36th Annual Conference & Vendor Exhibit
For Central Service/Sterile Processing Professionals
July 16 & 17, 2022
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
All fees must be paid at time of Registration
Seating is Limited – Register Early
No On-Site/Walk-In Registration
Continuing Education Credits
HPSA = 12 CEUs
CBSPD = 12 CEUs
Event Sponsor
Meal Sponsor
Speakers and Topics
Saturday
7 to 8am - Breakfast/Check-in
8 to 9am - Session 1
Cheron Rojo, BS, CRCST, CIS, CER, CFER, CHL, FCS
Clinical Education Specialist - Healthmark Industries
The Impact of Attitude on our Everyday Behaviors
- Understand and define the power of attitude bad or good, the ABC's in attitudes, and how attitudes or learned
- Identify behaviors from an attitude and the different types of behaviors like "eating your young" and other toxic behaviors
- Review work cultures and how they are learned and developed
- Identify and implement methods to reclaim your mind with negative thoughts and replace with positive ones
- Discuss how to build and maintain a positive attitude
- Describe and identify the power of implementing an attitude of gratitude
9 to 9:15am - Break
9:15 to 10:15am - Session 2
Delores O’Connell, LPN, BA, AGTS, ASQ-CQIA, CRCST, CIS, CER, CHL, FCS, CSPDT
Senior Clinical Education Specialist – STERIS Corporation
Keeping Biofilms ay Bay in Your Reprocessing Loop
- List three requirements for biofilm formation
- Describe the hazards of medical biofilm formation
- Identify areas where biofilms hide and ways to mitigate their formation
10:15 to 10:30am – Break
10:30 to 11:30am - Session 3
Ofeo Amevor, CRCST, CHL, CIS
Operations Manager – Penn State Health System
How to get staff involved with processes in the department
- Different forms of groups
- Who’s idea is it?
11:30am to 12:30pm – Lunch
12:30 to 1:30pm - Session 4
Jhmeid Billingslea, CRCST CIS CER CHL CMRP CST
Managing Director Surgical Services – Advantage Support Services, Inc.
Communication and Assessing Your Current Processes and Practices
- Describe the sources for SPD Best Practices
- Deliver advice on comparing current policies and protocols to Best Practice Industry standards
- Discuss the importance of performing a personal self-assessment on your leadership style vs. what the department and circumstances require
- Share methods to develop a foundation for SPD by performing an internal assessment
- Explain how to write a clear action plan post performing a process assessment
- Illustrate strategies for mining data by asking what, why, and how throughout the steps of the process
- Convey tips for prioritizing opportunities and immediately tackling low hanging fruit and planning for difficult challenges
- Advise attendees on how to create win/win interactions using the Customer’s language
- Offer Information on ways to network and obtain and receive mentorship and other leadership tools to aid in personal and departmental continuous improvement
1:30 to 1:45pm – Break
1:45 to 2:45pm - Session 5
Amanda Benedict, Damien S. Berg, Sarah B. Cruz, Casey Czarnowski, Elizabeth Pincus, Marjorie Wall
Moderator: Gene Ricupito
Entry-Level Positions in Healthcare: Stepping Stones or Ladder Rungs?
- Define the term entry-level.
- What constitutes entry-level in healthcare?
- Examine the preconceived notions related to the term entry-level.
- Discuss how one of the entry-level positions can lead to a career.
- Discuss the benefits of a personal career ladder.
- Is entry-level a relevant term in the world of health care?
2:45 to 3pm – Break
3 to 4pm - Session 6
Elizabeth Pincus, MSN, MBA, RN, ACNS-BC, CNS-CP, CNOR
Nursing Professional Development Specialist - Stanford Health
AORN President-elect
Generational Differences
- Identify generations currently in the workforce
- Discuss characteristics and stereotypes of each generation
- Apply best practices to successfully collaborate with other generations
4pm – Adjournment
Sunday
6 to 7am – Vendor Set-up
7 to 8am - Breakfast/Vendor Exhibit
8 to 9am - Session 1
Cheron Rojo, BS, CRCST, CIS, CER, CFER, CHL, FCS
Clinical Education Specialist - Healthmark Industries
A Case Study: Inspection and Integrity Testing of Insulated Instruments: Concerns for Failure and New Guidelines for Testing
- Review the ANSI/AAMI ST79 2020 amendment that supports insulation testing of insulated instrumentation and devices.
