Day 1
I session - 90 minutes
- Open training and pre-test
- Prevalence of Healthcare Associated Infections (HAI) - World and Georgian data;
- HAI spread factors, infection transmission chain;
- HAI registration, notification;
- Standard definition, accounting-notification rule, journal production rule;
- Antimicrobial prophylaxis and therapy, the procedure for drawing up a program of antimicrobial drugs
- Infection prevention and control program, its preparation procedure.
Coffee break
II session - 90 minutes
- Hand hygiene - the essence of a multimodal strategy;
- 5 moments of hand hygiene;
- Hand hygiene technique, practical exercise;
- Methods of observation of hand hygiene, WHO control sheet, analysis of results;
- Review of hand antiseptics;
- Basic principles of safe injection:
- Rules for handling injectable material;
- Rules for handling medicines.
- Cross-distribution of microorganisms by hand - video
III session - 30 minutes
- Standard safety measures in a dental facility, characterization and importance;
- Characterization of security measures based on transmission routes and their importance
IV session - 35 minutes
- General rules for the use of personal protective equipment (PPE), selection criteria;
- Practical exercise:
- The rule of removing disposable gloves;
- How to fit and remove a surgical mask;
- How to fit and remove a respirator;
- The procedure for processing and storing headlamps and glasses;
Day 2
V session - 60 minutes
- Personnel safety;
- Damage management;
- Post-exposure prophylaxis:
- At the risk of developing hepatitis B;
- At the risk of developing hepatitis C;
- At the risk of developing HIV infection;
- Mandatory immunization of medical staff, epidemic immunization
Coffee break
VI session - 60 minutes
- Disinfection of dental medical devices, objects, instruments, high-level disinfection and general rules of sterilization, zoning of decontamination space;
- Stages of pre-sterilization processing;
- Disinfection levels;
- Spaulding classification;
- Drying, packing;
- Sterilization methods;
- Rules for storing processed medical items;
- The procedure for cleaning the aspiration system of the dental chair;
- Specifications of disinfectants;
- Storage conditions for sterile instruments.
VII session - 65 minutes
- Waste management of a medical institution providing dental services - legal requirements;
- Classification, segregation, color marking of containers, labeling, practical demonstration of waste generated in a medical institution;
- Recyclable waste, waste prevention;
- Mixed waste management;
- Temporary storage and transportation, electronic reporting and journal production procedure;
- Importance of waste plan and disposal plan-schedule;
- Management of various categories of liquid waste spills;
- Incineration of hazardous waste;
- The role of the environmental manager.
VIII session - 60 minutes
- The importance of cleaning the environment of a medical institution providing dental services, general rules;
- Major pollutants, cross-contamination;
- Cleaning methodology, color marking principles;
- Cleaning frequently touched surfaces;
- The order of arranging the sanitary space, the specifications of the inventory to be sorted;
- Chemical means for sorting;
- Monitoring of the sorting process, cleaning accounting.
Post-test and training summary.