JUNE COVER STORY
Compliance Responsibilities
Hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) must comply with myriad rules, regulations and laws from an alphabet soup of regulatory entities. These include CMS, OSHA, HHS, the CDC and HIPPA, to name just a few.
INDUSTRY INSIGHTS
CenTrak Offers Consulting, Training Services
CenTrak has announced the launch of CenTrak Engage. A new release describes CenTrak Engage as “ new expert-led consulting and training services providing a tailored, multi-tiered assessment and transformation program to health care systems. Through practical guidance,...
Countertop Medication Dispensing Cabinet Announced
As part of a line extension, TouchPoint Medical has released a new countertop model of its F series automated medication dispensing cabinet. Any facility that is short on space or budget will benefit from the countertop model, according to a news release. Medication...
Encompass Group Brings eMax Replacement Surfaces to Acute Care
Encompass Group LLC is bringing its line of eMax Replacement Support Surfaces to the acute care market. “With the overwhelmingly positive reception acute care has given our Airisana Therapeutic Support Surface we’re expanding our product offerings in this important...
Getinge clarifies FDA Medical Device recall communication
Following the FDA communication to healthcare providers on June 2, Getinge reinforces guidance that no devices mentioned in the Field Safety Notice need to be returned. On June 8, 2022, FDA revised their published press release, FDA Medical Device Recalls: Atrium...
UVDI Introduces Next Generation UVDI-360 Room Sanitizer Equipped with IoT Smart Device Communications
Today at the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) Conference, UVDI is proud to introduce the next generation UVDI-360 Room Sanitizer --- now equipped with UV Smart Connect™ cloud communications technology --- making it even easier...
SPOTLIGHT
Spotlight On: Justin Fontenot
In the 21 years he’s given to the nursing profession, Justin Fontenot, DNP, RN, NEA-BC, knows that the patients with whom he’s interacted have changed his life. The intimate connections the profession has afforded him to the people in his care, and the ways in which that work affirms their mutual humanity, have underscored his desire to leave the profession a more inclusive field than when he entered it.
Spotlight On: Marisa Streelman
Marisa Streelman had considered a career in medicine long before a health careers program at her Flint, Michigan high school offered her the opportunity to preview a handful of hospital jobs prior to college. Although Streelman initially had planned to become a physician, after having been exposed to the work of nursing teams at the hospital, she noticed how much more patient interaction nurses experienced than physicians did — and that was the work with which she felt most connected. It was then that Streelman realized she’d be better off studying nursing.
Spotlight On: Kathleen Singleton, MSN, APRN-CNS, CMSRN
At the end of a 50-year nursing career, it would have been easy for Kathleen Singleton, MSN, APRN-CNS, CMSRN, to reflect upon the circumstances that brought her into health care as the culmination of a lifelong interest. But at the beginning, Singleton describes her...
Spotlight On: Samantha Pillay
Her 20-year surgical career has brought Dr. Samantha Pillay of Adelaide, Australia no shortage of milestones.
PRODUCT SHOWROOM
Instrument Storage and Transport Market Growth Expected
The surgical instrument storage and transport market is expected to mirror the overall surgery market and experience continued growth in coming years.
Henry Schein Miltex Instrument Cassettes
Miltex Instrument Cassettes, distributed by Henry Schein Medical, are manufactured with passivated stainless steel and are available in a variety of sizes and configurations to meet all storage needs.
Pegasus Hygieia Rack System
The Pegasus Hygieia Rack System is an 100% aluminum sealed structure with no open holes, movable shelves without tools and standard rails and heavyweight telescopic slides.
Medline Biohazard Transport Container
Medline’s new biohazard transport container safely holds and transports contaminated instruments and devices from the point of use to reprocessing while meeting OSHA blood-borne pathogen standards.
AESCULAP Aicon Sterile Container System
Introducing – the AESCULAP Aicon Sterile Container System. With features that help streamline processes and reduce the possibility of wet sets, Aesculap’s next generation rigid container is everything you’d expect from the market leader. The new AESCULAP Aicon Container delivers greater sterility confidence, 100% container and basket synchronization, up to a 47 percent less dry time with the Enhanced Drying System1 and up to a 200 percent increase in sterile aseptic area.2
OUT OF THE OR
Contest – June 2022
Quick and Easy Dishes for Dining Al Fresco
Warmer weather is often welcome for a variety of reasons and dining outdoors can help take that appreciation to the next level. Keeping ingredients lists short and prep time minimal also allows you to spend more time enjoying the sunshine and blue skies al fresco with the ones you love.
Simple Home Gym Must Have—Kettlebell
The kettlebell is arguably one of the most underutilized pieces of equipment in the gym because most people don’t know or understand how to use it.
9 Ways to Crank Up the Nutrients
If you want to subscribe to a particular way of eating, let it be nutritvorism. Nutrivores follow the nutrients, not the fads. When you are cooking for yourself or others, take the nutrivore challenge and crank up the nutrients, not the dogma.
Good Hydration May Reduce Long-Term Risks for Heart Failure
Staying well-hydrated may be associated with a reduced risk for developing heart failure, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health.
Time Management is a Misnomer
Time and again we hear about the need for good time management, but if we examine that phrase, we realize it’s not accurate. Every person on the planet gets the same amount of time every day: 24 hours. Nobody gets more, nobody gets less, and no matter how much we try, we cannot speed up nor slow down time.
Eggs Are In Season
When you envision seasonal eating in spring, produce like asparagus and strawberries may leap to mind. In fact, most proteins have a season when they are at their best as well and that is certainly the case for eggs. They are nutrition powerhouses that peak in quality in spring and summer if you know what to look for.
Are You Prioritizing Your Schedule or Scheduling Priorities?
Have you ever heard the phrase, “All things are created twice?” That phase sits at the heart of habit two from Stephen Covey’s bestselling book, “7 Habits of Highly Effective People.” Habit two is called, “Begin with the end in mind,” and it correlates to what Covey calls the first creation. It’s called first creation because begin with the end in mind is something that occurs in our heads. The second creation occurs when we create the functional finished product.
The Best Mobility Exercise You’re Not Doing for Your Hips
There are plenty of stretches and mobility drills to strengthen the hips, but the most important is the Hip Controlled Articular Rotation (Hip CAR). It is the best way to ensure you are maintaining and strengthening the hip joint to its fullest capacity. Flexibility plus strength equals mobility.