Re-Examine SPD Best Practices With Foresight, Not Hindsight

by Healthcare Purchasing News

PHILADELPHIA, April 26, 2010 -- A survey conducted by Millennium Surgical Corp. asking SPD and OR staff about their greatest challenges to instrument sterilization showed: “A variety of staff members with different levels of sterilization training and experience” is the overwhelming obstacle. [See The Survey Here]

Millennium is offering free instrument reprocessing steps posters to eligible organizations. Developed in partnership with 2008-2010 AORN elected board member Rose Seavey, R.N., the posters contain the critical steps of instrument sterilization as outlined by AORN, ANSI/AAMI, Joint Commission and CDC, and can help serve as compliance reminders.

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