Breaking the Chain: Mastering Infection Control Basics
Speaker:
Amanda Hill, RDH
CE Credits:
About the Course
Ensuring infection control compliance can be challenging for many practices. Dental professionals face various challenges in preventing exposure to pathogens, which includes complying with regulations, training the team, ensuring cleanliness and sterilization, managing costs, and implementing effective communication and documentation processes. These tasks play
a vital role in maintaining a safe environment for patients and staff.
Noncompliance with dental infection control protocols is not an option and can have severe repercussions, such as infections to patients or team members, legal and financial penalties, and harm to reputation resulting in loss of revenue and patients.
In this course, we will review OSHA and CDC protocols and key strategies for applying infection control effectively.
Educational Objectives
Define infection prevention principles and recommendations for dental health care settings
Recognize how to prevent transmission of infectious agents through standard precautions
Employ standard operating procedures to remain in compliance with regulations
Formulate a successful infection control plan
Your Instructor:
Amanda Hill, RDH
Award-winning author and enthusiastic speaker, Amanda Hill, BSDH, ROH, CDIPC is committed to providing education that is accurate, accessible, and fun! From coast to coast her speaking programs attract and delight audiences with her infectious enthusiasm and compelling content.
In addition to her monthly column for Dentistry IQ, Amanda is frequently a contributor to industry publications such as ROH Magazine, Inside Dental Hygiene, Infection Control Today, Dentistry Today, and Dr. Bicuspid (where she received recognition for the most read article of 2020).
A self-proclaimed Waterline Warrior, Amanda is passionate about infection control. She is the recipient of ADS's Emerging Infection Control Leader Award (2022). She is a member of the advisory boards for ROH magazine, Dentistry IQ, and ADS's Infection Control in Practice Editorial Review Board. She is an educator for the nation's largest dental job board, Dental Post.net.
Growing up in and then marrying into the military, Amanda has experienced life and dentistry all over the world. She is a lifelong learner that is passionate about staying abreast of the latest clinical developments within the industry.
Awards:
HuFriedy Golden Scaler Award (1996)
ProEdge Educator of the Year (2021)
ADS Emerging Infection Control Leader (2022)
Memberships:
American Dental Hygienists' Association
Virginia Dental Hygienists' Association
Tidewater Dental Hygienists' Association
Association for Dental Safety (ADS)
American Academy of Dental Hygiene
DEW Dental Entrepreneurial Woman
American Academy for Oral Syst
Conflict of Interest:
None reported
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TENNESSEE DENTAL ASSOCIATION
Nationally Approved PACE Program Provider for FAGD/MAGD credit.
Approval does not imply acceptance by
any regulatory authority or AGD endorsement.
4/1/2026 to 3/31/2029.
Provider ID# 219273