February Live Training Event
For Pacific West Sterile Processing Professionals
Saturday, February 4th, 2023
Cost $50 for all Attendees
Session 1
C.H.I.P. Tips (Care, Handling , Inspection, & Prevention) for the SPD Professional
(Cheron Rojo, Healthmark)
- Review Sterile Processing tips in everyday tasks in the decontamination area
- Understand the importance of handling instrumentation and equipment within your department on the decontamination side
- Reinforce the basic technical principles that are used in the decontamination area
- Understand the impact that standards and guidelines have in a properly functioning department within the decontamination area that processes instrumentation and medical devices
Session 2
Keeping Biofilms at Bay in Your Reprocessing Loop
(Michele McKinley, STERIS Corp.)
- List three requirements for biofilm formation.
- Describe the hazards of medical biofilm formation.
- Identify areas where biofilms hide and ways to mitigate their formation.
Session 3
What Am I Looking At: Visual Inspection
(Cheron Rojo, Healthmark)
- Define Optical inspection
- Review the benefits of optical inspection of medical devices
- Review various methods for optical inspection
- Demonstrate examples of inferior cleaning exposed with the use of optical inspection.
Session 4
Breaking the Chain of Infection
(Michele McKinley, STERIS Corp.)
- Name the three factors that contribute to the spread of infection.
- State the infection transmission pathways.
- Identify ways to break the chain of infection in SPD.
Session 5
Assessment and Enhancement of the SPD and Beyond
(Dave Jagrosse, Ascend Co.)
- A consistent system for lowering and limiting bioburden before sterilization
- Properly preparing items for sterilization
- Selecting the appropriate sterilization parameters.
- Establishing and implementing controls to maintain the sterility of sterilized items until they are used.
Session 6
Joint Commission Experience Q&A Panel
(Gene Ricupito - UCSF, Rebecca Alvino - UCSF, Cheron Rojo - Healthmark)
- Identify Joint Commission standards that apply to sterile processing practices and personnel.
- List practices that Joint Commission could identify as deficient.
- Discuss some ways sterile processing departments can develop plans of correction that will satisfy Joint Commission deficiencies.
- Name some facility partners that can assist sterile processing with return to or maintenance of compliance with the Joint Commission standards.