SPD Level One Training

The complete SPD Level One course is now interactive. Here is the next leap forward in department training and job competency for the Veterans' Affairs Acquisition and Material Management Service. Simple to use, interactive, step by step, and hundreds of images showing every aspect of SPD. Listen and Learn. Over 70 reports available to validate the training process.

The program teaches:

  • Section One: Introduction to SPD
  • Section Two: Microbiology
  • Section Three: Decontamination
  • Section Four: Surgical Instruments
  • Section Five: Packaging
  • Section Six: Sterilization
  • Section Seven: Clean-Sterile Storage
  • Section Eight: Distribution
  • Section Nine: Inventory Management
  • Section Ten: Anatomy & Physiolgy
Training covers all areas within SPD. Learn to safety handle biohazardous items, and then to make them safe for the next patient. Images of surgical instruments and instruction on care, cleaning, and inspection.
Step by step instructions are presented. Surgical tray assembly . Techniques on wrapping, peel-pouching, and the use of containers are presented.
Steam, EtO, Gas Plasma and high level disinfection. Preparation of surgical cases carts. Clean-storage and inventory management.