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Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) 3.0 Course

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What you'll learn

Overview of CHEST
What are environmental services (EVS)?
Why is CHEST important in patient care?
Foundational infection prevention strategies
What are proper hand hygiene techniques?
What are the strategies for preventing HAIs?
What are standard precautions?
What are transmission-based precautions?
How can providers engage with patients?
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
How can providers prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections?
How do you insert indwelling urinary catheters?
MRSA bacterium
How can providers assess for risk of MRSA infection?
How can providers identify MRSA?
C.difficile infection
What is C.difficile?
How does C.difficile spread?
Setting up medical carts
What cleaning supplies should be used?
Environmental cleaning procedures
How can facilities maintain environmental cleaning?
How should general patient areas be cleaned?
How should spills of blood be cleaned?
How should specialized patient areas be cleaned?
How should inpatient wards be cleaned?
What are the routine cleaning procedures for occupied patient rooms?
Isolation rooms checklist
How can providers monitor isolation rooms?

Skills covered in this course

CHEST 3.0 Course CHEST Course Healthcare Environmental Services Technician Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician become a Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician

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The following Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) Course is designed to educate environmental services frontline workers and supervisors on how to prevent Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs). Once completed, you will receive a certificate of completion to verify you have finished the training. 

Course length: 1 hour 30 minutes
CEU: 1.5

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What you will learn:

Overview of CHEST
What are environmental services (EVS)?
Why is CHEST important in patient care?
Foundational infection prevention strategies
What are proper hand hygiene techniques?
What are the strategies for preventing HAIs?
What are standard precautions?
What are transmission-based precautions?
How can providers engage with patients?
Catheter-associated urinary tract infections
How can providers prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections?
How do you insert indwelling urinary catheters?

MRSA bacterium
How can providers assess for risk of MRSA infection?
How can providers identify MRSA?

C.difficile infection
What is C.difficile?
How does C.difficile spread?
Setting up medical carts
What cleaning supplies should be used?
Environmental cleaning procedures
How can facilities maintain environmental cleaning?
How should general patient areas be cleaned?
How should spills of blood be cleaned?
How should specialized patient areas be cleaned?
How should inpatient wards be cleaned?
What are the routine cleaning procedures for occupied patient rooms?
Isolation rooms checklist
How can providers monitor isolation rooms?

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American Medical Compliance

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The following training modules are designed to educate Healthcare Providers (HCP) how to protect yourself/patients and mitigate community transmission of diseases like COVID-19 in the United States. Once completed, you will receive a certificate of completion to verify you have finished the training.

We are committed to Healthcare industry in offering compliance solutions specializing in all aspects of Infection Control, OSHA, HIPAA, and HR management systems. Healthcare compliance is Federally and State mandated and can be a time consuming, complicated burden on management and staff. Our compliance experts have developed state of the art training modules that are user-friendly and interactive. 
Our state of the art online compliance center assures proper training and annual certifications for employees.

We will keep you HIPAA compliant and help you choose the HR solutions that make sense for your facility.
The information in these trainings were obtained in cooperation with the CDC, ATSDR, HHS and WHO and this does not imply endorsement or recommendation.


Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) 3.0 Course

Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) 3.0
Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) 3.0
The following Certified Healthcare Environmental Services Technician (CHEST) course is designed to educate environmental services frontline workers and supervisors on how to prevent Healthcare Associated Infections (HAIs). Once completed, you will receive a certificate of completion to verify you have finished the training. 

Course length: 1 hour 30 minutes
CEU: 1.5