Classic CJD is a human prion disease, what is your policy in Sterile Processing?
"Managers obstruct the adoption of anti-bullying policies, at least in part, due to their anxiety that such a policy would limit their actions"-Stern, 2021.
Nurses issued respirators without fit test, Post COVID Care Centers help people with lingering symptoms, FDA approves a robot for spine surgery and surgery centers are performing total knee surgeries.
SP is a noisy place, and over time we get use to the noise. Sometimes we ignore the noise. On this episode I talk about alarms that we ignore and devices that we may not have checked lately.
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A Dr. in New York allegedly prescribed a lethal mix of opioids and other controlled substances that resulted in the overdose death of a patient. A Urologists performed procedures to remove kidney stones when there were no kidney stones present in the patients. A patient received a COVID lung, dies.
We work with chemicals as a part of our daily task, it is important for us to be able to quickly identify hazards. Off-site sterilization will bring new opportunities to surgery centers. Infection rates effect Medicare payments.
Closed hospitals, rolling blackouts and limited water supplies. How is our Sterile Processing community managing?
OSHA has changes due Biden's executive order. One patient died from Medtronic's stent.
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From child pornography to pain killers.
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