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Sterile Processing Essentials: Decontamination to Sterile Storage

The department every surgical service depends on, and almost nobody trains.

professional240 min6 lessons
Sterile Processing Essentials: Decontamination to Sterile Storage

What you'll learn

  • Sequence the reprocessing workflow for a described instrument set
  • Identify a breach of the clean-dirty boundary in a described department
  • Select an appropriate sterilisation method for a described item
  • Interpret monitoring results and make a load release decision
  • Evaluate a sterile storage area against event-related sterility principles
  • Apply recall procedure to a described failed indicator

Course content

6 modules · 6 lessons

1. Instruments and Point of Use
  • Instruments and Point of UsePreview40m
2. Decontamination
  • Decontamination40m
3. Inspection, Assembly and Packaging
  • Inspection, Assembly and Packaging40m
4. Sterilisation Methods
  • Sterilisation Methods40m
5. Monitoring and Load Release
  • Monitoring and Load Release40m
6. Storage, Tracking and Recall
  • Storage, Tracking and Recall40m