Leadership

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 critique…

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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 our battle lines to fight along side each other, instead of against each other, for the ultimate mission of safe patient care? The following guest article by Casey Evans seeks…

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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 leader completes a process improvement project, but no one notices — does it still matter? I’ll let the philosophers answer the fist question, but let’s tackle the second one here….

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