Cleaning and Disinfection of the Cleanroom

About the Course
This course will provide the learner with the knowledge to properly clean and disinfect the cleanroom.

Target Audience
This course is designed for those working in a compounding controlled environment that need to understand how to do properly clean and disinfect the cleanroom.

Statement of Need
Technicians need to have an understanding of how to properly clean and disinfect a cleanroom to minimize contamination and maintain a suitable environment for compounding sterile preparations

Learning Objectives:
At the conclusion of this activity, Pharmacists should be able to:

1. Discuss the factors used for cleaning and disinfection and which one may be the most important
2. Discuss the primary factor for determining cleaning frequency
3. Explain the decision making process for selecting disinfectants
4. Discuss which cleaning agents are used for deactivating hazardous drugs
5. Explain how to assess cleaning efficacy

At the conclusion of this activity, Technicians should be able to:

1. Discuss cleanroom best practices to minimize contamination
2. Arrange the order of cleaning for PECs and SECs
3. List two broad categories of disinfectants
4. Identify the 4 steps for properly cleaning a BSC after a hazardous spill
5. Explain the order in which a LAFW and BSC is cleaned

ACTIVITY DETAILS AND SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Credit Amounts:

• CPE: 2 hours or 0.2 CEU
• In order to receive credit participants must complete post-test and survey
• Cost: $19.99
• Release: September 1st 2020
• Expires: September 1st 2023
• Estimated time to complete: 2 hours
• System Requirements: Internet and web browser (Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer) and speakers

Faculty
Seth DePasquale, R.Ph., BCSCP

Faculty DisclosureAll planners, speakers, authors, and reviewers involved with content development for continuing education activities provided by Lyceum are expected to disclose any real or perceived conflict of interest related to the content of the activity. Detailed disclosures will be included in participant materials or given prior to the start of the activity. 
Seth DePasquale is the faculty and advisor for content for Lyceum LLC, an accredited provider of continuing education by ACPE

The material presented in this course represents information obtained from the scientific literature as well as the clinical experiences of the speakers. In some cases, the presentations might include discussion of investigational agents and/or off-label indications for various agents used in clinical practice. Speakers will inform the audience when they are discussing investigational and/or off-label uses. 

Content review confirmed that the content was developed in a fair, balanced manner free from commercial bias. Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone commercial bias in any presentation, but it is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Lyceum, LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education as a provider of continuing pharmacy education