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flow. We chose one with disposable
locking tags, because we wanted
AREAS OF
COMPETENCY
Central sterile
staff are tested on
their knowledge
and practices.
them to be standardized, to make
the transition and day-to-day duties
as easy as possible. (When we
expanded, we added another 10 of
these trays to accommodate the
extra volume.)
3. Try out the space. The longer processing times meant that we had to
reorganize the physical setup of
equipment correctly.
to
2. Provides for the safety of oneself and
other members of the
healthcare team.
central sterile to ensure optimal
turnover of clean instrumentation.
As a result of testing things out and
talking with staff, we added a passthrough window at which OR staff
Administrative Functions
d
1. Participates as a team member.
in
al
2. Demonstrates cost-effectiveness by
completing charges accurately and
using supplies appropriately.
— Nancy Lord, RN, BSN
retrieve clean instruments. (We also
added 2 steam sterilizers when
undergoing the 2-OR expansion in
2008.) When we in-serviced staff on
the new decontamination and sterilization policies, we put them
through the paces in the actual
soiled utility and sterile processing
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