Time can seem fleeting when balanced against the many time-consuming tasks that sterile processing (SP) professionals must complete each day.
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AORN Updates Team Communication and Environment of Care Guidelines: Their Impact on SPD
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) updated its “Guideline on Team Communications” and “Guideline for Safe Environment of Care,” both of which feature numerous recommendations that affect Sterile Processing (SP) areas and functions.
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Safe SP Practices Rely on Staff Doing Right Thing
Quality outcomes and the consistent provision of safe, standards-based patient care hinges on employee integrity
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AORN Revised “Guideline for Manual High-Level Disinfection”
The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) updated its Guideline for Manual High-level Disinfection. The revised version still recommends that devices should be sterilized if both high-level disinfection (HLD) and sterilization options are included in the instructions for use (IFU). The rationale is that terminal sterilization offers the highest margin of safety.
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SPDs: Stay Ready for Accreditation Surveys
Last-minute plans and pressures from leaders to “get ready” when a facility enters the window of an accreditation survey instills fear and reduces confidence in many health care workers.
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Surgical Champions Key to Effective SPD-OR Engagement
Health care leaders who fail to proactively communicate or share decision-making as it relates to sterile processing (SP) operations can lead to culture of divisiveness, lack of trust and a loss of confidence in SP processes.
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