41 Hygiene courses in Edinburgh

Gain comprehensive knowledge and practical skills for safe and effective fine-bore nasogastric tube insertion, care, and use with our healthcare professional course.

Gain a comprehensive understanding of suprapubic catheters with our course. Learn about indications, insertion procedures, and ongoing care to ensure optimal outcomes for patients.

Enhance your ear assessment and care skills with our comprehensive course on ear irrigation. Learn anatomy, assessment techniques, and safe practices for optimal ear health.

Infection prevention and control course

This course aims to give the learner the skills and knowledge to assist in the care of a client with a PEG. Covering conditions, hygiene, risks and complications.

Enhance your knowledge and skills in pressure area care with our comprehensive course. Ideal for healthcare professionals, caregivers, and nurses.

Work place risk assesment

Designed to identify and discuss Personal Protective Equipment, correct hand hygiene, standard precautions when working with customers, dealing with sharps, COSHH and a brief look at specific infections.

This course is suited to those who are involved in the planning, provision, and assistance of meals for those in care. It provides a solid insight into the basics of good nutrition as well as providing practical guidance for how to put these into practice within a care setting. Learners will also look briefly at Food Hygiene. This subject forms standard 8 in The Care Certificate.

A high-impact programme designed to be fun and to get people fully involved. The first-class, jargon-free content is based on what people need to know in practice, not off-putting legal language. This introductory course covers: Introducing Working Safely: Accidents can happen to anyone. The realities of the human suffering behind the statistics. The importance of personal responsibility. Defining hazard and risk: Focusing on the six broad hazard groups, participants are asked to think about the hazards and risks they come across in their own work. 'Risk assessment' demystified. Identifying common hazards: All the main issues - aggression and violence, asbestos, bullying, chemicals and harmful substances, computer workstations, confined spaces, drugs and alcohol, electricity, fire, getting in and out, height, housekeeping, lighting, manual handling, noise, personal hygiene, plant and machinery, slips and trips, stress, temperature, vehicles and transport, and welfare facilities. Improving safety performance: Bridging the gap between management and workforce, encouraging participants to play their part. Also covered: contract work, inspections, safe systems and permits, protective equipment, signage, emergency procedures, reporting and health checks.