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Massage Magazine has updated their free client intake form to include questions and special client service agreement during COVID-19.   You can click HERE to download Massage Magazine's free client intake form!  Below is a screen shot of a small portion of their intake form:

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A spill kit is used to clean and decontaminate areas where blood spills have occurred. Having a spill kit prepared makes it less stressful to clean up a spill.

Spill kits can be purchased or you can make one yourself. These are standard items included in a spill kit:

1. Personal protective clothing that is disposable, including gloves, goggles, and an N95 mask. A paper gown should be included to protect your clothing from cross-contamination when there is a large spill.
2. Paper towels and an absorbent material.
3. Commercially available absorbent material for spill kits can be purchased. Cat litter or vermiculite can also be used. They are relatively inexpensive and work well, although they are messy.
4. Tongs and a dustpan
5. An EPA-registered disinfectant
6. Plastic bags (red will help identify the contaminated contents)

Responding to Body Fluid Spills (BFSs) on Porous and Nonporous Surface

This is the OSHA standard for anywhere establishment workers or customers may be exposed to hazardous agents:

1. Secure area and notify coworkers and other required responders.
2. Prepare to clean up:

• Bring prepared spill kit to spill site if there is a BFS.
• Select a disinfectant that is registered by the U.S. EPA to disinfect blood spills. Look for this information on the label. Select a cleaner for carpets and a disinfectant for hard surfaces.
• Put on personal protective equipment (PPE) (gloves, eye protection, and mask).

3. Remove contaminated objects, spill, and spill waste

• Cover all spills with absorbent powder and/or disposable paper or cloth towels, use the kit dustpan to remove these materials.
• Soak up any liquid absorbed into porous surfaces (like carpeting) with disposable rags. Then wash surface thoroughly and rinse.
• Use nonporous equipment such as a dustpan or tongs (not hands or vacuum) to pick up contaminated sharp items such as needles and broken glass.

4. Disinfect hard, non-porous surfaces

• Apply disinfectant and leave the disinfectant visibly wet on the surface for the required dwell time.
• For horizontal surfaces, pour disinfectant directly on to spill area.
• For vertical surfaces, spray the disinfectant onto a cloth and wipe on surface.

5. Dispose of spill waste

• Place all materials used in the cleaning process, including PPE, sharp objects, etc., in the bucket with a double-lined plastic bag. Dispose of this waste in the dumpster.

6. Follow-up

• Remove your contaminated clothing, double-bag it in 2 milli-meter thick. bags, label, wash separately in a washing machine in hot water, and dry on high setting.
• Wash your hands and other areas of your body that come into contact with the disinfectant or body fluid spill immediately after spill clean-up for at least 20 seconds with liquid soap under hot running water.
• If soap and water are unavailable, use waterless hand sanitizer right away, and then wash hands as soon as possible. Keep in mind: hand sanitizer will not work effectively in the presence of blood.
• If you have had an unprotected exposure, immediately contact your doctor for medical treatment advice.

Allow re-entry to area of spill when:

• all materials are removed;
• area is clean, properly disinfected, and dry.

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This 5 CE Hour Online Computer E-book Course includes 5 CE education of Germs, COVID-19 & Sanitation Information.  Anyone is welcome to take the training, but this course is only eligible for GENERAL CE Credit with the FLORIDA  Board of Massage: https://ceinstitute.com/products/5-ce-sanitation

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WebMD has shared a new study on January 25, 2022  (https://www.webmd.com/lung/news/20220125/omicron-survives-longer-plastic-skin-than-other-covid-variants) that shows the Omicron variant of COVID-19 can live on SKIN for 21 hours and plastic for 193.5 hours.

According to WebMD prior to Omicron (https://www.webmd.com/lung/printables/graphic-coronavirus-live-surfaces), they published in 2020 that COVID-19 can live on surfaces for:

5-Days: Metals (door knobs), Jewelry, Silverware and Dishes

Up to 5-Days:  Newspapers, Drinking Glasses and Windows

4-Days: Wood and Wood Furniture

2-3 Days: Plastics, Sinks, Water Bottles, Elevator Buttons

1-Day: Cardboard

 WebMD has also reported that COVID-19 can also cling to HAIR.

Given that COVID-19 and omnicron can live longer on surfaces than originally thought, it is important to practice these sanitary measures and more:

CLICK ON THE TITLE OR LINK TO REVIEW THE INFORMATION:

• 7 STEPS FOR PROPER MASSAGE THERAPY TABLE SANITATION DURING COVID-19: https://ceinstitute.com/blogs/news/7-steps-for-proper-massage-therapy-table-sanitation-during-covid-19

• HOW TO SANITIZE MASSAGE STONES: 7 STEPS TO REDUCE YOUR RISK RELATED TO COVID-19: https://ceinstitute.com/blogs/news/written-by-selena-belisle-owner-founder-ce-institute-llc

• How to Screen for COVID-19 Symptoms for Massage Therapy, Bodywork and Spa Appointments: https://ceinstitute.com/blogs/news/screen-covid

To view all of our COVID-19 Safety Information to help while practicing massage therapy, bodywork or cosmetology service, please visit our COVID-19 awareness blog for more articles and tips at:  https://ceinstitute.com/blogs/news/tagged/covid-19

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Screening for COVID-19 is an important business practice during the COVID-19 pandemic.

In this quick video, we'll show you a free client intake form that you can download from the internet and provide to clients to screen for COVID-19. We'll also share tips on how to execute the screening.

For more COVID related information for the massage, bodywork and spa industries, please visit us at: https://ceinstitute.com/blogs/news/tagged/covid-19

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For the past several years, CE Institute LLC has offered in-person training and trade show education, providing thousands of CE hours to students and trade show participants, until COVID19.  

Today, much of our population continues to self-isolate, suffer or lose their lives to this horrible virus. Our thoughts and prayers are with all those who suffer. We hope here will be an end to this soon.

At CE Institute LLC, we will not schedule any in-person training for the rest of 2021 due to the close personal contact our bodywork training entails for many hours at a time.  With great effort and expense, we have successfully launched our live interactive webinars which have been a tremendous success.  We hope to see old faces and new in any of these successful and discounted educational offerings.

Unfortunately, we are unable to plan future in-person training until we can better understand how to prevent the acquisition and/or transmission of this lethal contaminant.  And while we've become better as a world in recognizing the symptoms and treating this illness, plus developing a vaccine to help prevent hospitalization, our goal would be to hold an in-person training that provides minimal to zero risk to all participants.

We will continue to monitor the progress of COVID19 prevention and treatment options and plan in-person training according to COVID19 prevention and treatment success. So the answer is yes, one day we will resume in-person training when it is safe to do so.  We do not feel it is worth the risk to anyone's life to hold an in-person training, whether it be the student themself or someone else they could trasmit the virus to.  As such, until minimal to zero risk to in-person class participants can be achieved, we will not schedule or hold any in-person classes.