Teamwork
Bob The (SPD) Builder: Successful SPD Design Collaboration
SPD stakeholders play an important role in the architectural design process. Stakeholders, often with the aid of a planning consultant…
March 10, 2023 No Comments
Leadership
Quality
Our Productivity Metrics Are Broken: An Argument for Usable Units of Service
“I can get it to you quick or I can get it to you sterile, but I can’t do both.” Herein lies the challenge of
February 23, 2023 No Comments
Culture
Mastering the Art of Recruiting: Strategies for Finding High-Performing Sterile Processing Techs
One of the risks in only hiring the best, is that the rock stars often take off and get promoted out of your department. This
February 19, 2023 No Comments
Quality
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
October 28, 2022 No Comments
Staffing
SPD’s and Busy Bees: Measuring Productivity in Sterile Processing
This is a mentality shift for leadership in sterile processing. Fighting microscopic organisms day in and day out can cause our focus to…
August 28, 2022 No Comments
Culture
Fighting the War: Relationship Battles Between OR and SPD
[Our Sterile Processing teams #FightDirty every day. But what happens when we lose focus and begin fighting each other instead? And how do we reorient
February 5, 2022 No Comments
Community
Stronger Together: Why Your City/Region and State Needs a Sterile Processing Association
(I dedicate this post to Vermont, Nebraska, Louisiana, Alabama, New Mexico, Utah, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, and every CS professional who feels alone. We have not
December 1, 2021 No Comments
Culture
Prove it & Improve it: Building Sterile Processing Policies that Actually Work
We assumed that by telling the team to add this practice to their routine that it would just happen. We learned a lot about clear…
November 10, 2021 No Comments
Communication
“Cookies Are For Chumps”: Getting Sterile Processing Recognition Right
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
June 23, 2021 No Comments
Teamwork
Making & Taking the Initiative: How to Get the Most out of Your CS/SPD Process Improvement Project
If a tree falls in a forest, but there’s no one around to hear it — does it still make a sound? If a CS
May 5, 2021 No Comments