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From Policy to Practice: OSAP's Guide to the CDC Guidelines (2019 Edition)

From Policy to Practice: OSAP's Guide to the CDC Guidelines (2019 Edition)

This comprehensive workbook reflects both the recommendations from the CDC Guidelines for Infection Control in Dental Health-Care Settings-2003 and the 2016 Summary of Infection Prevention Practices in Dental Settings: Basic Expectations for Safe Care. Although the CDC guidelines are comprehensive, they describe only what dental health care personnel (DHCP) should do, not how they should do it. This workbook will help you understand and implement the CDC guidelines into practice in your own setting.

Each chapter of the workbook contains practical, how-to instructions, charts and checklists, pictures and captions, answers to common questions, and guidance for making sound clinical judgments.

Preview the first chapter here.

Learning Objectives

  1. Apply CDC dental infection prevention and control guidelines in site-specific dental healthcare setting
  2. Describe prevention activities related to specific dental infection prevention and control recommendations
  3. Describe how microorganisms may be spread in a dental healthcare setting.

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Assessment

After a complete review of the workbook, you are eligible to take an online assessment to earn ten (10) hours of continuing education (CE) credit. The inside cover of each workbook contains instructions on how to access the assessment, utilizing a unique access code.

You will have two attempts to pass the assessment with a 70%. You will receive your pass or fail result immediately after completing the assessment. After taking the assessment your score and documentation of completion will be emailed to the valid email address you provided at the beginning of the assessment.

Note: You can only successfully complete the assessment once. You may not repeat it in a subsequent year for additional CE credits.

Successful completion of the workbook and assessment counts toward the education requirements for two certifications:

  • Certified in Dental Infection Prevention and Control® (CDIPC®) - A clinically focused professional certification
  • Dental Industry Specialist in Infection Prevention and Control® (DISIPC®) - An industry (dental trade)-focused professional certification

To learn more visit: dentalinfectioncontrol.org/certification/

Course Details

Educational Method: Self-paced, Self-Instruction
Course Type: Print publication
CE Credits: 10
Estimated time to review workbook: 10 hours
Post-course assessment:  80 questions
Compatibility:  Workbook (hard-copy), Assessment (Desktop, laptop, and tablet)
IBSN-13: 978-0-9752519-2-8

Course Credentials

Original Release Date: June 2004
Review Date:  August 2019
Expiration Date: August 2022

  

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Please email the OSAP office at [email protected] or call (410) 571-0003 if you wish to be in contact with the course author/creator(s) with any questions or for clarification of course concepts.

Recognition Term: 11/01/2020 - 06/30/2025

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Provider ID #: RP4067
Valid Until: 02/28/2023

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Provider ID #: IC061
Valid Until: 02/28/2024

Disclosure

All participating authors are expected to disclose to the audience any significant financial interest or other relationship with:
  • the manufacturer of any commercial products and/or provider of commercial services discussed in an educational activity and
  • any commercial supporters of the activity.

2019 Content Review Team

Kathy J. Eklund, RDH, MHP
Director of Occupational Health and Safety
The Forsyth Institute
Disclosures: Other Financial or Material Support - Royalties OSHA & CDC Guidelines: OSAP Interact Training System

Shellie Kolavic Gray, DMD, MPH
Consultant- Atlanta, GA

Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Ashley MacDermott, MPH, CHES
Director of Education
Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention (OSAP)
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

Chris H. Miller, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Microbiology
Executive Associate Dean Emeritus
Associate Dean Emeritus for Academic Affairs and for Graduate Education
Indiana University School of Dentistry
Disclosures: No relevant financial relationships to disclose

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