody feels welcome to improve their skills and knowledge base. Thus, our train the trainer program provides instruction, coaching, and feedback to prepare those who deliver training and education in long-term care facilities, including full-time trainers, supervisors, and managers, the knowledge needed to facilitate quality employee development. Training the trainer provides individuals with not only basic knowledge skills but practical learning, confidence and, critical thinking skills to facilitate learning and ensure retention.
What to expect?
We have created a unit agenda to show the essential topics that one of our consultants will be presenting and engaging the trainers in. The modules will provide the IPAC Lead with the principles of infection prevention and control, outbreak investigation and management, and surveillance techniques as well as other topics pertinent to long-term care infection control.
The case topics include (but are not limited to): Isolation and barrier precautions, surveillance of nosocomial infections, infection control precautions, outbreak investigation, antibiotic resistance, common communicable diseases (e.g. tuberculosis, influenza), as well as the unique perspectives of long-term care.
- Unit 1: Introduction to the Course and Understanding of infection Control Structures
- Unit 2: Introduction to Microbiology and Disease Process
- Unit 3: Surveillance and Epidemiological Investigation
- Unit 4: Outbreak Management
- Unit 5: Case Studies
What’s the benefit?
The main goal of the Train the Trainer model is to prepare instructors to present information effectively, respond to participant questions, and lead activities that reinforce learning. Other goals include ensuring that trainers can: direct participants to supplementary resources and reference materials. lead discussions, listen effectively, make accurate observations, help participants link the training to their jobs. A Train the Trainer workshop can build a pool of competent instructors who can then teach accurate and high-quality material to their staff.
