Hospital hygienist
A hospital hygienist is a specially trained doctor ( specialist in hygiene and environmental medicine and / or specialist in microbiology, virology and infection epidemiology) who advises the hospital management and staff on hygiene issues. In the Free State of Bavaria, the Bavarian State Ministry for Environment and Health has ordered in the Ordinance on Hygiene and Infection Prevention in Medical Institutions (MedHygV) in the version of February 1, 2010, that people without a license to practice medicine have a scientific degree or have completed a degree in veterinary medicine and have been demonstrably working as a hospital hygienist with corresponding tasks for at least 15 years on January 1, 2017, may continue to perform the function of hospital hygienist.
Some state medical associations have created the possibility of acquiring an additional medical qualification in hospital hygiene by completing a curricular training course. After a practical phase under supervision, the doctors trained in this way can then also be employed as hospital hygienists.
According to the guidelines of the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), a full-time hospital hygienist should be employed in acute hospitals with over 400 beds.
In clinics without a full-time hospital hygienist (or with external supervision), the tasks are carried out in whole or in part by the so-called " hygiene officer doctor ", who usually only has training courses.
requirements
The 60-month training period is regulated in the state-specific training regulations of the medical associations .
tasks
further tasks of the hospital hygienist:
- Hygiene inspections
- Creation of hygiene plans
- Hygiene monitoring
- Definition and monitoring of disinfection measures
- Training of hospital staff areas
- Hygienic-microbiological checks and examinations
- Clarification of infection clusters
- Creation and evaluation of infection and resistance statistics
- Advice on the procurement of medical devices, medical products, sterilization and disinfection devices and disinfectants
- Advice on new construction and renovation measures
- Cooperation with supervisory authorities (e.g. health department)
literature
- Guideline for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention (Old Annexes to the Guideline for Hospital Hygiene and Infection Prevention) pdf
Web links
- DGHM German Society for Hygiene and Microbiology
- BDH Professional Association of German Hygienists
- DGKH German Society for Hospital Hygiene eV
- GHUP Society for Hygiene, Environmental Medicine and Preventive Medicine
- Working group on hospital and practice hygiene
- Additional qualification in hospital hygiene Medical Association of Lower Saxony [1]
- Lower Saxony Ordinance on Hygiene and Infection Prevention in Medical Institutions (NMedHygVO) [2]
- RKI Personnel and organizational requirements for the prevention of nosocomial infections [3]