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The Patient-Ready Imperative: Smarter Device Ownership & Greater Clinical Value
Frontline clinicians and the patients they support cannot afford to encounter non-functional instrumentation and equipment in the surgical workflow. So how do your Sterile Processing and Operating Room teams ensure your surgical equipment and instruments are fully functional, safe and consistently perform at the highest level — every surgery, every time?
Joining us for the latest Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight™ is Michael Matthews, MBA, CLSSGB, Director of Customer Training and Education at Agiliti, where he discusses the tremendous resources and creative partnerships available to clinicians to solve common process breakdowns within the OR and SPD. How can data transparency and repair reports lead to less preventable instrument damage? What tools are clinicians using to audit their processes and improve their quality?
Tune in to learn more!
For more information about Agiliti, you can visit agilitihealth.com or follow them on Linkedin at linkedin.com/company/agilitihealth/
#AgilitiHealth #SurgicalInstruments #FlexibleScopes #InstrumentRepair #Education #SterileProcessing #OperatingRoom #Endoscopy
Don’t Just Do Something, Stand There!
On this CE-approved release of Articles On-The-Go, learn about how successful leadership sometimes looks like taking a step back from the daily flurry of activities: “Just as important as your department-wide meetings is scheduling regular time with your leadership team to discuss workflow challenges, shift dynamics, improvement projects, and staff development. The value of having a dedicated opportunity for your leaders to collaborate together without being pulled in a million different directions is hard to overstate. Give your leaders time to think, plan, and grow together on a weekly basis, and they will give you the kind of leadership that makes great teams…”
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The Prerequisites for Quality: Safe Surgery Starts Here
The big parts of instrument safety are kind of obvious. Buy high quality instruments. Treat them well. Thoroughly inspect every time. But what about the million other small things that need to happen to make these big things even possible? What are those critical prerequisites for instrument quality that must occur in our departments to enable our Sterile Processing teams to accomplish our mission for safe surgical care? On this Season 18 “Investing in Instrument Safety,” which is focused on getting our teams the time, money, and support we need to protect our surgical inventory, we sit down with Garrett Hollembeak, SPD & Distribution Manager at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital to chat about how his philosophy of bees impacts his approach to this complex topic. Tune in for this interesting conversation that blends nature’s wisdom with frontline clinical insight that can help your team fight dirty better!
Season 18 episodes are individually approved for 1 CE, so once you finish this interview, you can download your CE certificate immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week.
For access to this CE quiz and over 300 other free CE credits, visit our CE Credit Hub: http://www.beyondclean.net/ce-credit-hub
Peel Pack Storage | Expert Series On-The-Go
On this week’s edition of the Beyond Clean Expert Series On-The-Go, tune in for the conversation entitled, “Peel Pack Storage”. To hear more from this expert, follow us on Facebook and Linkedin, or subscribe to the Beyond Clean mailing list by visiting: https://educate.beyondclean.net/cleanfreaks or text BEYONDCLEAN to 22828
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Until next time, keep fighting dirty!
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The MVPs of Instrument Inspection
If you take a close look around you the next time you’re in the middle of a Sterile Processing department, there are so many things around you that can & should be tested and inspected. What are the most valuable tools out there today that can help you optimize your processes and better protect your patients? On this Beyond Clean Vendor Spotlight™ we talk with Kevin Anderson, Clinical Education Specialist at Healthmark Industries, about the what, why, and how behind the unique solutions their team have brought to market that are changing the way Sterile Processing professionals fight dirty, every instrument, every time. Tune in now to learn how important it is to be checking your pulse flow lumen washers, testing your laparoscopic insulation, and more! If patient safety is your goal, this is a conversation you won’t want to miss!
Visit www.hmark.com for more information or call 1-800-521-6224. Healthmark provides free consultations for enhanced inspection, endoscope reprocessing, Joint Commission preparation, and more.
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#VendorSpotlight #Healthmark #SterileProcessing #Inspection #Borescope #InsulationTesting #LumenChecks #Lumens #EnhancedVisualization #Tools #Reprocessing #Safety #BeyondClean #WeFightDirty #SPD #CS #MDR #SPS #Surgery
Put Your Quality Where Your Tray Is: A Conversation on Excellent QA’ing
Quality assurance in Sterile Processing is more than a process to hardwire instrument safety. Sometimes it’s an actual job description. On this Season 18 premiere of “Investing in Instrument Safety,” a season focused on getting our teams the time, money, and support we need to protect our surgical inventory, we sit down with Valerie Lake, Lead MST and quality assurance advocate, to dive into the details of how quality assurance plays out in a real life setting. Tune in as we take you beyond the labels and buzz words into the practical experience and insight that can help you build a working QA program and role in your own department. From the what, to the why and the how, and everywhere in between — if you’re pursuing quality as a goal in your SPD, make it your goal to catch this episode today!
Season 18 episodes are individually approved for 1 CE, so once you finish this interview, you can download your CE certificate immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week.
For access to this CE quiz and over 300 other free CE credits, visit our CE Credit Hub: http://www.beyondclean.net/ce-credit-hub
