Educational Offerings 2009

 Cleaning, The Critical First Step…   Cleaning is essential for all further decontamination steps, and can impact patient as well as staff safety.  Explore the “science of cleaning”.  Learn to differentiate between different instrument chemistries, understand the importance of water quality and how to assess product and process effectiveness.

 Loaner Trays, Challenges and Solutions…  Consignment trays are a challenge with handling issues and now extended re-processing times.  Let’s explore the problems, put our ideas together and find some answers to the latest sterilization challenge.

  To Flash or Not to Flash, Expediency or Necessity…  Flash Sterilization has become routine practice at some facilities.  How can the process be improved?  When is it truly needed?  What is required for validation?  Let’s debate the issue, and review policy and practices.

  Challenges Impacting Re-Processing of Reusable Devices…  Decontamination is a requirement for sterilization of patient care items. A combination of people, process and product are critical to ensure safe patient outcome.   Focus: cleaning, the critical first step and verification for quality control.

  Sustainable Solutions…  Worldwide healthcare professionals are looking for products and solutions that offer better patient outcome. This includes truthful information, validation testing, standardized procedures and ethical behavior. Explore sustainable solutions that contribute to safe patient outcome and “Sacred Cows” or rituals that are merely followed.

  Proper Sterile Packaging… A review of packaging options for surgical instruments.  From linen to disposable wrap to sealed containers, Sterile Processing and OR managers are faced with a variety of choices.  Let’s look at the options and the science.

  Crafty Case Solutions: Ways to Solve Procedure Tray Clutter… Techniques and options for organizing surgical instrument sets amongst a group of diverse staff.  Lecture and hands on workshop.

  Rigid Reusable Container Systems… The history, the current AAMI standards, the issues involved in selecting and utilizing rigid container systems. 

 Risky Business: Sterilization Solutions for the New Millennium… Challenging scenarios in our rapidly changing healthcare world.  Focus: infection control solutions, including new methods of sterilization and verification.   Discussion of infectious pathogens and a review of sterilization solutions from around the world in a headline news show format.

  Creating and Enforcing SPD Procedures…  Policies and procedures are required to guide the day-to-day operations of the department.  Discuss key elements necessary for a successful SPD policy/procedure system.

Interpersonal Relations Workshops

  Communication Workshop 101…  Communication is an interpersonal process of people relating to each other.  Effective communication in healthcare enhances patient safety and the quality of care.  A personal style inventory will be utilized to help you identify your patterns of thinking and behaving and to help you develop a more satisfactory relationship with others.

  Communication Workshop 201…  Influence style has become increasingly important as organizations become less hierarchical and diverse.  The focus has shifted from competition to collaboration, from edict to persuasion.  Identify your individual influence style and what you can do to be a more effective leader.

  Person to Person: We can help…  Service is the business of healthcare.  It requires a group effort of caring and dedicated professionals that network for problem solving and partner for successful outcomes.  Discover how individuals and organizations build a successful team. 

  Creating a Mindset for Service Excellence…  Good is no longer good enough when the best is expected.  Discover the importance of service excellence in today’s healthcare environment and identify strategies that can help you rise to a level of service excellence at your facility. 

Tutorial and Case Academy Online Seminars

  Sealed Container Instructions for Use…Care and handling instructions for sealed container systems.  CD or Video.  Pre-approved CE for 1 contact hour

  The Basics: Decontamination, Packaging, and Sterilization… Three basic programs including, tutorial, glossary and post test.  Pre-approved CE for 1 to 1.5 contact hours.

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  Case Medical Seminars are designed for presentation to your Operating Room and Central Sterile Processing Staff, and affiliated professional healthcare organizations.

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