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“Sterile Processing tech- nicians have endured a life-changing endeavor personally and profession- ally with the pandemic,” Rojo expressed. “The cancellation of elective surgeries affected sterile


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processing technicians by being laid off or furloughed, or having unique fluctuat- ing schedules. The processing of surgical masks, being runners for medical equip- ment, and other added new tasks, like helping with patients on the nursing floor, were other changes in the world of the sterile processing department during the pandemic.” M Health Fairview’s CSSD team, con- sequently, extended their support to one another in their department, notes Ferrer. “Some time ago, we had implemented an orientation for all of the team members to be cross trained on all of our major functions within our area,” she explained. s our staffing fluctuated throughout the last year, the cross training has benefited when assignments had to be rearranged to meet the workflow. It has been difficult managing ongoing department education with other priorities trumping our focus.”


Training, education, protection In their current positions, what do SD technicians need to achieve best standards, practices and outcomes?


“Two of the greatest needs of SPD techni- cians are access to information and timely and coherent education,” Czarnowski rec- ommended. “Front-line technicians need to have Is readily available to them in real time, so that when they are perform- ing their part of the reprocessing cycle on an instrument, they can quickly and easily understand their instructions and promote the safety of their patients.”


He continued, “When a new instrument is ordered by a facility, technicians must be thoroughly trained in the reprocess- ing steps for the instrumentation, both in a clear way and in a timely manner, before the instrumentation will be used in a procedure, so that they may clean and sterilize the instrumentation in a way that is safe for the facilities’ investment and for their patients.” In terms of adapting to temporary work


environments, SPD staff should have a seat at the planning table, suggests Janet Lumbra, Director of Business Develop- ment, mmic Medical Systems. It is mmics experience that SD proects conducted in our temporary facilities are most successful when engaging the sterile processing staff in the planning process for


use of the temporary facility,” Lumbra indicated. “They know what to expect in the fixed facility, so they are best equipped to transfer that knowledge to plan the move to the temporary facility. Staff training on equipment, along with the sterile processing equip- ments instructions for use I and familiarization with the temporary facilitys workflow, assure their buy in’ to achieve overall project success.”


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