Healthcare Safety Training
The Healthcare-Associated Infection/Antimicrobial Resistance (HAI/AR) Resource team is dedicated to reducing healthcare-associated infections by providing comprehensive trainings and educational resources to healthcare workers, public health, and allied professionals across Texas. We want you to be confident in infection prevention and control regardless of your role and educational background.
We provide learning needs assessments, webinars, in-person training events, and more to address your organizational infection prevention and control learning needs.
Project Firstline
Texas is leading statewide efforts, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Project Firstline. Project Firstline is a training collaborative on infection prevention and control that offers education for the healthcare and the public health workforce. Learners are equipped with infection control principles that will protect them, their facilities, and their communities from infectious disease threats.
Learn more about Project Firstline here: Project Firstline Factsheet
Training and Educational Resources
Trainings
Upcoming Trainings:
Texas Department of State Health Services offers sponsored courses to support infection control learning for healthcare and public health workers across Texas.
These courses have limited space; to qualify and enroll, complete the prerequisite Project Firstline Trainings and submit your training tracker to HSUTraining@dshs.texas.gov
You will be added to an enrollee list for upcoming sponsored infection prevention courses.
Completed a Project Firstline Training? Submit Your Training Tracker!
Recordings/Webinars:
Watch these on-demand resources to help expand your infection prevention and control knowledge:
Educational Resources
Project Firstline materials are available on a variety of infection control topics and are available in both English and Spanish.
- Training and Educational Materials | Project Firstline | CDC
- Spanish language resources available / Disponibles en español
English Ice Micro-Learn | Spanish Ice Micro-Learn |
 Ice Micro-Learn (CDC, PDF in English, p. 4) |  Ice Micro-Learn (CDC, PDF in Spanish, page 4) |
Newsletters
HAI-Lights Newsletter
Tailored for students and faculty at Texas medical, nursing, and public health schools, the HAI-Lights Newsletter delivers concise insights on vital infection prevention and control topics. Help us expand our reach by subscribing and sharing with others in your network.
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Healthcare Safety Newsletter
The Healthcare Safety Newsletter covers critical topics for healthcare and public health professionals including alerts and advisories, healthcare-associated infections, preventable adverse events, and the latest infection control resources.
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