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.
www.casemed.com
Case Medical Seminars are
designed for presentation to your Operating Room and Central Sterile Processing
Staff, and affiliated professional healthcare organizations.
Contact us at 65
Railroad Avenue, Ridgefield, NJ 07657. Phone: 201-313-1999, 888-227-2273
or contact our educational coordinator, Arlene Carlo, by e-mail acarlo@casemed.com
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