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THETA Chapter April Newsletter
By Colleen Landers, President Theta Chapter

The Theta Chapter meeting was held February 9, 2011 by OTN. There were 59 attendees from 39 sites. We reviewed the constitution and changes were submitted from the chapter. We had a great discussion and members brought forth some excellent changes. Minutes will be posted on the Theta website and e-mailed to all Theta members. Education was provided by Nick Grayson of Cameron Instruments, who spoke about temperature and humidity controls.

Theta Chapter Classroom course May 4 - 7, 2011 was reviewed and all sites were asked to advertise the course in their communities as registration is low at this time.

THETA/LAMBDA Classroom course 2012: The dates May 9 - 11, 2012 for the Theta classroom course were presented and the sites are: Timmins host site, OTN satellite sites are Thunder Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Sudbury, North Bay and Orillia. These will be posted June 1, 2011 on the website for the 2012 course.

Theta Education Day: May 13th, Social 7-9 p.m. North Bay Holiday Inn Express
May 14th Education Day 8am- 3:15pm. Form is posted on the website www.csao.net under Theta Chapter. This is a free education day for Theta Chapter Members and all reprocessing workers and infection control practitioners are invited for a nominal fee of $35.00. Please post the attached sheet in your departments. Members from other chapters are invited to attend for the $35.00 fee to cover costs.

Agenda: May 14th Education Day

0800 Registration Welcome
0830 Stress in MDRD Sponsored by Keir Surgical
930 Break and Exhibits
1000 Ophthalmic Instruments? Cleaning/Disinfection/TASS Baush & Lomb
1100 Quality Assurance Program/Legal Risk or Gaps? Michelle Bellefeuille
1200 Lunch and Exhibits
1245 Design of MDRD CSA Z8000 Colleen Landers
1334 Problem Solving MDRD? Wrapping/Loading Sterilizer/Wet Packs Steris
1445 Panel Questions and Answers – Speakers
1515 Draws and closing remarks Evaluations

Theta Membership is 113 and we are the largest chapter in membership. There are still many technicians who are not members but we have members from all healthcare facilities in our chapter. Congratulations! If you are not a member, the membership form is found on the CSAO website under membership.

The next meeting is April 13, 2011 from 1:30-3 pm and the education topic is "Bed Pan Washers - Validation and Requirements." If your site is not registered, please contact Nancy Aelick at naelick@sjgh.ca. Theta members who have attended three meetings will be eligible for a draw to win free registration to the CSAO conference September 12 and 13 at the Double Tree Hilton Dixon Road, Toronto, so make sure you attend.