Process This Episode 29: 2020, A Year in Review, Part 1
Episode 29 finds our host Jon Wood taking a look back at 2020: the highs and the lows, challenges and change in our podcasts, and our lives. He provides quick …
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 26: Chemical Disinfection Challenges and Choices, Part 2
This episode continues our conversation with guest speaker Peggy Spitzer of Certol International. She discusses chemical disinfection and its role in infection control and prevention, while emphasizing the challenges of “human factors” …
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 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 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 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 …