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CHEST Learning Objectives: Module 4


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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.


     

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