INF007 - Sharps Safety and Pharmaceutical Waste

This course contains two articles: one comparing active and passive technologies in sharps safety and the other describing the role of an infection control practitioner (ICP) in managing pharmaceutical waste. To successfully complete this course, you must attain a minimum score of 80% on the final exam and complete the course training survey.

Learning objectives:

1. Discuss state and federal attention and enforcement activity involving pharmaceutical waste; 
2. Describe the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act as it applies to pharmaceutical waste; 
3. Identify tools for determining which waste pharmaceuticals meet the federal criteria of a hazardous waste; 
4. Describe two distinct features of a truly passive sharps safety device; 
5. Identify the value of having frontline staff on a sharps safety evaluation committee.