Progressive Half Time Webinar Series

60 minutes of online education for surgery center managers

Steam Sterilization

Monday, December 18, 2023
@ 11am PT | 12pm MT | 1pm CT | 2pm ET

This webinar will provide basic concepts and theories about the principles of steam sterilization as it applies to the Sterile Processing Department (SPD) and Operating Room environments. The expert presenter from Steris will also review monitoring steam sterilization cycles in both environments.

Register for the webinar

1 CE contact hour and/or 1 AEU credit are offered to RN and CASC credentialed attendees who complete course evaluation. Progressive Surgical Solutions, division of BSM Consulting is approved by the California Board of Registered Nurses, Provider #17435 and BASC, Provider #1016.

Meet The Speaker

Delores O’Connell LPN, CRCST, CIS, CER, CHL, FCS, CSPDT

Delores O’Connell is a Senior Clinical Education Specialist representing STERIS Corporation supporting Infection Prevention Technology (IPT) Healthcare in the Pacific Northwest. She is responsible for supporting the professional education needs to achieve best practices in infection prevention, sterile processing, surgical and endoscopy environments as it pertains to device processing.

Prior to STERIS, Mrs. O’Connell started her career as a staff nurse and spent 22 years as the Manager / Director of Sterile Processing, Surgical Inventory / SCM and Medical Equipment Logistics for a multi hospital system in the midwest. She has worked as a consultant on several healthcare construction projects assisting in developing a reprocessing department from the blueprint stage to full operation. She was actively involved in her last position with the build of the surgical services interface of the EMR with the OR preference cards for inventory and instrumentation and as an internal business manager for the OR.

She promotes Quality and Lean philosophies alongside management systems and cultural change to improve patient safety while collaboratively working with all stakeholders from clinicians to administrators.

She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Business Management and Computer Science from the University of Illinois and certifications from, HSPA, SGNA, ASQ, and CBSPD. Most recently she was recognized for her work on the SGNA Gastroenterology Nursing Core Curriculum 6^th Edition, and the IAHCSMM Central Service Technical Manual 8^th Edition, both as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ). She was awarded the 2017 and 2019 Educator of the Year Award from the Golden West Chapter of IAHCSMM and the 2018 Educator of the Year Award from the STERIS Corporation. Delores has presented to local, regional, national, and international continuing education programs and conferences for HSPA, OR Today, APCIC and APIC.