HSPA

By Julie E. Williamson Consistent, on-time availability of clean, sterile, well-functioning instrumentation is essential for safe, high-quality surgical outcomes. Although sterile processing (SP) professionals bear much of that responsibility, it’s essential that...

By Lawayne Perkins In the realm of sterile processing (SP), there are many vital roles in which surgical services professionals should be aware. Every role and position on the SP team is critical to the department’s success and, ultimately, to the success of the OR...

The International Association of Healthcare Central Service Materiel Management’s 2020 Annual Conference & Expo, taking place April 26-29 in Chicago, Illinois, will offer a wide range of educational opportunities to help sterile processing (SP) professionals advance their knowledge and professionalism and give their departments a quality and safety boost.

Workplace and interdepartmental conflict are all too common occurrences in today’s health care landscape, and with time and resource constraints squeezing more and more health care professionals, it’s becoming even more challenging.

Sterile Processing (SP) professionals’ critical core responsibility is the processing of instrumentation and the delivery of clean, high-level disinfected or sterilized devices that are well functioning and ready for patient use in the operating room and other patient care areas.

By Susan Klacik The primary objective of sterilization packaging is to maintain the sterile integrity of the packaged contents until they are used. Many factors influence this outcome and the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses’ (AORN’s) newly updated...