Oct 4, 2022 | Author: Hank Balch, Featured, Sterile Processing, The Front Line
Across all of your department’s surgical customers—the operating room nurse, the surgical technologist, the nurse manager, clinic leaders—who is most often at the head of the line on their way down to sterile processing when things miss the mark in terms of quality?... 
Sep 13, 2022 | Author: Sarah B. Cruz, CSPDT, CRCST, CHL, CSSNerd, Featured, Sterile Processing
Listen, we all know studying is important. We have the book and a study guide, and maybe we’ve even taken a practice quiz or two. We want to pass our certification exams. We know why it is important to us. Yet thinking about this makes the situation worse rather than... 
Aug 30, 2022 | Author: Mary Olivera, Featured, Sterile Processing
In the past few years, sterile processing (SP) has evolved into a department with the latest technology to help with laborious tasks, new certification requirements, and continuing education mandates. Those of us who have been in the sterile processing field for many... 
Jul 19, 2022 | Author: Rebecca Kinney, Featured, Sterile Processing
In the past year, so many sterile processing (SP) leaders have stepped out and up to express their voices. They’ve done this on social media, at conferences, and in publications just like this. It’s a beautiful thing to see the industry elevated to new heights. For... 
Jul 5, 2022 | Author: Sarah B. Cruz, CSPDT, CRCST, CHL, CSSNerd, Featured, Sterile Processing
“It must be nice” is a phrase too commonly heard along the sterile processing professional development journey. While the purpose of this expression is an attempt to make one feel ashamed of something that is coming to fruition, it speaks more clearly of the...
