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  • Training and Resources

Related Topics

  • Hand Hygiene
  • Cover Your Cough
  • Infection Prevention and Control
  • Infection Control Assessment and Response Program (ICAR)
  • Patient Safety
  • Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship
  • Reporting Infectious Disease
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Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
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Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Prevention and Control Division
651-201-5414
IDEPC Comment Form

Project Firstline Training and Resources

Project Firstline's innovative content is designed, regardless of the previous training or educational background, to empower workers in building their foundational knowledge of infection prevention and control.

On this page:
Recorded webinars
     Health care infection prevention and control
     Interactive resources
     Risk & reservoirs
     Respiratory illness
Education bundles
Resources

Recorded webinars

You must register before viewing the recording. Watch a recorded training session and fill out the feedback form to receive proof of attendance via email.

Health care infection prevention and control

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)
  • 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

Interactive resources

  • 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.

Risk & reservoirs

  • 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)

Respiratory illness

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)
     

Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection (29 minutes)*
Recorded on Dec. 14, 2021
Supplemental CDC video and handout:

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

 *Proof of attendance is not currently available for trainings with an asterisk.


Education bundles

MDH Project Firstline Diarrhea Education Bundle (PDF)

  • Hand Hygiene Recorded Training
  • Diarrhea Dilemma Recorded Training
  • MDH Project Firstline Table Talk: Diarrhea Dilemma (PPT)
    • El dilema de la diarrea (Spanish) (PPT)
  • CDC: Diarrhea Dilemma Interactive Scenario
    • El dilema de la diarrea (Spanish)
  • CDC: Diarrhea Micro-Learn (PDF)
    • Microaprendizajes de control de infecciones: Guía del usuario (Spanish) (PDF)
  • CDC: Did you Know? Germs Live in the Gut (YouTube)
  • Project Firstline Hand Hygiene Steps (PDF)
  • Germs Live in the Gut (PDF)
    • Los microbios viven en "los intestinos" (Spanish) (PDF)
  • CDC: How to Read a Disinfectant Label (PDF)
    • Cómo leer la etiqueta de un desinfectante (Spanish) (PDF)
MDH Project Firstline Diarrhea Education Bundle

MDH Project Firstline Blood Education Bundle (PDF)

  • Multi-Dose Vials Part 2: Injection Safety Steps Recorded Training
  • Fidgeting Felix gets an IV Recorded Training
  • MDH Project Firstline Table Talk: Fidgeting Felix (PPT)
    • A Beto el inquieto le ponen una vía intravenosa (Spanish) (PPT)
  • Fidgeting Felix gets an IV Interactive Scenario
    • A Beto el inquieto le ponen una vía intravenosa (Spanish)
  • CDC: Blood Micro-Learn (PDF)
    • Microaprendizajes de control de infecciones: Guía del usuario (Spanish) (PDF)
  • CDC: Did you Know? Germs Can Live in Blood (YouTube)
  • Germs Can Live in Blood (PDF)
    • Los microbios pueden vivir en la sangre (Spanish) (PDF)
  • CDC: Preventing Unsafe Injection Practices
  • EPA’s Registered Antimicrobial Products Effective Against Bloodborne Pathogens [List S]
MDH Project Firstline Blood Education Bundle

Resources

  • Minnesota Department of Health Project Firstline (PDF)
    General flyer about MDH PFL trainings and resources.
  • Project Firstline Hand Hygiene Steps (PDF)
    Detailed handwashing steps for infection prevention and control (IPC) among frontline staff in health care and other settings.
  • Project Firstline: Klebsiella Pneumoniae Carbapenemase (KPC) (PDF)
    One pager on KPC basics and IPC actions to stop the spread in health care facilities.
  • Fact sheets for download/print:
    • Germs live on the skin (PDF)
    • Germs live in the gut (PDF)
    • Germs can live in the respiratory system (PDF)
    • Germs can live in blood (PDF)
    • Germs live in water and on wet surfaces (PDF)
    • Germs can live on dry surfaces (PDF)
    • Germs can live on devices (PDF)
    • Germs can live in dirt (PDF)
    • Project Firstline Risk Poster (PDF)
  • CDC: About Project Firstline
    CDC’s National Training Collaborative for Healthcare Infection Prevention & Control.
  • CDC: Project Firstline Print Materials, Graphics and More
    Social media graphics, print materials, event recordings, and more.

CDC: Training and Educational Materials
Almost all materials are available in English and Spanish.
Casi todos los materiales están disponibles en inglés y español

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Last Updated: 05/12/2025

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