Title: Certification & Environmental Issues of the ASC
Presenter: Loie Ruhl, RN, BS, CIC; Infection Preventionist; Barnes Jewish Health System, St. Louis, MO
Description: Loie is an Infection Prevention Specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis Missouri. She graduated with RN 25+ years ago, and then received a Bachelor of Science in Health Care Leadership. Loie was certified in Infection Control in 2005. She possesses a varied medical/surgical nursing background including emergency medicine and trauma. Infection Control became her area of specialty in 2003. Loie has authored and co-authored several abstracts for both APIC and SHEA, and has presented at the National APIC conference in San Jose and Denver, as well as at the Bi-State Infectious Disease Conference in St. Louis and at the Little Rock Chapter of APIC Infectious Disease Conference. She is the co-author of a chapter in the 3rd edition of the SHEA text, “Practical Epidemiology in Healthcare.”
Description: This video recording is one of 14 presentations given at our 2-day September 2012 Infection Prevention Strategies for ASC's conference.
Learning Objectives:
Describes regulations for certification as related to the environment of care in an ambulatory surgery center.
Review possible deficiencies cited for the environment of care in ASCs.
Apply knowledge of certification requirements and potential deficiencies to maintain certification of an ASC.
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