Process This Episode 14: Exploring AAMI Standards
In this episode of Process This, IAHCSMM Clinical Educator Susan Klacik joins us to talk about AAMI and her representation of the Sterile Processing community in the standards writing process. She …
Process This Episode 13: A Better Understanding of Steam and Water Quality
Water is one of the most critical components used for cleaning and processing instrumentation; however, many facilities have never tested their steam and do nothing to condition the water for …
Process This Episode 12: All about the Unique Device Identification (UDI)
This episode features guest speaker Jean Sargent who shares insights into the many facets of the unique device identification. This episode also discusses COVID-19 and other viruses and diseases impacting …
Process This Episode 11: Managing Change in Sterile Processing
In this episode of Process This, we’ll discuss a helpful tool that you can access from the IAHCSMM website, highlight articles published in IAHCSMM’s PROCESS magazine, and chat with Natalie Lind, …
Process This Episode 10: In the Face of Disaster
This episode of Process This delves into the hot topic of COVID-19 and provides answers to questions that can be applied to what we know to Sterile Processing. Also, our featured …
Process This Episode 9: Getting to Know Your Infection Preventionist
Join IAHCSMM for episode nine of Process This as Jill Holdsworth, an Infection Preventionist at Emory University Hospital, discusses a new way to look at staffing issues in Sterile Processing and shares …
Process This Episode 8: A Conversation with the ECRI Institute
Episode eight of Process This features Gail Horvath and Scott Lucas of ECRI Institute. Join us as these two experts discuss new FDA recommendations of duodenoscopes and the value of research on …
Process This Episode 7: Water and Its Vital Importance in Sterile Processing
Episode seven of Process This features Walt Deacon, President of Thermo Diagnostics Company, who takes us on a deep conversational dive into the many uses of water — from cleaning and sanitizing …
Process This Episode 6: Point-of-Use Care: We’re All in This Together
Episode six of Process This features IAHCSMM President, Tony Thurmond, and Rose Seavey of Seavey Healthcare Consulting. Thurmond and Seavey discuss process improvement for point-of-use care, and how we all need to …
Process This Episode 5: Using AAMI Standards and AORN Guidelines to Elevate Sterile Processing Practices
Our fifth episode of Process This features one of IAHCSMM’s Clinical Educators, Susan Klacik, who shares valuable information about AAMI standards and AORN guidelines — and how we can use these tools …
Process This Episode 4: Tips for Successful Staff Onboarding
Our fourth episode of Process This features IAHCSMM’s Director of Education, Natalie Lind, who discusses onboarding within the Sterile Processing department, and how we each can play a role in making the …
Process This Episode 3: Sterile Processing on the Global Stage (Our Challenges Are Similar)
In our third episode of Process This, Damien Berg, Immediate Past President of IAHCSMM, and Christine Denis, President of the World Federation of Hospital Sterilisation Sciences (WFHSS), discuss Sterile Processing on …