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Title: Reducing Sharps Injuries: Where We Are and Where We Need to Be |
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Originally Recorded: April 2008 |
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Length of Presentation: Approximately 60 minutes |
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SPECIAL INTRODUCTORY PRICE $125.00!
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About This Webinar: OSHA's Revised Bloodborne Pathogens Standard of 2001 reduced the number of occupational sharps injuries to healthcare professionals by mandating using safer needle devices.
Did you know? The CDC declared a healthcare safety challenge to eliminate occupational needlestick injuries by 2010!
How will your laboratory achieve this critically important goal?
This webinar offers the latest information related to sharps safety, including national trends and benchmarking on needlestick injuries so you can evaluate your organization's sharps safety program. Discover what statistics are used to benchmark and monitor needlestick injuries and what types of data are important to analyze the cause of injuries to better choose reduction strategies. Learn which types of sharps are most problem prone, and whether the various safety-engineered sharps devices and other work practice strategies reduce occupational sharps injuries.
Learning Objectives: At the end of this webinar you will be able to:
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Describe practical approaches to monitoring and analyzing occupational needlestick injuries.
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Describe how to recognize "preventable" needlestick injuries and identify methods to reduce these injuries.
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Describe barriers and drivers in safer sharps device identification, selection, and implementation.
Level of Instruction: Basic
Suggested Audience: Lab directors, lab managers, technologists, phlebotomists, laboratory safety, infection control, and IVD industry representatives
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Keynote Speaker / Author: Mary Hotaling, MS, MT(ASCP) DLM
Professor Mary Hotaling, MS, MT(ASCP) DLM, has over 20 years of experience as a clinical laboratory scientist with more than half of her career focused in laboratory administration. For the past ten years, Professor Hotaling has been a full-time clinical assistant professor in the Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences at Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, New York. Prior to becoming an educator, Mary was a laboratory administrative director and a CLIA laboratory surveyor. She also serves as laboratory safety officer for Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center in West Islip, New York. Professor Hotaling is a keynote speaker for industry organizations including CLMA, ASCP, and AACC, as well as a published author and consultant. |
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