EVS Advanced Specialty Procedures

Training a team? Department packs: 10 seats ($699) or 25 seats ($1,499). Seats do not expire and can be reassigned. This specialty course is sold separately from EVS Complete.

About this course

Some rooms carry more risk than a patient room. In the operating room the patient has an open incision. In the cath lab a sterile procedure shares the space with imaging equipment and radiation. Endoscopy runs case after heavily soiled case. In the pharmacy cleanroom the products go straight into patients' veins. This course is for the EVS technicians who work in those rooms, and it teaches the sequence, the timing, the roles and the proof of a clean in six specialty areas.

Every lesson ties the work to patient flow. In a procedural area, the room you are turning over is the next patient's case, so a turnover done right and on time protects both the patient and the schedule.

What this course adds

It goes well past a specialty overview. If your team already knows the basics, this is the depth: a turnover run by role, sequence and contact time with a posted who-cleans-what chart; cleaning imaging equipment and lead aprons without damaging them; the clean and dirty boundary around scope reprocessing and the air-change wait after bronchoscopy; cleanest to dirtiest in a USP 797 cleanroom, with the USP 800 steps for hazardous drug areas; UV-C, hydrogen peroxide and electrostatic devices as an add-on after manual cleaning; and blind fluorescent marker and ATP checks scored with a pass rule. It is checked against current AORN, CDC, USP, EPA and AAMI guidance, including AORN's Guideline for Environmental Hygiene (2027 edition).

How it works

• Six specialty lessons plus a welcome, each with a scene photo, a teaching graphic, check-yourself questions and a Your turn activity
• An 8-question practice quiz after Lessons 1 to 6, unlimited tries
• A practice lab: one float shift across all six areas
• Final quiz: 25 questions from a bank of 30, 80 percent to pass, 3 attempts
• Quick Reference Card and a Specialty Competency Checklist your supervisor can sign (PDF), and a certificate of completion

Who it is for

Experienced EVS technicians assigned to, or moving into, the OR, procedural areas or the pharmacy cleanroom; technicians who run no-touch devices or take part in cleaning audits; and team leads and trainers who want one standard to teach from.

Where it fits

This is the specialty rung on the ITC EVS career ladder: Healthcare EVS Technician: Technical Skills, then EVS Strategic Skill Building, then Floor Care Technician or Advanced Specialty Procedures, then Team Lead and EVS Leadership. It is sold separately from the EVS Complete program. Many teams add Choices Essentials, ITC’s short workplace ethics course.

What this course is, and is not

This is knowledge training. It does not train you to clean inside a pharmacy hood, reprocess endoscopes or handle sterile instruments, and it does not replace your hospital’s cleanroom training or the competency validation your supervisor does on the job. When this course and your hospital’s policy or a product label differ, follow your policy and the label.

This course earns an ITC certificate of completion. It is not an AHE certification and does not replace your hospital’s competency validation or policies, and it does not promise a job or a raise.