CHEST Learning Objectives: Module 4

Occupied Patient Room: Part I

• List the differences between cleaning and disinfecting solutions, common examples of each, and how each is used.

• Determine the right cleaning solutions, tools, and techniques for different patient settings and surfaces.

• Explain how to clean a standard bed.

• Determine the right cleaning solutions, tools, and techniques for the bathroom.

• Identify how to properly handle and remove waste from a patient room.

• Select the right floor cleaning solution and tools based on the situation — mopping or vacuuming.

• Properly don and doff personal protective equipment (PPE).

• Explain how to handle clean and dirty linen.

• Recognize key principles of infection prevention and control.

• Recognize a health care environmental services technician’s critical role in infection prevention and control as a part of the patient care team.

• Recognize how to keep patients safe.