Process This Episode 31: Validation and Verification
In episode 31, our featured guest, Alpa Patel, BS, RM discusses the months-long processes of validation and verification on a variety of equipment – as well as the types of …
Process This Episode 28: Shifting the Decontamination Stigma
In episode 28, we explore the challenges and common negative perception of the Sterile Processing decontamination area. Our featured guest, Megan Pietura, explains how teamwork, interdepartmental partnerships and peer-to-peer recognition …
Process This Episode 27: Power of Proactive and Comprehensive Instrument Maintenance Programs
Episode 27 explores the benefits of comprehensive preventative maintenance and routine care programs for instrument sets. Our guests Kevin McLaughlin and Randy Stanton from Northfield Medical discuss why it’s essential to adopt a proactive rather than …
Process This Episode 18: The Ebb and Flow of Water Quality
This Process This episode is all about water. Our featured guest, Brian Flannigan, reviews how often should we test our water, where we should find those water sources, and what we should …
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 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 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 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 …