The New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) Communicable Disease Service (CDS) is collaborating with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Project Firstline, a national initiative designed to provide trainings and additional education and tools regarding infection prevention and control practices to frontline healthcare workers. The goal is to provide foundational knowledge of infection prevention and control measures and emphasize the importance of implementing these protocols throughout the workday to ensure best practice in healthcare settings. This initiative aims to help every healthcare worker gain confidence to apply infection prevention and control principles in their work setting to protect themselves, their patients and the community from infectious disease threats.  

Training and educational tools and resources will be provided to healthcare workers based on practices that prevent the spread of infectious disease, including hand hygiene, use of personal protective equipment (PPE), environmental cleaning and more.  

For more information on Project Firstline, please visit the CDC website. 

For more information on healthcare-associated infections, please visit the NJDOH website.  

NJDOH Project Firstline Micro-Learn Topics

• "Reducing Infections from Water Sources" (English) 
• "What is a Virus" (English | Spanish)
• "Optimizing Standards of Care" (English | Spanish)
• "Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Workers" (English | Spanish)
• "Injection Safety" (English | Spanish)
• "Hand Hygiene" (English | Spanish)
• "Cleaning and Disinfection" (English | Spanish)

Additional IPC Tools

• NJDOH Steps of Doffing Gloves
• Project Firstline Scavenger Hunt 
• Infection Control Actions
• Project Firstline Training One Pager
• Project Firstline Toolkit
• Fight Antimicrobial Resistance with Infection Control Factsheet
• Project Firstline Hand Hygiene Factsheet (NJDOH) [English] [Spanish]
• Project Firstline Escape Room One Pager
• Cleaning and Disinfection Factsheet (NJDOH)  
• How to Read a Disinfectant Label

Project Firstline: NJ College Tour

The goal of this initiative is to reach the future healthcare and allied health workforce to start their careers with the infection control knowledge to keep themselves and their patients safe.  Click on the links below if you want to learn more about how you can co-host or hear about past students' infection control experiences!

• Project Firstline: New Jersey College Tour One Pager

CDC Project Firstline Toolkit for Health Professions Faculty

CDC Project Firstline has expanded its offerings with the new Health Professions Infection Control Education Toolkit, designed to support faculty preparing future healthcare and public health professionals. These resources can be easily integrated into existing curricula and adapted for a variety of instructional formats and learning environments.

With options ranging from discussion-based learning to interactive and career-focused content, the toolkit provides flexible, practical tools to help educators build a strong foundation in infection control for the next generation of the workforce. 

• Critical In-Language Materials from the Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum

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