3.03 Understand support services

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2. Aseptic Procedures • Clean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment • Manage Hazardous Materials and Wastes • Manage and Store Materials 3.03 Understand support services

3. Aseptic Procedures • Clean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment • Follow standards precaution guidelines • Implement cleaning methods to prevent the transmission of infectious agents 3.03 Understand support services

4. Aseptic Procedures • Clean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment • Select procedures and precautions to be followed when using chemicals • Integrate all infection control standards with design and construction activities 3.03 Understand support services

5. Aseptic Procedures • Manage Hazardous Materials and Wastes • Monitor a waste management program • Develop procedures that minimize customer cost of supplies, services, and equipment 3.03 Understand support services

6. Aseptic Procedures • Manage Hazardous Materials and Wastes • Ensure that regulated waste is • handled • packaged • stored • disposed of in accordance with federal, state, and local regulations • Maintain appropriate documentation 3.03 Understand support services

7. Aseptic Procedures • Manage and Store Materials • Handle and store sterile and non-sterile items properly • Control inventory and distribution of materials 3.03 Understand support services

8. Aseptic Procedures • Manage and Store Materials • Purchase materials, supplies, and equipment within budget • Monitor materials • distribution • consumption • pilferage • Provide space for storage 3.03 Understand support services

9. Aseptic Procedures Clean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment 3.03 Understand support services

10. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment • Environmental cleaning • method for cleaning low-risk environmental surfaces • walls • floors • bathrooms • involves using appropriate detergents and chemicals • use personal protective equipment 3.03 Understand support services

11. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment 3.03 Understand support services • Pre-cleaning – Don’t delay! • Aims to remove visible soil from: • reusable medical devices • environmental surfaces • medical equipment • Decontamination removes or reduces infectious organisms

12. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment 3.03 Understand support services • Disinfection • Used to decontaminate medical devices that come in contact with mucous membranes, blood and body fluids • Used for heat sensitive items

13. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment • Chemical disinfection • used to disinfect instruments that do not penetrate body tissue • clean to remove particles or debris • follow manufacturer’s directions • may need to use antirust tablets Chemical Disinfectant 3.03 Understand support services

14. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment • Ultrasonic cleaners • remove debris and provide thorough cleaning of stainless steel devices with joints, lumens or other complicated parts that are difficult to clean by other methods • Cavitation– • Process where a bubble in a fluid is forced to fluctuate in size or shape, usually by sound • Picks up and carries contaminated particles away 3.03 Understand support services

15. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment 3.03 Understand support services • Sterilizing with an Autoclave • Autoclave uses steam under pressure or gas to sterilize equipment and supplies • Destroys all microorganisms

16. Aseptic ProceduresClean and Decontaminate the Healthcare Environment 3.03 Understand support services • Sterilizing with an Autoclave • Wrap items prior to sterilization • Autoclave indicators ensure that articles are sterile • Consult manufacture’s guide for • length of time • amount of pressure

17. Aseptic Procedures Principles of Sterile Technique 3.03 Understand support services

18. Aseptic ProceduresPrinciples of Sterile Technique • Surgical Asepsis • Sterile field • Contaminated • Drop technique • Mitten technique • Transfer forceps 3.03 Understand support services

19. Aseptic ProceduresPrinciples of Sterile Technique 3.03 Understand support services • Surgical Asepsis • Procedures that keep an object or area free from living organisms STERILE

20. Aseptic ProceduresPrinciples of Sterile Technique • Sterile field – area that is free from all organisms • 2-inch border of sterile field is considered contaminated • To maintain a sterile field, • never reach across or turn your back on the sterile field • keep the sterile field dry 3.03 Understand support services

21. Aseptic ProceduresPrinciples of Sterile Technique 3.03 Understand support services • Sterile Packages • Check expiration date: do not use if past • Check sterile indicator • Opening Sterile Packages • Touch only the outside of the wrap to • pull the top flap away from you • pull the wrap out to the side, on each side of the package • pull back on the wrap to open the side nearest you

22. Aseptic ProceduresPrinciples of Sterile Technique • Contaminated - organisms are present • Never reach across or turn your back on the sterile field • When in doubt, consider it contaminated! 3.03 Understand support services

23. Aseptic ProceduresPrinciples of Sterile TechniqueAdd an item to the sterile tray • Drop technique • Mitten technique • Transfer forceps 3.03 Understand support services

24. Aseptic ProceduresWrapping Instruments for Autoclave 3.03 Understand support services

25. Aseptic ProceduresDonning and Removing Sterile Gloves 3.03 Understand support services