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Healthcare Hygiene magazine partnered with the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association (HSPA) to develop a three-day virtual symposium that explored imperatives relating to the needs of the sterile processing department, collaboration with infection prevention and control stakeholders, and communication with the hospital C-suite leadership.
This symposium, held Oct. 11-13, 2022 during Sterile Processing Week, offers 6 FREE contact hours of continuing education* for sterile processing professionals, nurses and other healthcare practitioners. This virtual symposium sessions will be available on demand here through Spring 2023.
* Healthcare Hygiene magazine/Keystone Media Inc. is an approved provider #17500 of the California Board of Registered Nurses.
The sessions:
Sessions will address some of the most timely issues facing the SPD, including:
• Leveraging the power of education and working with hospital leadership to improve sterile processing departments (SPDs)
• Addressing SPD knowledge and skills gaps through education and training
• Joint Commission and AAMI standards; how TJC surveyors interpret the standards, including those under the new ST91: 2021, during site visits and ensure the standards and best practices are being consistently followed
• Identifying SPD needs through infection prevention and control risk assessment processes
• Occupational exposure risks in the SPD, including ground-breaking research on splashes and droplet dispersal in sterile processing areas, plus new recommendations for visual inspection of flexible endoscopes
• Exploring the many ways sterile professionals impact lives every day
The agenda:
Day 1: Tuesday, Oct. 11
11 a.m. -11:15 a.m. ET
HSPA president Marjorie Wall's welcome
11:15 a.m. -12:30 p.m. ET
Session 1: Leveraging the Power of Education and Working With Hospital Leadership to Improve SPDs
12:30 p.m.-1:30 p.m. ET
Session 2: Education: Your Greatest Tool
Day 2: Wednesday, Oct. 12
11 a.m. -12 p.m. ET
Session 3: The Joint Commission Survey Process
12:15 p.m.-1:15 p.m. ET
Session 4: Celebrating the Infection Prevention & Sterile Processing Partnership
Day 3: Thursday, Oct. 13
11 a.m. -12 p.m. ET
Session 5: Elevating Skills and Safety for Sterile Processing Personnel
12 p.m.-1:15 p.m. ET
Session 6: As a Sterile Processing Professional, What Do YOU Bring to the Table?
The presenters:
Cori Ofstead, Ofstead & Associates. Inc.
Sylvia Garcia, The Joint Commission
Natalie Lind, Healthcare Sterile Processing Association
Monique Jelks, The Resource Group/Ascension Health
Anthony Bondon, HSHS St. Johns Hospital
Jill Holdsworth, Emory University Hospital Midtown
Sharon Greene-Golden, Adventist Healthcare Shady Grove Medical Center
PLUS: C-Suite Executives Discuss Sterile Processing Challenges and Opportunities
In this conversation, Damien Berg, vice president of strategic initiatives for HSPA, speaks with UC Health executives Ryan Rohman, chief operating officer of University of Colorado Health Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins and Loveland-based UCHealth Medical Center of the Rockies, and Ashley Bruning, UCHealth Poudre Valley Hospital chief nursing officer.
This presentation will be available throughout the three-day event.
Special thanks to our partner:
