• Upon registration participants are required to attest that if they begin to experience symptoms, consistent with COVID-19, they will contact IDN immediately to be rescheduled to a future course.
• Prior to entering the course, participants/IDN instructor will be screened for symptoms consistent with COVID-19.  If positive symptoms are discovered the student will not be permitted to attend the course and will be rescheduled to a future course.  If the IDN instructor has symptoms, consistent with COVID-19, he/she will be replaced with another IDN instructor who does not have symptoms.
• If a participant learns that they have been exposed, or diagnosed, with COVID-19 within a 7-day period after completion of the course they agree to contact IDN so that the other course participants can be notified.
• Class size will be such that the appropriate social distancing can be achieved.
• Hand sanitizer to sanitize hands will be available at each course.
• Wearing of gloves will be required.  Gloves will be provided at each course. 
• IDN will follow all current CDC guidelines as it relates to face coverings.  Local recommendations will also be considered on a case by case basis.
• Dry needling lab demonstrations will be performed by the instructor on a volunteer at the front of the room. The demonstration will have live video that will be projected in real time on the front screen allowing all participants to clearly see the techniques and avoid gathering at the front of the room. 
• IDN labs are performed with a groups of 3 participants per treatment table. Under normal circumstances participants have the option to move to into different groups/tables throughout the course.  Effective immediately, participants will remain at the same table throughout the course to minimize contact with other participants.
• Environmental decontamination: The treatment tables will be disinfected each time the group of 3 rotates the subject that was receiving the needling.

These safety measures were put in place based on the current information and guidelines and will be striclty enforced.  As new information and guidelines become available, we will modify our procedures to assure the highest level of safety and compliance with health and government requirements.

Participants that refuse to follow saftey guidelines will be removed from the course.

IDN’s policies and procedures were developed using the following sources:

1. https://www.cdc.gov
2. https://www.osha.go