OVERVIEW

BCSCP RECERT - USP 800 Handling Hazardous Drugs (HDs) Handling in Healthcare Settings is organized by American Pharmacists Association (APhA).

Initial release date: June 20, 2024
Expiration date: June 20, 2025 - No credit can be earned after this date

Course Description:
This BCSCP Recertification course describes the standards to protect personnel, patients, and the environment when handling hazardous drugs (HDs). Handling HDs includes, but is not limited to, the receipt, storage, compounding, dispensing, administration, and disposal of sterile and nonsterile products and preparations. The course provides an overview of the chapter and describes personnel responsibilities and educational expectations. It also covers facility design, engineering control, and documentation requirements.

Learning Objectives
At the completion of this activity, participants will be able to:

Identify where to find a list identifying the types of HDs, the associated types of potential exposure, and where exposure may occur
Design an assessment of risk.
Outline the responsibilities of personnel who handle HDs.
Recognize protection requirements, including personal protective equipment, training, and facilities and engineering controls.
Identify special considerations necessary when handling HDs, such as while receiving, transporting, storing, compounding, labeling, packaging, disposing, dispensing, and administering them.
Describe documentation, communication, and surveillance program standards for HDs.
Define environmental quality control, proper cleaning, and spill management.