Educational Resources
CDC’s Project Firstline Educational Resources
Project Firstline Homepage
CDC’s National Training Collaborative for Healthcare Infection Prevention & Control
About Project Firstline
Learn more about the key features to CDC’s Project Firstline training initiative.
Learn about infection control and COVID-19
Project Firstline is committed to creating resources that help frontline healthcare workers understand and confidently apply the infection control principles and protocols necessary to protect themselves, their families, and their community.
Learn about infection control in healthcare
Infection control is more than just policies and procedures, it’s an essential part of caring for and protecting patients. When you can understand and apply infection control actions consistently and confidently – every person, every action, every day – it saves lives.
Project Firstline Educational Materials
Project Firstline has created a new suite of educational materials and resources to help frontline healthcare workers, like you, understand and confidently apply the infection control actions necessary to protect your patients, yourselves, and your coworkers.
Project Firstline Partner Initiatives, Resources and Tools
American Medical Association
- Live Event: Little Patients, Big IPC Challenges in Pediatric Facilities (June 18)
- Video: Flexing Your IPC Muscles in Acute Rehabilitation Facilities
- Video: Wrapping Your Mind Around IPC in Behavioral Health Facilities
- Video: Operation IPC in Ambulatory Surgery Centers
- Video: Bringing the IPC Message Home in Long-Term Care Facilities
- Video: Filtering Through IPC Information in Outpatient Dialysis Facilities
American Nurses Association
American Academy of Pediatrics
- Download: Cleaning and Disinfection Checklist for Pediatric Settings
- Webpage/ Toolkit: Think Measles: Recognizing and Addressing Measles in Pediatric Practice
- Webpage/ Toolkit: Infection Prevention and Control Toolkit for Pediatric Settings
- Online Course: Infection Prevention and Control for Pediatric Clinics
- Webpage/ Downloads: Infection Prevention and Control Precaution Tools
American Hospital Association
- Videos: EVS Frontline Staff Education
- The Front Line of Infection Prevention and Control
- Cleaning Occupied and Discharged Patient Rooms
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Operating and Procedure Rooms
- Cleaning and Disinfecting Ambulatory Care Centers, Physician Offices and Clinics
- Download: Emergency Management Playbook: A Back-to-Basics Approach to Infection Control and More for Health Care Facilities
- Online Course: ASHE Ventilation e-Learning Course for Clinicians, Facilities and Staff
- Webpage: ASHE Ventilation Quick Guides
- Videos: Team Strategies and Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (STEPPS)
- SBAR
- Closed-Loop Communication
- Handoff
- Brief
- Huddle
- Debrief
- CUS
- DESC
- Shared Mental Model
National Network of Public Health Institutions
University of South Florida College of Public Health
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 healthcare workers and public health personnel. Nebraska ICAP is proud to partner with Project Firstline, as supported through Nebraska DHHS. CDC is an agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The contents of these podcasts do not necessarily represent the policies of CDC or HHS and should not be considered an endorsement by the Federal Government.