Seminars
Healthcare Education
STERIS Clinical Education Department Presents:
Issues
in Endoscopy Today
Let STERIS help you refresh your knowledge. We will
review recommended standards and work practices so
that you can review and renew your operations to
ensure quality performance standards in your department.
This comprehensive seminar will provide a valuable
forum for essential endoscopy education. Using examples
from
everyday practice and reference to various established recommended practices
and guidelines, this program discusses decontamination, safe handling
and leak testing, high level disinfection and sterilization, equipment
damage control, the hazards encountered in the endoscopy environment,
moderate sedation, as well as planning an endoscopy environment. NEW
topics this year include a review of the SGNA, AORN, and APIC standards
that apply to endoscopy and decontamination in this environment.
This program encourages open discussion and sharing
of problems, experiences, and solutions. It has been
very well received for the past six years by endoscopy
professionals from all over the country because it
presents important issues that you face everyday.
Previous participants have told us that they leave
the program armed with essential information that
will help them assess their practice setting and
improve it if necessary. On the other hand, this
experience may very well reaffirm your department’s
excellent standards and work practices.
Who should attend: Healthcare professionals who
have responsibility for endoscopic procedures and
equipment processing in the Endoscopy Suite, Surgery
Department, Ambulatory Care Facilities, Infection
Prevention, Central Service, etc.
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here to view current seminar brochure.
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Recommended
Practices and Current Issues in Central Service and
the Surgical Suite
Let STERIS help you refresh your knowledge of important
details that will enhance your professional practice
abilities. We will review recommended standards and
work practices so that you can review and renew your
operations to ensure quality performance standards
in your department.
This primary education experience is necessary for
those who are building, enriching, or verifying their
skills for efficient and effective decontamination,
preparation, sterilization, and sterility maintenance
of medical devices, equipment, and supplies. This
program also addresses workplace hazards, current
events, becoming an effective change agent, CS competencies,
and certification requirements. “Designing
a Central Services Department” will help you
with equipment and space planning ideas for renovation
or new construction. FOUR NEW TOPICS have been added
to the agenda – hand hygiene, cleaning chemistries,
becoming an effective agent for change, and how to
become an award-winning Central Service department.
The program encourages open discussion and the sharing
of common problems, experiences, and solutions, using
examples from everyday work settings. The participants
leave this seminar, year after year, armed with current
technical information, and energized to scrutinize
their department work practices and influence change
as necessary. They walk away knowing the questions
to ask, the basic principles of processing, and what
references to use to reinforce their suggestions,
recommendations, and requirements to others. Become
one of the thousands of professionals who have benefited
from this program over the past 40 years.
Who should attend: Healthcare professionals who
have responsibility for handling, transporting, decontaminating,
preparing, sterilizing, storing, and distributing
medical devices, patient care equipment, and supplies.
This includes registered nurses, licensed practical
or vocational nurses, surgical technologists, Central
Service managers, and technicians.
Representatives from the following departments typically attend this
seminar: Central Service, Operating Room, Ambulatory Surgery, Materials
Management, Infection Prevention, Obstetrics, Alternative Care Centers,
Education, etc.
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here to view current seminar brochure.
(Adobe Acrobat Required)
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