The everyday clinical management of infection prevention and sterilisation involves a combination of protocols, procedures, and ongoing vigilance to ensure the safety of both patients and staff.
Key Learning Objectives:
- Compliance and Regulatory
- Standard Precautions
- Hand hygiene – protect patients, protect yourself.
- Personal hygiene and Personal protective equipment requirements and use.
- Surface management protocols – clinical contact surfaces and general environment.
- Improving workflow in instrument reprocessing and patient changeover.
- Sterilisation – packaging, loading, monitoring requirements and recording the process.
- Quality management and validation – equipment and the overall sterilisation process.