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Session 4 | The Environment of care
This session will focus on the important role proper cleaning, sterilization and disinfection of equipment and other objects within the environment play in successful infection prevention.
Target Audience
This course is designed for novice, beginner and newly competent staff working in IP. Anyone whose hospital is participating in the Compass HQIC program is eligible to participate.
Learning Objectives
- Give examples of how the Spaulding process is used to identify the appropriate level of cleaning for specific devices or equipment
- Describe the role of the IP in evaluating cleaning products and collaborating with Environmental Services
- Identify key issues impacting cleaning, disinfection, sterilization and storage in the OR
- Discuss the importance of robust infection prevention measures in endoscopy including proper disinfection and storage
- Illustrate methods for objective monitoring of the environment, the OR and the endoscopy suite
This session will focus on the important role proper cleaning, sterilization and disinfection of equipment and other objects within the environment play in successful infection prevention.
- Give examples of how the Spaulding process is used to identify the appropriate level of cleaning for specific devices or equipment
- Describe the role of the IP in evaluating cleaning products and collaborating with Environmental Services
- Identify key issues impacting cleaning, disinfection, sterilization and storage in the OR
- Discuss the importance of robust infection prevention measures in endoscopy including proper disinfection and storage
- Illustrate methods for objective monitoring of the environment, the OR and the endoscopy suite
LINDA R. GREENE
Linda R. Greene, RN, MPS, CIC, FAPIC, is Director of Infection Prevention at the University of Rochester Highland Hospital, Rochester, New York. She has extensive experience in infection prevention in the acute care, long-term care and ambulatory surgery settings. Greene held leadership roles in her local Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) chapter before becoming a member of the APIC Board of Directors. She served as APIC president in 2017. Greene serves APIC and the IPC profession in myriad ways, including as an advisor and contributor to APIC position papers and implementation guides. The author of dozens of peer-reviewed publications, she is an expert on quality improvement, antimicrobial stewardship and healthcare-associated infections.
2.0 nursing contact hours will be awarded for each live session in the webinar series by IHA, Iowa Board of Nursing Provider No. 4. Iowa nursing contact hours will not be issued unless your Iowa license number was provided at registration. For nursing contact hours to be offered, you must log in individually, your webinar sign-in and sign-out times will be verified. Partial credit for individual sessions will not be granted.