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It’s a Broken Record: Achieving Compliance with Infection Control Record Keeping
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM EDT
Category: Webinar

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Assurance of sterility is important to ensure patient safety. However, compliance challenges with infection control record keeping exist for dental practices. In this webinar, we will discuss the importance of proper infection control record keeping solutions and guidelines to help you achieve compliance. This webinar will discuss OSHA standards, AAMI/ANSI recommendations, and CDC infection control guidelines focusing on record keeping in sterilization. A variety of technologies will be discussed to aid dental practices with proper record keeping tasks. Documentation and traceability solutions with infection control processes help meet regulatory requirements. The types and recommended frequency of record keeping will be discussed. This webinar offers timely education as well as helpful suggestions and resources to empower participants to assess their level of compliance and make any necessary updates to their own office policies, procedures, and technology.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  1. Identify common infection control record keeping errors.
  2. Discuss solutions for proper infection control record-keeping.
  3. Discuss current CDC Guidance and regulatory requirements from AAMI/ANSI and OSHA related to sterilization validation, testing, and record keeping to prevent compliance errors.

SPEAKER

Kandis Garland, RDH, MS, CDIPC

Ms. Garland is an educator, author, and speaker. Her career spans 22 years as a dental hygienist and educator where she currently serves as Clinic Lead Instructor, and QA/Infection Control Officer at the Oregon Institute of Technology. Ms. Garland’s research focuses on infection control and dental hygiene competency and has been published in the Journal of Dental Hygiene, the Journal of Dental Education, Dimensions of Dental Hygiene, Mentor Magazine, Decisions in Dentistry, and Access Magazine. Garland is an active member of the Organization for Safety, Asepsis and Prevention and Dimensions of Dental Hygiene’s Peer Review Panel. She received the OSAP Emerging Leader Award in 2017. She is a member of the Crosstex Luminary Council, provides infection control consulting services, and serves as an educational consultant for Tuttnauer. In February 2023, Kandis was recognized by Dimensions of Dental Hygiene as “One of the Six Dental Hygienists You Want to Know.” 

Educational Funding Provided By:

Tuttnauer USA


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