Healthcare workers and Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) practitioners nationwide yearn to improve IPC standards in their facilities to provide patients with safe and high-quality healthcare.
The PALS IPC Change Agent training program is one way that NCDC supports health care workers in their efforts to improve IPC in the health facility. This training program aims at bringing IPC knowledge into practice in Nigerian health facilities. It builds on the key pillars of teamwork, equitable communication and leverages the experiences of local players and the local conditions in the health facility to address identified challenges. The approach adds a social and systemic organizational lens to the clinical or technical knowledge to make effective implementation possible.
The Change Agent Training Book is designed to stimulate participants of the PALS IPC Change Agent Training Programme to deepen their understanding of the “Participatory Approach to Learning in Systems (PALS)”. It is the second in a series of training manuals published on the PALS approach. It presents the PALS concept for improvement in infection prevention and control in health facilities, describes its theoretical underpinnings, gives an overview on communication and collaboration methods and models which help to translate PALS into practice in health facilities. It also offers a practical toolbox with tools and exercises that are used in PALS trainings and that can be applied in specific contexts in the health facility.
May this training book serve to strengthen IPC teams in health facilities across the country for more effective IPC practice!