How Lean is Your Data? 5S-ing the Numbers in Sterile Processing
When issues crop up in your department, you might pull a boatload of numbers from your tracking system, put them into an Excel…
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Competency Saves Lives: Why the Hard Work of SPD Competency Paperwork Can’t be Ignored
In recent months, I’ve seen multiple videos of similar horrifying events pop up on my social media newsfeeds. The consistent theme runs like this: surveillance videos of parking lots, food courts, or bus stations; an infant/toddler begins choking and stops breathing; and a frantic parent hands the distressed child off to a police officer or…
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The Nuts & Bolts of Pre-Cleaning: The Policies, Processes, and Products That Make Pre-Cleaning Work
(To earn 2 CEs for HSPA & CBSPD, read the article below, watch this panel discussion, then take the CE quiz here!) If you’ve been around Sterile Processing or the OR at all for the last 5-10 years, I’m sure you’ve already heard about the importance of Precleaning. Every accreditation survey group expects precleaning to…
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