Project Firstline Training and Resources

PPE Part 1: Start from the Top (30 minutes)*
Recorded on Nov. 12, 2024
Supplemental CDC video:

• Risk Recognition in Action (MP4)
   

PPE Part 2: Gloves and Gowns (44 minutes)*
Recorded on Nov. 19, 2024
Supplemental CDC videos:

• Why are Gloves Recommended for COVID-19? (YouTube)
• Why are Gowns Recommended for COVID-19? (YouTube)
   

PPE Part 3: Eye Protection (30 minutes)*
Recorded on Nov. 26, 2024
Supplemental CDC video:

• Why is Eye Protection Recommended for COVID-19? (YouTube)
   

PPE Part 4: Masks, Respirators, and User Seal Check (45 minutes)*
Recorded on Dec. 3, 2024
Supplemental CDC videos:

• What is a Respirator? (YouTube)
• How Do I Test the Seal on my N95? (YouTube)
   

PPE Part 5: Donning and Doffing (41 minutes)*
Recorded on Dec. 10, 2024
Supplemental CDC videos:

• Demonstration of Donning (Putting On) Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) (YouTube)
• Demonstration of Doffing Taking Off Personal Protective Equipment PPE (YouTube)
   

PPE Part 6: Choosing the Right PPE (Interactive) (30 minutes)*
Recorded on Dec. 17, 2024
Supplemental CDC resource:

• Choosing the Right PPE Throughout Your Workday

Hand Hygiene (34 minutes)
Recorded on Dec. 12, 2023
Supplemental CDC video:

• Do We Really Have to Talk About Hand Hygiene? Again? Yes! (YouTube)
   

Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection (32 minutes)
Recorded on Feb. 19, 2025
Supplemental CDC video and handout:

• Why Do Cleaning and Disinfection Matter in Healthcare? (YouTube)
• How to Read a Disinfectant Label (PDF)

• Multi-Dose Vials Part 1: Why Injection Safety Matters (23 minutes)
  Recorded on March 12, 2024
• Multi-Dose Vials Part 2: Injection Safety Steps (23 minutes)
  Recorded on March 20, 2024
• Multi-Dose Vials Part 3: A Review (23 minutes)
  Recorded on March 27, 2024

Supplemental resources:

• CDC: Injection Safety Resources for Providers
• CDC: How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vial? (PDF)
• Episode 8a: How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial? Part 1 (YouTube)
• Episode 8b: How Do I Safely Use a Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial? Part 2 (YouTube)
• Multi-Dose Vaccine Vial Injection Safety Tips (YouTube)

What's Wrong with this Picture? Long-term Care Activity Room (23 minutes)
Recorded on April 17, 2024

• Project Firstline Hand Hygiene Steps (PDF)

Enhanced Barrier Precautions (36 minutes)
Recorded on Oct. 4, 2023

Supplemental resources:

• CDC: Implementation of Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) Use in Nursing Homes to Prevent Spread of Multidrug-resistant Organisms (MDROs)​
• CDC: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Enhanced Barrier Precautions in Nursing Homes
• CDC: PPE Sequence​ (PDF)
• CDC: How to Read a Disinfectant Label (PDF)​
• CDC: Enhanced Barrier Precautions Sign ​
  • CDC: Enhanced Barrier Precautions Sign (Spanish) (PDF)​
• CDC Isolation Precautions: Appendix A Type and Duration of Precautions Recommended for Selected Infections and Conditions​

Klebsiella Pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC) (42 minutes)
Recorded on April 10, 2024

Supplemental resources:

• Project Firstline: Klebsiella Pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC) (PDF)
  One pager on KPC basics and IPC actions to stop the spread in health care facilities.
• CDC: PPE Sequence​ (PDF)
• CDC: How to Read a Disinfectant Label (PDF)​
• CDC: Inter-Facility Infection Control Transfer Form (PDF)

Infection Prevention and Control: Traveling to a Home Near You (47 minutes)
Recorded on June 6, 2023

• Diarrhea Dilemma (39 minutes)
  Recorded on March 7, 2023
  • MDH Project Firstline Table Talk: Diarrhea Dilemma (PPT)
    Interactive PowerPoint presentation for facility education.
    • El dilema de la diarrea (Spanish) (PPT)
  • CDC Diarrhea Dilemma Interactive Resource | El dilema de la diarrea (Spanish)
    Optimized for handheld devices.
     
• Fidgeting Felix (36 minutes)
  Recorded on March 28, 2023
  • MDH Project Firstline Table Talk: Fidgeting Felix (PPT)
    Interactive PowerPoint presentation for facility education.
    • A Beto el inquieto le ponen una vía intravenosa (Spanish) (PPT)
  • CDC Fidgeting Felix gets an IV Interactive Resource | A Beto el inquieto le ponen una vía intravenosa (Spanish)
    Optimized for handheld devices.
     
• Where Germs Live in Health Care (39 minutes)
  Recorded on June 21, 2023
  • CDC Where Germs Live in Healthcare Interactive Infographic
    Optimized for handheld devices.

• What's Wrong with this Picture? Emergency Room (19 minutes)
  Recorded on May 2, 2023
  • What's Wrong with this Picture: Emergency Room (PPT)
    Interactive PowerPoint presentation for facility education.
    • ¿Qué está mal en esta foto? Sala de emergencias (Spanish) (PPT)
  • CDC Project Firstline Interactive Resource: What’s Wrong with This Picture? Emergency Room | ¿Qué está mal con esta imagen? Sala de emergencias (Spanish)
    Optimized for handheld devices.
     
