Hygiene specialist

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Hygiene specialist is a state-recognized professional title in Germany that is issued after one to two years of advanced training . The basis of the further training is the permission to use the professional title of health and nurse or health and child nurse as well as several years of professional experience in this area. The hygiene specialist works in hospitals and in inpatient, semi - inpatient and outpatient facilities in the health and social sector within the framework of the statutory regulations on hospital hygiene and infection prevention .

Admission requirements

The course is based on the advanced training and examination regulations for specialist nurses and nurses for hospital hygiene - hygiene specialist - WeiVHygPfl of April 11, 1995 (GVBl. P. 315). The entry requirements are a completed training as a health and nurse or health and child nurse and at least two years of professional experience in the professions mentioned.

Course of further training

The advanced training can be carried out full-time in one year or part-time in two years and is divided into a theoretical and practical part:

Theory:

  • Basic course
  • Hospital operational organization and social sciences
  • IT part of the hospital operating organization
  • microbiology
  • Technical hospital hygiene

Practice:

  • Introductory internship and employer internship (at the employer if a hygiene specialist is available)
  • Internship in external hospitals (if a hygiene specialist is available)
  • Hygiene institute internship (laboratory internship)

The following areas are important during the internship:

tasks

The overall responsibility for the clinic hygiene incumbent usually the medical director of a hospital, the hospital epidemiologist , the hygiene responsible physician will advise and hygiene specialist.

The hygiene specialist is usually assigned the following tasks:

  • Monitoring of hospital hygiene and hospital hygiene measures
  • Carrying out visits to the wards and other nursing, diagnostic, therapeutic and supply-related areas
  • Informing doctors and nursing staff and other managerial staff in the event of suspected cases of frequent infections
  • Creation of infection and resistance statistics
  • Training of employees regarding hygiene measures
  • Monitoring of hygiene and disinfection measures
  • Creation of work instructions and hygiene plans
  • Participation in epidemiological investigations
  • Participation in the technical supervision of the sterilization department , the bed control center and the hospital building cleaning

Difference to the hygiene officer

Hygiene specialists and hygiene officers complement each other in their work, but cannot replace each other. Hygiene specialists advise on all questions of hospital hygiene, assess the existing risks and derive measures to detect, prevent and combat hospital infections. The scope of the advisory service depends on the risk profile of the respective institution.

Hygiene officers are contacts and multipliers for questions relating to hygiene in their area of ​​responsibility. Hygiene officers work towards compliance with the rules of hygiene. To do this, they have to know the organization as well as the work processes in the respective facility well and bring them into harmony with the hygiene requirements. This task cannot be performed by external consultants. The aim is not a formal external commissioning to meet a legal requirement, but a content-related performance of the task in the facility.

Hygiene specialists

  • Duration of training approx. 12 months full-time
  • Position: It is recommended that the professional cooperation between the doctors responsible for hygiene and the hospital hygienist be specified in writing in internal company agreements.

Hygiene officer

  • Training duration 40 hours as online training or in face-to-face classes.
  • Position: The hygiene officers in nursing are valuable intermediaries and multipliers between the ward / area and the hygiene team and can thus make a decisive contribution to the acceptance and implementation of recommended measures.

literature

  • Bundesgesundheitsblatt 4/2004, pp. 323–328: "H. Rüden, P. Gastmeier: Roles and tasks of hygiene specialists and hospital hygienists with special consideration of cost-benefit aspects "
  • Robert Koch Institute (Ed.): Guideline for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (Old Annexes of the Guideline for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention ) , 2003. pp. 111–123: 5.3.7 Further training to become a hygienist nurse or hygienist

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