ASHE Ventilation e-Learning Course
e-Learning CoursesASHE Ventilation e-Learning Courses for Clinicians and Facilities Managers and Staff
The eLearning course is an interactive program for clinicians and facilities management staff working in a health care setting. Learn why ventilation is critical to the health care environment and what you can do to support infection control. Learn about the priorities of facilities management, including balancing airflow throughout critical spaces. The e-Learning course provides recommendations for communicating with the facilities or clinical team to build a partnership that creates a comfortable and healing environment for patients and tests knowledge with a short, interactive quiz.
Important Information
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the ventilation components of the heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system that are associated with infection control.
- Determine how ventilation minimizes the spread of infection.
- Assess construction risks, develop mitigating strategies, monitor the effectiveness of those strategies and determine documentation requirements.
- Use the Ventilation Tool developed by the American Society for Health Care Engineering (ASHE) to work with your facilities manager to improve air quality and reduce the spread of infection in the health care setting.
- Use best practices to help the facilities team maintain a safe and healing environment.
- Use communication tools and strategies to work with facilities management to meet your shared goals.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify the ventilation components of the HVAC system that are associated with infection control.
- Determine how ventilation minimizes the spread of infection.
- Use best practices to help the clinical team maintain a safe and healing environment.
- Support the clinical team to improve air quality and reduce the spread of infection in the health care setting through effective communication.
- ASHE Member: FREE
- Nonmember: FREE
The Project Firstline program is a national training collaborative led by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in partnership with the American Hospital Association and the Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), an AHA 501(c)(3) nonprofit subsidiary.
Project Firstline is a national collaborative led by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to provide infection control training and education to frontline health care workers and public health personnel. AHA is proud to partner with Project Firstline, as supported through Cooperative Agreement CDC-RFA-OT18-1802 & CDC-RFA-CK20-2003. CDC is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of this webpage do not necessarily represent the policies of CDC or HHS, and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.