• What's Wrong with this Picture? Nurses Station (20 minutes)
  Recorded on May 9, 2023
  • What's Wrong with this Picture: Nurses Station (PPT)
    Interactive PowerPoint presentation for facility education.
    • ¿Qué está mal en esta foto? Estación de enfermería (Spanish) (PPT)
  • CDC Project Firstline Interactive Resource: What’s Wrong with This Picture? Nurses Station | ¿Qué está mal con esta imagen? Estación de enfermería (Spanish)
    Optimized for handheld devices.
     
• What's Wrong with this Picture? Outpatient Exam Room (19 minutes)
  Recorded on May 16, 2023
  • What's Wrong with this Picture: Outpatient Exam Room (PPT)
    Interactive PowerPoint presentation for facility education.
    • ¿Qué está mal en esta foto? Sala ambulatoria (Spanish) (PPT)
  • CDC Project Firstline Interactive Resource: What’s Wrong with This Picture? Outpatient Exam Room | ¿Qué está mal con esta imagen? Sala ambulatoria (Spanish)
    Optimized for handheld devices.

• What Does it Mean to Recognize a Risk? (31 minutes)
  Recorded on Sept. 7, 2022
  • CDC Participant Booklet: What Does It Mean to Recognize a Risk? (PDF)
     
• How Germs Make People Sick (34 minutes)
  Recorded on Sept. 28, 2022
  • CDC Participant Booklet: How Germs Make People Sick (PDF)
     
• Recognizing Risk Using Reservoirs (A Review) (34 minutes)
  Recorded on Oct. 19, 2022
  • CDC Participant Booklet: Recognizing Risk Using Reservoirs: A Review (PDF)

• Body Reservoirs (33 minutes)
  Recorded on Nov. 9, 2022
  • Body Reservoirs Word Cloud
  • CDC Participant Booklet: Body Reservoirs (PDF)
     
• Health Care Environment Reservoirs (35 minutes)
  Recorded on Nov. 29, 2022
  • CDC Participant Booklet: Health Care Environment Reservoirs (PDF)
     
• Body and Health Care Environment Reservoirs: Synthesis (31 minutes)
  Recorded on Dec. 13, 2022
  • CDC Participant Booklet: Body and Health Care Environment Reservoirs: Synthesis (PDF)

Infection Prevention and Control Actions to Stop the Spread of Viral Respiratory Infections (23 minutes)
Recorded on Oct. 24, 2023
Supplemental resources:

• Viral Respiratory Illness in Minnesota
• CDC: Infection Control Actions for Respiratory Viruses (PDF)
• CDC: PPE Sequence Handout (PDF)
• CDC: Ventilation in Healthcare Settings (PDF)
• CDC: Influenza ACIP Vaccine Recommendations
• CDC: COVID-19 ACIP Vaccine Recommendations
• CDC: RSV ACIP Vaccine Recommendations

How Viruses Spread from Surfaces to People Refresher (21 minutes)
Recorded on Nov. 2, 2023
Supplemental resources:

• Episode 6: How Do Viruses Spread From Surfaces To People? (YouTube)
• CDC Inside Infection Control Participant Booklet: How Viruses Spread from Surfaces to People (PDF)
   

How Respiratory Droplets Spread COVID-19 Refresher (22 minutes)
Recorded on Nov. 9, 2023
Supplemental resources:

• Episode 4: What’s a Respiratory Droplet? Why Does it Matter? (YouTube)
• CDC Inside Infection Control Participant Booklet: How Respiratory Droplets Spread COVID-19 (PDF)
   

Source Control Refresher (21 minutes)
Recorded on Nov. 16, 2023
Supplemental resources:

• Episode 23: What is Source Control? (YouTube)
   

Asymptomatic Spread of COVID-19 Refresher (20 minutes)
Recorded on Nov. 21, 2023
Supplemental resources:

• Episode 24: How Can COVID-19 Spread When You Don’t Feel Sick? (YouTube)
• CDC Inside Infection Control Participant Booklet: How COVID-19 Spreads (A Review) (PDF)
• CDC: How Flu Spreads
• CDC: Flu Symptoms & Diagnosis
• CDC: Masking Sign (PDF)
   

Choosing the Right PPE for COVID-19 Refresher (22 minutes)
Recorded on Nov. 30, 2023
Supplemental resources:

• CDC: Choosing the Right PPE for COVID-19 Interactive Resource
• CDC: PPE Sequence Handout

The Concept of Infection Control (25 minutes)*
Recorded on Feb. 9, 2022

• CDC Inside Infection Control Participant Booklet: The Concept of Infection Control (PDF)
   

Ventilation (32 minutes)*
Recorded on March 8, 2022
Supplemental CDC handout:

• Ventilation in Healthcare Settings (PDF)

Basic Science of a Virus (29 minutes)*
Recorded on May 4, 2022

• CDC Inside Infection Control Participant Booklet: Basic Science of a Virus (PDF)
   

Virus Strains (27 minutes)*
Recorded on May 18, 2022
Supplemental CDC handout:

• Virus Strains (PDF)