This week on The Official OSAP Podcast Michelle Lee is joined by Patty Montgomery MPH, RN, CIC. Patty is a Registered Nurse with many years’ experience working in critical care and surgical services at a level one trauma center in Seattle Washington. She began her career in Infection Prevention in 2011 by implementing an infection prevention and employee health program in a group of nine outpatient clinics. She earned her Master’s degree in Public Health in 2016 from the University of Washington. In 2015, Patty joined the Healthcare Associated Infections team at the Washington State Department of Health where she led the Infection Control Assessment and Response (ICAR) program and where she continues to lead infection prevention outreach efforts helping facilities and local health jurisdictions to evaluate and respond to breaches in infection control. Today Patty and Michelle discuss how to handle a breach!
Episode Highlights
- Self clinic assessment
- Breaches highlighted
- Ways breaches are identified
- Steps that happen after a breach occurs
Quotes
“They need to be autoclaved because you are injecting with that, and there is a potential for blood exposure”
“Anything that can be sterilized… should be sterilized”
“Don’t cut corners by using high level disinfectant or using cold sterile when you can autoclave the instrument”
“I’ve never seen so many people taking photos of the slides, and looking at each other like ‘oh my goodness… we don’t do this’”
“Once a breach happens, that responsibility of what that clinic needs to do, is a lot”
“You have to prove that no one in your clinic at that time had hepatitis or any of the blood borne pathogens like HIV to say your risk is zero”
“People almost faint when I tell them that they need to document the time, temperature of every load in their autoclave”
“If we take time to do this correct, we don’t need to worry about anything else”
“I go to a lot of conferences, but OSAP is one of the best conferences”
Links
The Dental Podcast Network Channel One homepage:
http://dentalpodcastnetworkchannelone.otcpn.libsynpro.com/
The Dental Podcast Network Channel Two homepage:
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-dental-podcast-networks-channel-two/id1478530429
OSAP’s homepage:
Michelle Lee’s email:
mlee@osap.org
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