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CE Hours
3.00
CE Units
0.300
Activity Type
- Knowledge
Target Audience(s)
- Pharmacists
- Pharmacy Technicians
Accreditation(s)
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The Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Puerto Rico is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education.
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Objectives
- Recognize the benefit to patients and healthcare workers of adhering to scientifically accepted principles and practices of infection prevention and control.
- Recognize non-specific disease findings that should prompt evaluation of healthcare workers.
- List strategies for preventing transmission of pathogenic organisms (HIV, HCV, HBV, TB).
- Describe specific measures to prevent transmission of bloodborne pathogens from patient to patient, healthcare worker to patient, and patient to healthcare worker.
- Describe the circumstances that require the use of barriers and personal protective equipment to prevent patient or healthcare worker contact with potentially infectious material.
- Identify occupational health strategies for preventing transmission of bloodborne pathogens and other communicable diseases in healthcare workers.
- Recognize the pharmacists and pharmacy technicians responsibility to adhere to scientifically accepted infection prevention and control practices in all healthcare settings and the consequences of failing to comply.
Speaker(s)/Author(s)
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Blanca Ortíz, B.S.Ph., Pharm.D., GCG, Pharm.D.
Brief Bio : Pharm.D.,Dean and Professor of NOVA Southeastern University-School of Pharmacy |
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MARIO QUINTERO, PHARM.D.
Brief Bio : MARIO QUINTERO, PHARM.D.,MT |
Activity Number
0151-0000-20-005-H01-P/T
Release Date:
Jul 28, 2020
Credit Expiration Date:
Jul 28, 2023
CE Hours
3.00
Location
El Conquistador, Fajardo, PR