How is COVID-19 affecting your department?

How is COVID-19 affecting your department?

April 1, 2020 Quizzes & Polls

COVID-19 is affecting workers in every industry and healthcare is at the frontlines. Things are changing in sterile processing departments across the world and we want to hear your experiences. Please take this short survey and share with us how your department is being affected.

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6 Tips to Achieving Departmental Alignment

6 Tips to Achieving Departmental Alignment

March 6, 2020 Tips

https://vimeo.com/392551960The ability to pull clinical languages together and coordinate real teamwork across OR, SPD, and Supply Chain departments is called “alignment.” Teams who are aligned…

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Poll: Are critical and surgeon preference instruments accurately represented on your count sheets?

Poll: Are critical and surgeon preference instruments accurately represented on your count sheets?

January 13, 2020 Quizzes & Polls

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Poll: Does your OR utilize instrument tracking system reports to facilitate decision making?

Poll: Does your OR utilize instrument tracking system reports to facilitate decision making?

December 9, 2019 Quizzes & Polls

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Whose Work is it Anyway?

Whose Work is it Anyway?

December 7, 2019 Processes

Where the Data is All Made Up & the Productivity Reports Don’t Matter “I had 200% productivity tonight!” – Technician #1 “I only had 30%…

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Improving Communication: The Implementation of a Collaborative SPD/OR Huddle

Improving Communication: The Implementation of a Collaborative SPD/OR Huddle

November 9, 2019 Communication

If you’re a Perioperative leader or a surgery coworker you’ve had the challenges of missing instruments. You arrive at 6:45 in the morning preparing to…

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Customer Spotlight: The Impact of Dirty Data on Your Department

Customer Spotlight: The Impact of Dirty Data on Your Department

October 22, 2019 Spotlight

Facility/Position: Sterile Processing Director of a Large Health Facility in Southern California Q: What is the biggest impact of dirty data on your department? ”For…

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Quiz: The Price Is Right

Quiz: The Price Is Right

October 17, 2019 Quizzes & Polls

Can you guess the average cost for these 10 popular instruments? Test your knowledge and take the quiz!

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Poll: Do you use instrument utilization data to justify OR/SPD budgets?

Poll: Do you use instrument utilization data to justify OR/SPD budgets?

October 16, 2019 Quizzes & Polls

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Definition Series: What is Data Integrity?

Definition Series: What is Data Integrity?

September 30, 2019 Definitions

The first step of understanding Data Integrity and its importance is to define Data and how it applies surgical operations. Data is information in the form of quantities, characters,…

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Quiz: Can you name these surgical instruments?

Quiz: Can you name these surgical instruments?

September 19, 2019 Quizzes & Polls

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Definition Series: What is a Preference Card?

Definition Series: What is a Preference Card?

August 27, 2019 Definitions

Preference cards operate much like a surgical passport. If an instrument tray or surgical supply is not listed on a preference card, it can’t make its way into a…

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