Beyond the Tunes
Beyond the Tunes (A Sterile Processing Album)
So Clean (Track 1) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Pay Day (Track 2) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Playing Second Fiddle (Track 3) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Millions of Stars (Track 4) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Go Beyond (Track 5) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
It Doesn’t Always Have to Be This Way (Track 6) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Wildfire (Track 7) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Major Tray (Track 8) | Beyond the Tunes
To celebrate International Beyond Clean Day 2022, we are excited to release an exclusive album dedicated to our Sterile Processing heroes and #CleanFreaks around the globe who fight dirty, every instrument every time. Thanks for all you’ve done for us over the past five years since we launched Beyond Clean in 2017 by helping us…
Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2: The Sterile Processing Album
Sharps in the Dark: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
There are few more dangerous places to work in our nation’s hospitals than the decontamination room of a Central Sterile department. The opportunity for bloodborne pathogen exposure is ever-present, and yet many CS/SPD technicians are daily put at risk of injury by unsafe post-operative instrument preparations. Let’s take a look at the four most common…
6:31AM: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“It’s 6:31 am. The first case in OR 3 is scheduled to start at 7 am. The OR tech can’t find the trays. The Vendor can’t find the trays. The SPD can’t find the trays. The patient has been nervously anticipating this surgery for weeks. They and their spouse took off work to drive in…
Front Page Test: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“I’ve got a very simple test I like to share with Hospital Administrators, SPD managers, and Quality & Risk personnel when I get questions about “if this instrument can be used on a patient”… I call it “The Newspaper Test.” Here’s how it works. When someone brings you an instrument with a questionable issue: 👉…
More than Meets the Eye: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
We need more (informed) eyes 🔬 👀 on surgical instruments before they get packaged and processed on their way into the Operating Room. 👉 The reality is this: The life of a surgical instrument is “nasty, brutish, and short,” to steal a phrase from the philosopher Thomas Hobbes. These little stainless steel (or some times…
The Price We Pay: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“Every now and then a little article or two or three hundred will pop up on Linkedin with some kind of variation of “People don’t leave jobs, they leave toxic cultures” or “People don’t leave companies, they leave bad managers.” If you’ve spent any time on this platform, you’ve probably seen it — and maybe…
No Such Thing As Small: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
There are no little places or little people in the world of Sterile Processing. Every safe surgery we support – from a simple incision to the most complex pediatric heart procedure – is big deal. Each and every patient matters. Your facility may not cast a large shadow in an industry that highlights sprawling health…
Ballad of the Microbe Slayers: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” – GK Chesterton When it comes to story-telling, some of us in the healthcare profession pretend that such activity is the purview of kindergarten teachers and grandpas, but definitely not our…
Survey Ready: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“Let me just start this by saying there is no magic bullet for ensuring your department is ready for a Joint Commission or CMS survey. As ready as you think you are, there are always hidden issues lurking behind the next page of documentation or varying levels of confusion between your department’s policies and the…
We Are One, In the Fight to Sterilize: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“That shift is a bunch of lazy bums!” “They never do anything.” “We always have to pick up their slack.” Besides the occasional battle with the OR, internal SPD shift wars are one of the most common culture killers among instrument reprocessing teams. They are often some of the most frustrating challenges out there for…
ASC Wipeout: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“Let’s be honest with ourselves for 1/2 a second here, folks. 👉 Attn: Surgeons, ASC Directors, Vendors Reps, Big Ortho, Regulatory, and my dear #CleanFreaks in SPD. 👇 There is not one person on planet earth who thinks it’s a good idea to dump tons of orthopedic tray volume on ASC reprocessing departments. No one…
I Got It: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“One of the most annoying sounds I’ve ever heard was the buzzer on the cart washer in my first hospital. Man, that thing sounded like a cricket the size of Godzilla was scratching its legs together—again, and again, and again. But as loud and annoying as the sound was, the buzzer also served as the…
Chipped Steel Blues: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
“Any volunteers out there to have this CHIPPED needle holder used on YOUR surgery? Because it was used on someone’s surgery, and was about to be used on someone else’s before I grabbed it during an on-site assessment. 😱 When I catch things like this, the scariest part is that no one ever knows where…
Sweet Recognition: Beyond the Tunes Vol. 2
I’m not a cookie-hater. I just like some things more than cookies – like getting a shout out from the chief of surgery, or receiving a thank you note from the hospital president. I can get my own cookies at Walmart, but those other things are worth far more (to me) than 4 for a…