Continuing Education Articles
On the Hunt for Missing Instruments to Save Time, Money, and Resources
Objectives:
- Identify what areas you should focus on to solve missing instrument problems.
- Learn from other sterile processing professionals about...
An Open Conversation About Productivity and Efficiency in Sterile Processing
Objectives:
1. Discuss challenges to measure productivity in sterile processing departments. 2. Learn 5 ways SPDs can improve productivity and...
Cracking the Code: Finding, Hiring, and Maintaining Top Talent for SPD
Objectives:
1. Learn how to overcome hiring obstacles. 2. Discuss interview practices to determine optimal candidates. 3. Learn how to keep employees...
Motivating the Unproductive Technician: How to Keep Productivity High in Sterile Processing Departments
Objectives:
1. Determine what exactly an unproductive technician is. 2. Learn what creates an unproductive SPD tech. 3. How to engage an unproductive...
Productivity and Quality: A Match Made in Reprocessing Heaven
Objectives:
- Understanding the clinical benefits of quality and quantity.
- Improving quality and quantity by creating SPD efficiencies.
- Connecting...
Work Smarter, Not Harder: Doing More With the Resources You Have
Objectives:
- Learn how SPDs can overcome limited resources to produce quality instrumentation.
- Discover how to implement small process changes that...
Knowing Your Numbers: How to Become a Data-Driven SPD
Objectives:
- Leveraging your data to see the bigger picture in SPD management.
2. Using an instrument tracking system to improve training and...
Ensuring Patient Safety: The Crucial Role of Documentation in the Sterile Processing Department
Objectives:
- Identify what areas you could focus on for a Joint Commission Survey.
- Learn key guidelines to get prepared for accreditation surveys.
- ...
Maximizing ROI: Why a Usage-Based Maintenance Plan Supports SPDs
Objectives:
- Learn how to develop a preventative maintenance program tailored to specific SPD needs.
- Understand how to use preventative maintenance...
Why Hospitals and Vendors Turn to LoanerLink to Improve Communications
Objectives:
- Understand the basics of LoanerLink and how it can better serve your organization.
- Recognize the benefits of using LoanerLink,...
The People & Patients Behind the Great Productivity vs. Quality Debate
Objectives:
- Learn about how productivity & quality relate to each other.
- Identify reasons why productivity is undervalued.
- Understand the impact of...
How to Hack Your Reporting Strategy
Objectives:
- Learn Censis solution reporting organization and functionality.
- Discuss common sterile processing and perioperative metrics captured and...
How Social Media Can Benefit SPD Professionals
Objectives:
- Distinguish between appropriate and inappropriate use of social media.
- Recognize the skill enhancing benefits of social media and other...
How Instrument Tracking Software Helps You Prepare for Your Next Survey
Objectives:
- Use CensiTrac for completely paperless load records across all reprocessing modalities.
- Use CensiTrac’s Efficiency Task workflow to...
Planning Ahead: Instrument marking and creating a plan to commission them into your system
Objectives:
- Understand the benefits of marking surgical instrumentation.
- Identify the importance of commissioning marked surgical instruments into a...
Spring Cleaning: How to Effectively Maintain Washer Compliance
Objectives:
- Learn how to effectively document cleaning steps in SPD.
- Identify ways to maintain washer compliance through regular maintenance and...
The Circle of Loaners – Managing Loaner Sets Effectively from Check-In to Check-Out
Objectives:
- Learn what loaner and consignment sets are.
- Identify how to effectively track and manage loaner sets in your facility.
- Understand how to...
Assessment Readiness: How a Clinical Eye Can Prepare You for Future Assessments
Objectives:
- Understand why it’s important to prepare every day for an assessment.
- Identify common assessment discoveries.
- Learn how a CensiTrac...
Creative Competency Strategies to Hardware Technician Excellence
Objectives:
- Learn the definition of sterile processing competencies.
- Understand the importance of competency reinforcement throughout the year.
- ...
Can Instrument Tracking Data Be a Resume Gold Mine for your Career?
Objectives:
- Understand the recruiting challenges sterile processing departments are facing today.
- Learn how real department data can improve a...
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