Live Webinar Title: Cleaning, Sterilization and Disinfection
Date: January 22, 2026
Time: 12:00pm Central Time
Description: This webinar is presented by Loie Ruhl Couch, RN, CIC, Infection Preventionist, Excellentia Advisory Group. Loie graduated with her RN 25+ years ago and then received a Bachelor of Science in Health Care Leadership. Loie was certified (CIC) in Infection Control in 2005. She possesses a varied medical/surgical nursing background including emergency medicine and trauma. Infection Control became her area of specialty in 2003. Loie has authored and co-authored several abstracts for both APIC and SHEA and has presented at several National APIC conferences around the country. She is the co-author of a chapter in the 3rd edition of the SHEA text, “Practical Epidemiology in Healthcare.”
Loie was an Infection Prevention Specialist at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis Missouri and had overall responsibility of the BJC Health System surgery centers’ infection control programs. Loie has been involved with Excellentia Advisory Group for several years as our Infection Preventionist and Academic Speaker. Now that Loie has retired from BJC in 2025, she has become much more available to Excellentia for more quality Infection Prevention programs.
Learning Objectives:
- State the basic components of cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
- Identify products and equipment used to properly clean, disinfect and sterilize instruments, devices and equipment
- Review processing issues “in the news”
- Evaluate potential auditing measures to ensure appropriate results from cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
Regarding continuing education credit...
BASC: “This program is approved for up to 1.0 hours of IPCHs by BASC Provider #0707. The content area is Infection Prevention Strategies.
Contact Hour: This presentation will be worth 1.0 Contact Hour of continuing education through the California Board of Registered Nursing. Upon request, you will receive a Certificate of Participation showing your Contact Hour.
Once you and any/all staff have reviewed this presentation, you will be eligible to receive a Certificate of Completion worth up to 1.0 Credit Hour of continuing education. You simply contact us at events@excellentiagroup.com requesting your certificates, using the Certificate Request Form found in the link below. You will need to provide a typed list of all participants first and last names, position title (RN ,BSN, etc.), license numbers (if professionals) and date of completion.
* Excellentia Advisory Group LLC is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP 15481: Issue Date: 4/6/2010;
CLICK HERE for Certificate Request Form