E-Learning IPAC Modules – the importance of role specific training
Environmental Services (EVS) professionals are one of the fundamental cornerstones of infection prevention, and a key player for patient safety in health care facilities. Their role is critical to a health care facility’s success by securing a safe environment for hospital staff, patients and visitors. Long Term Care facilities are under accumulative pressure to upgrade staff development opportunities and evaluate their annual staff education. This pressure stems from the need for facilities to implement, monitor, and track staff competency training – as required by law. Staffing shortages merged with many modifications that commonly occur in the senior living industry add to education pressures. Accordingly, the need to train and develop all staff working in the home in all different positions, can limit attention to staff development opportunities.
Does your staff get role specific training? Because they SHOULD!
Our team of experts at IPAC Consulting have worked tirelessly to create a solid foundation of everything YOU and YOUR staff need to know about Environmental Cleaning and Disinfection. As health care organizations better understand the role EVS departments play in maintaining a safe and clean facility, the department’s responsibilities continue to evolve by adopting new strategies and implementing best practices to reduce health care-associated infections.
These behind-the-scenes heroes are responsible for securing operational excellence and are strong contributors to hygiene compliance in hospitals. EVS workers, sometimes called EVS technicians, are highly trained non-clinical healthcare staff that ensure a safe environment for everyone within a healthcare facility. EVS technicians work closely with clinical staff, and frequently interact with residents. In fact, because of their proximity to both these groups as they clean resident rooms, support service staff like EVS workers heavily influence the overall healthcare experience, safety and patients’ likelihood to recommend a healthcare facility.
One of the reasons for the heightened attention on EVS is the increased understanding of the department’s role in infection prevention. As entire healthcare organizations face the challenge of an unprecedented pandemic, EVS departments are called upon to ensure greater efforts are employed to combat the spread of disease and infection. Exposure to HAIs can sprout illness and expedite the spread of disease among patients and health care staff. EVS technicians are the first line of defense in preventing an outbreak and helping to reduce the risk of these HAIs by ensuring a clean and safe health care environment is in place. With this in mind, it is essential that EVS departments are prepared with proper training and effective tools to carry out their roles.
Our Environmental Service Modules consist of 14 modules that you can build upon and are overflowing with current/existing literature and best practice recommendations to make your home and your staff the best it can possibly be!
Let us take care of ALL your departmental role specific training and get everyone up to speed with the relevant and necessary information that will increase resident satisfaction and confidence within the work environment.
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