IPC & Waste Management | Samantha Paterson | Friday 07 February 2025

For: Nurses,

Infection control and waste management update

Aims

• Recognise current guidelines and requirements (HTM01-05)
• Health and Social care approved code of practice
• Understand relevant infection control policies , processes, protocols and audits that are required
• Refresh individuals knowledge of infection prevention and control

Objectives

• Understand what an infection is, what an infectious organisms
• Routes of transmission
• Understand the chain of infection and how the use of standard precautions helps to break the chain of infection
• How to apply standard precautions to your work environment
• We will also do some practical tasks
• Understand the updates to waste management
• How we can become more environmental friendly by 2030

Speakers

Samantha Paterson

Having been in the world of dentistry for over 30 years, working my way up from a trainee nurse at the age of 16 to operations Mananger, working in general Practice throughout the pandemic, I know from experince what practices face on a daily basis. As your Practice Support Consultant I am here to offer you and your team support, with Compliance, Regulations, Inspections and Training, At DD we have a weath of experince and knowledge to make your journey as stress free as possible.

I hope to meet you all very soon.

Sessions

08:45 - 11:00, session 1

11:30 - 13:00, session 2

GDC outcomes

C, D,