
14 Courses
Leadership & Management
A storm of staff shortages? It’s more like a hurricane. Finding good staff is one thing, keeping them is another. Join Cody McElroy, Manager of Sterile Processing at University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, and Aaron “Cody” Troutt, Director of Central Sterile at Williamson Medical Center, as they discuss ways to engage and retain staff in during this tumultuous time.
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Leadership & Management
Seeing a tidal wave of case carts. Listening to complaints from the OR. Rushing to process devices. It’s easy to forget the real reason sterile processing exists: The Patient. Join Karen Owens Director of Clinical Education with STERIS, as we celebrate SPD week and are reminded of the WHY behind WHAT we do and how sterile processing makes a difference to the Patient.
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Leadership & Management
Sterilized, complete, and on time...easier said than done. Every sterile processing supervisor/manager strives to reach and maintain this goal, but do you know how consistently it is reached, or areas for improvement? Join Mark Capel (Chief Digital Officer with STERIS) as he translates the data found in workflow systems into actionable quality improvement initiatives.
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Leadership & Management
What’s in your water could be hurting patients. Poor quality water can damage devices, decrease cleaning efficacy, and interfere with disinfection and sterilization. Water may harbor bacteria or endotoxins that can have deadly consequences. Finding water quality issues and starting measures to correct them is a collaborative effort between sterile processing staff and those that maintain the water quality. Learn what makes good quality water and how to implement it for the processing of medical devices.
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Leadership & Management
It’s
another phone call. It’s not the OR yelling about a missing instrument. It’s
not a late loaned instrument set. This time it’s the audit room. The auditor just
asked about a missing biological indicator test result. All three calls may
have been avoided with a good quality management system (QMS), but do you know
what a QMS is? Let us introduce you to Quality Management Systems for the
Sterile Processing Department.
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Leadership & Management
The daily journey of navigating the department's processes and meeting Customer requirements would be daunting if not for quality systems, specifically, quality management systems. A quality management system (QMS) can be viewed as the department's foundation and framework to include instructions, procedures, and resources to support quality management. Over the years, quality systems have matured into applications seeking transparency, reproducibility as well as Customer satisfaction as a result of systematic thinking, auditing and documentation. Today, health care facilities are credentialed by a number of organizations under the watchful eye of the Center for Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). These organizations will review a health care facility's documentation for completeness and observe the processes for which procedures and instructions are documented.
Leadership & Management
Prions are the protein-based, transmissible causative agents of a group of diseases known as transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (or prion diseases). Prion diseases present a unique risk because although they are not considered contagious they can be transmitted between patients via tissues and reusable medical device surfaces because prions are highly resistant to decontamination. Understanding these diseases is important in the development of facility policies to reduce patient and staff risks. Therefore, it is imperative the Sterile Processing Department (SPD), Operating Room and other department’s supporting clinical and surgical interventions understand these diseases when developing policy and procedures for the use and reprocessing of medical devices.
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Leadership & Management
The use of loaned instrumentation varies by each facility, but these days everyone uses loaned trays of some sort, at some time. Proper management and processing of these instruments is critical to patient safety.
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Leadership & Management
Are you interested in cutting the clutter and tidying up your sterile processing tracking system or instrument and set database? Profit from the benefits of a well-managed, clean database. Route out redundancies, inaccuracies, and other data fallacies with reports that make it easy. Include everyday management techniques to keep it clean.
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Leadership & Management
Why wait for a sterilization failure to happen to improve sterilization processes? Quality management systems (QMS) provides proven methods to find and treat potential problems and sterilization failure. This program will show how sterilization failures fit into your department’s QMS.
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Leadership & Management
Join Pamela for a free CE webinar to learn training and education techniques and how technology can help you develop a successful learning program.
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Leadership & Management
In this free CE webinar we discuss survey changes during the COVID-19 pandemic, and identify frequently cited device processing & HLD findings and how you can avoid them.
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Leadership & Management
Moving away from ethylene oxide sterilization in sterile processing may seem complicated and overwhelming. Choosing a different process, confirming devices can be sterilized, safety, training, installation, and quality assurance are just a few considerations. How should a department supervisor move forward with the change? Using a systematic approach to evaluate options and manage the change process can simplify and ease the switch.
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Leadership & Management
Are you positive about your positive pressure rooms? Join Lisa Huber BA, CRCST, CIS, CHL, ACE, FCS, CQIA (Clinical Education Specialist – Midwest Region with STERIS) as she reviews the equipment, processes, and guidelines needed to control the air pressure in your Sterile Processing Department.
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