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Managing Contracted Services

Managing Contracted Services

Can your patients tell the difference when they interact with your direct employee versus someone from an agency? Does your staff feel a difference? Do your metrics show a variance based on who provides a service? Whether support or direct care staff, outsourced services must follow your policies and procedures and be held to the same high standards as the rest of your team. 

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Heat Sterilization Processes: Application to Medical Devices

Heat Sterilization Processes: Application to Medical Devices

The items that can affect the energy transfer are “wet” steam (i.e., too much condensed water in the steam usually caused by contamination in the steam) or steam that is superheated (steam that is too dry because it has been heated beyond its saturation point) creating a dry heat process. Both can result in a lack of sterilization.

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