2011-2012 CONTINUING EDUCATION COURSES:
These Continuing Education contact hours are made available through an unrestricted educational grant from Byrne Medical. Please contact your sales representative or use our Continuing Education Request Form to schedule a Continuing Education Course at your facility.
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“What Can You Do to Stop Cross Contamination”
Sue Potter, MSN, MBA-HCM, RN, CGRN
0.9 Contact Hours
The above CE allows the learner to take a look at his/her lab and identify often overlooked modes of cross contamination. The CE covers Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, water born bacteria that can be found in tap water and is the most common cause of AER contamination. The treatment is meticulous pre-cleaning with proper brushing. -
“Disinfecting Clostridium Difficile”
Dan Klein and Anthony Dallmier, Ph.D.
0.8 Contact Hours
Cleaning without subsequent disinfection/sterilization is not effective at killing Clostridium Difficile spores on endoscopes. You must clean and disinfect/sterilize according to the endoscope manufacturers directions to be effective against Clostridium Difficile. -
“Infection Control in Endoscopy: Let’s Tell a Story”
Donna E. Girard RN, BSN, CGRN
0.8 Contact Hours
The learner is taken through SGNA standards in infection control with special emphasis on reprocessing of flexible endoscopes. Some other topics covered in this link are Spaulding classification, quality assurance, quality control program documentation and standard precautions. -
“An Infection Control Update: GI Endoscopes and the Risk of Transmission of Biofilms, Clostridium Difficile and Other Epidemiologically Important Infectious Agents”
Lawrence F. Muscarella, Ph.D.
1.8 Contact Hours
The properties of biofilms and how they form and adhere to endoscopes is covered in the program. The review of epidemiology of Clostridium Difficile and Multidrug Resistant Organisms also known as MDRO’s, Standard precautions and three primary modes of disease transmission (contact, large-particle and airborne) and transmission-based precautions. -
“Commitment to Safety: Protecting Patients from Clostridium Difficile During Endoscopy”
Paulette Smith, RN, BSN, CGRN
1.0 Contact Hours
Learn the risk factors for the development of Clostridium Difficile associated disease, how to effectively stop cross-infection with high-level disinfection, and proper surface cleaning after GI procedures. -
“Endoscope Cleaning Verification Test Study”
Natalie Whitfield, PhD
Stephen M. Kovach, BS
1.0 Contact Hours
The history and challenges of cleaning a flexible endoscope and why end-users need effective surveillance of presumptively cleaned endoscopes. A study will be reviewed and results discussed. -
“Infection Control: What Role Does the Technician Play?”
Kimberly Richardson, GTS
Cynthia Edgelow, MSN, RN, CGRN
1.25 Contact Hours
Learn the role of the GI technician in attempting to decrease infections, current approaches to avoiding hospital-acquired infections using evidence-based practice and the role of personal protective equipment. -
“Prevention and Control of Infections Associated with Endoscopy”
Beverly Burt, BSN, RN, CIC
1.0 Contact Hours
Learn the symptoms, clinical manifestations and epidemiology of Clostridium Difficile, Hepatitis B and C in addition to ways which healthcare associated infections and pathogens are transmitted and prevented.