480 minutes CPD/CE

Description

This playlist will ensure you remain up to date with disinfection and decontamination procedures, taking into account documents such as the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 (the 'Sharps Regulations'), HTM 0105, HTM 070 and Code of Practice.

Disinfection and decontamination. Part 1 - Jo Russell

Aims and objectives:

  • Comprehend the basic requirements for good decontamination practice
  • Treating patients with cold sores
  • Look at pre-sterilisation cleaning and PPE
  • Thinking about sepsis
  • HSE regs on resheathing needles
  • HTM 0701 for waste
  • Revisit hand washing

Disinfection and decontamination. Part 2 - Jo Russell

Aims and objectives:

  • Comprehend the basic requirements for good decontamination practice
  • Treating patients with cold sores
  • Look at pre-sterilisation cleaning and PPE
  • Thinking about sepsis
  • HSE regs on resheathing needles
  • HTM 0701 for waste
  • Revisit hand washing

HSE sharps regulations - Jo Russell

Aims and objectives:

  • Understand your legal obligations under the Health and Safety (Sharp Instruments in Healthcare) Regulations 2013 (the 'Sharps Regulations')
  • Understand the safe handling and disposal of sharps
  • The methods for mitigating risk related to sharps
  • Have knowledge of the Code of Practice and Waste Regulations
  • Understand hand hygiene and its importance for cross infection control

Getting back to it – protocols, PPE and the practicalities - Dr. Dhru Shah

In this video, Dr. Dhru Shah will talk through a risk and protocol assessment document, a series of questions that you can use in your practice, helping you to develop COVID-19 specific protocols. Followed by a respiratory protection team discussing masks and protection.

Aims and objectives:

Gain an overview of the protocols, PPE and the practicalities of getting back to practice, taking into consideration:

  • Unknowns, aerosol generating procedures (AGP), viral load, level of risk
  • Reducing risk and increasing safety
  • Risk and protocol assessment document
  • SARS - H1N1
  • Hazards and risks, research, evidence
  • Respiratory protective equipment, masks vs respirators, filter classification, basic and enhanced PPE
  • Respirators, disposable, reusable, fit testing, fit checking, qualitative, quantitative, ethical considerations, employer, wearer, limitations, donning and doffing
  • Changes in dental practice, non-AGP vs AGP, tele-dentistry, pre-appointment, on arrival, on entry, appointment, downtime

COVID-19. Donning and doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE). Non-aerosol generating procedures (non-AGP) - Public Health England

This video will talk through a risk and protocol assessment document, a series of questions that you can use in your practice, helping you to develop COVID-19 specific protocols. Followed by a respiratory protection team discussing masks and protection.

Aims and objectives:

  • Understand how to safely don (put on) and doff (take off) the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for non-aerosol generating procedures (AGP), specific to COVID-19

This guidance outlines infection control for healthcare providers assessing possible cases of COVID-19

It should be used in conjunction with local policies and with the visual guides found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control

Full written COVID-19 guidance can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control#anchor 

COVID-19. Donning and doffing of personal protective equipment (PPE) for aerosol generating procedures (AGP) - Public Health England

Aims and objectives:

  • Understand how to safely don (put on) the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP) specific to COVID-19

This guidance outlines infection control for healthcare providers assessing possible cases of COVID-19

It should be used in conjunction with local policies and with the visual guides found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control

Full written COVID-19 guidance can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control#anchor

COVID-19. Removal and disposal of personal protective equipment (PPE) for aerosol generating procedures (AGP) - Public Health England

Aims and objectives:

  • Understand how to safely doff (or remove) the Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) for Aerosol Generating Procedures (AGP), specific to COVID-19

This guidance outlines infection control for healthcare providers assessing possible cases of COVID-19

It should be used in conjunction with local policies and with the visual guides found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control

Full written COVID-19 guidance can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/wuhan-novel-coronavirus-infection-prevention-and-control#anchor