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Prevention and Management of Accidents caused by Sharp Objects
- Assessment your facility’s sharps injury prevention program
- Facts, Legal Concerns & Care
- Development and implementation of your planning and prevention activities
- Implementation of your prevention interventions
- Safer Sharps Devices
- Safe Work Practices
- Needle sticks & Disposal of Needles
- Implementation of your post exposure prophylaxis (PEP) management interventions
- Reporting sharps injuries
- Healthcare Personnel Safety Reporting Plan
- Evaluation of the impact of your prevention interventions
Overview of the webinar
Occupational exposure to blood-borne pathogens from needle sticks and other sharps injuries is a serious problem, but it is often preventable. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that each year 385,000 needle sticks and other sharps related injuries are sustained by hospital-based healthcare personnel. Similar injuries occur in other healthcare settings, such as nursing homes, clinics, emergency care services and private homes. Sharps injuries are primarily associated with occupational transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), but they may be implicated in the transmission of more than 20 other pathogens.
Who should attend?
All Health Care Personnel, including
- Emergency care providers
- Laboratory personnel
- Autopsy personnel
- Hospital employees
- Interns
- Medical students
- Nursing staff and students
- Physicians
- Surgeons
- Dentists
- Labor and delivery room personnel
- Laboratory technicians
- Health facility sanitary staff
- Clinical waste handlers
- Health care professionals at all levels Who are at risk
- Hospitals & Healthcare Personnel
- Pharmaceuticals, Biotech, Medical Device Personnel dealing with patients
- Regulatory personnel e.g. FDA, HHS, OSHA etc
Why should you attend?
This webinar will teach you the risks with sharps injuries and how to prevent and manage sharps injuries. This sharps presentation provides the preoperative educator, manager and staff RN with a complete presentation to educate healthcare team members on the importance of sharps safety in the healthcare setting. This presentation emphasizes the techniques to prevent sharps injury in the healthcare setting and can also be modified to meet the needs of the individual work setting.
The objectives of this webinar are as follows:
- Identify the risks of blood-borne pathogen exposure
- Discuss the Legal issues associated with this
- Discuss the current status of multidisciplinary sharps safety initiatives
- Discuss the components of a sharps safety program
- Describe barriers to change
- Assist you in defining & Implementing your own sharps safety program
Faculty - Mz.Angela Bazigos
Angela Bazigos, is the CEO of Touchstone Technologies, Inc. She has 40 years of experience working in hospitals and Pharma industry. Her background includes companies like Roche, Novartis, Genentech and PricewaterhouseCoopers in GLP, GCP, GMP, Medical Device and Data Integrity Roles. She has held positions such as Chief Compliance Officer, QA Director and has acted on behalf CEO for communications with FDA.
Ms. Bazigos is a Past President of PRCSQA, a member of the SQA CVIC, ASQ, DIA and RAPS. She works closely with the FDA on behalf of her clients. She consults to Life Science Investment Groups as well as to Pharma / Biotech / Medical Device companies on compliance matters, including strategy, submissions, quality assurance and remediation following action by the FDA. Has contributed to prototyping of 21 CFR 11 & CSV before promulgation to industry.
Ms. Bazigos co-authored Computerized Systems in Clinical Research / Current Data Quality and Data Integrity Concepts with FDA, DIA and Academia. She holds a patent in speeding up software validation. She has been on the board for UC Berkeley’s Business School for Executive Education in Life Sciences and is now on the Stanford Who’s Who Registry for contributions to the Life Sciences industry.