- Identify the different types of damage of the insulation, and their root causes while identifying methods that can protect insulated instrumentation and devices through the whole process.
- Discuss the failure rates identified from the case study of insulated instrumentation and devices from the type of insulated instrument and device to insulated laparoscopic instrument trays.
- Discuss best practices in building and maintaining an effective verification testing program within your department.
9 to 9:30am - Break/Vendor Exhibit
9:30 to 10:30am - Session 2
Amanda Benedict and Damien S. Berg
AAMI ST91 Update
10:30 to 10:45am - Break/Vendor Exhibit
10:45 to 11:45pm - Session 3
Michele McKinley, LVN, CRCST, CIS, CHL, AGTS, ASQ CQM/OE, ASQ CQA, ASQ CSSYB
Senior Clinical Education Specialist - STERIS Corporation
Sterilization Failures: How They Fit Into Your QMS Program
- Identify sterilization failures
- Identify preventive actions to prevent sterilization failures
- Identify how sterilization failures fit into the departmental Quality Management System (QMS) program
11:45 to 1pm - Lunch/Vendor Exhibit
1 to 2pm - Session 4
Jhmeid Billingslea, CRCST, CIS, CER, CHL, CMRP, CST
Managing Director Surgical Services - Advantage Support Services, Inc.
Leadership in CS/SP – From the OR and in Between
- Deliver tips on operationalizing the new you and your new department
- Advise attendees on transparent communication style
- Deliver tools to assess the frequency of personal meetings, daily meetings (huddle), and staff meetings
- Convey strategies for taking an educational approach to process improvement
- Suggest ways to strengthen relationships with O.R. team and Customers
- Define and practice two-way accountability with internal team and Customers using Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Share approaches for establish special roles without changing job descriptions
- Evaluating internal staffing levels and assignments and developing your team
- Working with external teams to sustain new state
2 to 2:15pm - Break/Vendor Exhibit
2:15 to 3:15pm - Session 5
Sarah B. Cruz, CSPDT, CRCST, CHL, CSSNerd
President and Founder - PRETREAT CSS
President - Connecticut chapter of HSPA
Member of Board of Directors - HSPA
Sterile Processing Foundations: Purposeful Professional Development
- Execute effective objective driven goal planning
- Examine the different types of mentorship
- Define their industry expertise within the Sterile Processing Industry
- Evaluate the five aspects of ‘why’ to create actionable steps in professional development
- Determine how to incorporate all objectives into a professional vision
3:15 to 3:30pm - Break/Vendor Exhibit
3:30 to 4:30pm - Session 6
Marjorie Wall, MLOS, CRCST, CIS, CHL, CSSBB
Regional Director of Sterile Processing - Memorial Hermann - Houston, Texas
President – HSPA
Solving the Unsolvable with Multidisciplinary Collaboration
- Understand strategic relationship building.
- Understand the importance of psychological safety and voice in decision making.
- Understand the negative impact of team silence.
- Learn strategies to build trust and partnership in difficult situations.
- Learn tools to build high performing multidisciplinary teams.
- Explore applied examples of building multidisciplinary collaborative teams to tackle difficult problems in Sterile Processing.
4:30pm - Conference Adjourned
Hotel Information
Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino
3667 South Las Vegas Boulevard
Las Vegas, Nevada 89109
Discount Room Rates:
$143.00 per night
(Room rate for 1 or 2 guests, plus room tax and resort fees)
(Room reservations must be made before Friday, June 24, 2022 to receive discount rate)
Room Tax 13.38% per night
Resort Fees $41.95 per night
Self-Parking $15.00 per day
Valet Parking $32.00 per day
Room reservations at Planet Hollywood:
Online reservations: https://book.passkey.com/go/smccs2
Phone reservations: 866-317-1829 - Group Code SMCCS2
(An additional fee of $15.00 is charged for phone reservations)
Additional Conference Information
- Conference registration deadline: Friday, July 8, 2022
- Hotel room discount deadline: Friday, June 24 2022
- All fees must be paid at time of registration
- No On-Site/Walk-In registration
- HSPA and CBSPD Approval Codes will be given after the conference
- HSPA members who are not also CCSA members will be charged the non-member fee
- Complete conference is worth 12 hours continuing education credit
- Attendees who leave early will receive credit only for presentations actually attended, please make travel arrangements accordingly
- Cancellation Policy: Refund on request 14 days prior to the seminar