SPICE North Carolina Infection Control Course: Outpatient Healthcare Setting
January 24, 2025
8:40 AM – 3:45 PM
This approved infection control curriculum developed by SPICE prepares designated healthcare providers to ensure and systematically assess that their facility has the appropriate infection prevention policies and procedures in place to allow healthcare personnel to provide safe patient care consistent with the NC communicable disease rule .0206.
Objectives
- Discuss North Carolina state laws governing infection prevention in healthcare facilities.
- Describe control measures for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C (10 A NCAC 41A .0202, .0203, and .0214.
- Review the importance of communicable disease reporting.
- Describe NC medical waste rules.
- Discuss bloodborne pathogen risks and other measures used for control of bloodborne pathogens.
- Review the Exposure Control Plan requirements.
- Discuss OSHA’s definition of regulated medical waste.
- Discuss best practices for safe injections and the consequences of unsafe injection practices.
- Discuss the One and Only Campaign to eliminate unsafe medical injections.
- Describe the best practices, principles and hand hygiene in asepsis.
- Explain the role of the environment in disease transmission.
- Discuss principals of disinfection and sterilization for medical devices used in outpatient facilities.
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