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all aspects of the new policy and work
out the kinks before we put it into
practice.
1. Test your employees. As part of our
policy and procedure revamp, we created a competency checklist for all personnel involved with instrumentation
processing (see "Put Your Central
Sterile Staff to the Test"). New employees must complete an initial skills
checklist and be assigned to a preceptor
for orientation and training. No employee will be alone in any job task until the
proper training is documented and an
error-free return demonstration is
observed.
2. Trial the equipment. When we transitioned, we also had to choose new
closed containers for steam sterilizing
wrapped instruments. We asked 4 companies to let us demo their trays. We
were able to load up sample trays, use
them in practice and determine how
they would fit our instrument sets and
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