Reading Sterility and Environmental Monitoring Results: Supporting Safe Pharmaceutical Practices
The Challenge:
Maintaining a sterile environment in nuclear pharmacies is critical to preventing life-threatening infections. Nuclear pharmacists need to accurately read sterility and environmental monitoring results, including identifying contamination in various media types. However, finding quality training visuals—particularly for liquid broth media contamination—was a significant obstacle, as real-world examples were difficult to source.
Maintaining a sterile environment in nuclear pharmacies is critical to preventing life-threatening infections. Nuclear pharmacists need to accurately read sterility and environmental monitoring results, including identifying contamination in various media types. However, finding quality training visuals—particularly for liquid broth media contamination—was a significant obstacle, as real-world examples were difficult to source.
The Idea:
To ensure learners could confidently recognize contamination, I envisioned a course that paired realistic visuals with interactive training. The solution required creating custom, high-quality visuals that replicated contamination scenarios in both solid and liquid media.
To ensure learners could confidently recognize contamination, I envisioned a course that paired realistic visuals with interactive training. The solution required creating custom, high-quality visuals that replicated contamination scenarios in both solid and liquid media.
The Solution:
I designed and developed the Reading Sterility and Environmental Monitoring Results course using Articulate Storyline and Blender 3D. Key features include:
I designed and developed the Reading Sterility and Environmental Monitoring Results course using Articulate Storyline and Blender 3D. Key features include:
Custom 3D Models: Using Blender 3D, I created realistic test tube representations of liquid broth media with various contamination types, ensuring learners could clearly identify growth patterns.
Comprehensive Learning Objectives: Learners are guided through recognizing contamination in solid and liquid media, replicating sterility reading steps, and understanding microorganism growth characteristics.
Interactive and Concise Design: A 30-minute course with focused, engaging content, including interactive elements for evaluating real-world sterility samples.
Consistency in Visuals: By modeling assets in Blender 3D, the course provided standardized, high-quality visuals for all contamination types, enhancing learner confidence and recognition skills.
This course equips nuclear pharmacists with the practical knowledge to ensure sterility, fostering safer pharmaceutical practices in Cardinal Health’s facilities.
