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Approximate completion time: 65 minutes
Original webinar date: August 25, 2022
Pennsylvania nursing continuing education credits: 1 hour
Objectives:
- List potential endoscope reprocessing and storage failures
- Describe a tertiary care facility’s surveillance strategies to assess bacterial bioburden and process improvement efforts
- Describe recommendations and strategies to measure the effectiveness of endoscope reprocessing and internal-level benchmarking
Speakers:
Christine Bingman, DNP, RN, Infection Preventionist Patient Safety Authority
Christine Bingman is an infection preventionist for the Patient Safety Authority. In this role, she is responsible for education and outreach for infection preventionists at all levels of healthcare. Christine has clinical infection prevention experience as an infection preventionist and a manager of infection prevention for a large health system, as well as a director of infection prevention in acute care, behavioral health, long-term care, hospital-based clinics, ambulatory surgical sites, and long-term acute care facilities. Christine graduated with honors from Duquesne University with a Bachelor of Science in nursing. She earned a Master of Science in nursing from Chatham University followed by a doctor of nursing practice with a focus in leadership, environmental safety, and epidemiology. She is board-certified in infection control and epidemiology (CIC) and an active member of the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) nationally and through her local Northwestern Pennsylvania chapter.
Mohamed H. Yassin, MD, PhD Chief, Infectious Diseases, UPMC Mercy
Mohamed H Yassin, MD, PhD, CIC is an Associate professor of Medicine and Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He has been in the role of medical director of Infection Prevention and hospital epidemiologist for over 10 years. He has over 50 publications and 100 scientific abstracts. He has particular interest in endoscopic disinfection. He had an oral abstract in APIC’s 2022 Annual Conference on borescope examination and microbiologic culture that won the William A. Rutala award for best abstract. Dr. Yassin has won multiple teaching awards and has been an invited speaker for multiple national and international scientific meetings.