HEALTHCARE SELF-STUDY SERIES N
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June 2021 The self-study lesson on this central service topic was developed by 3M Health Care. The lessons are administered by Endeavor Healthcare Media.
Earn CEUs After careful study of the lesson, complete the examination at the end of this section. Mail the completed test and scoring fee to Healthcare Purchasing News for grading. We will notify you if you have a passing score of 70% or higher, and you will receive a certifi cate of completion within 30 days. Previous lessons are available at
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Certifi cation The CBSPD (Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution) has pre-approved this in-service for one (1) contact hour for a period of fi ve (5) years from the date of original publica- tion. Successful completion of the lesson and post-test must
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LEARNING OBJECTIVES
1. Describe what a process improvement plan is and how it can successfully be implemented in SPD.
2. Discuss the Defi ne, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control (DMAIC) project completed in an SPD.
3. Describe an actual process improvement project.
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CSSD/SPD process
improvement projects Planning facilitates successful implementation by Sharon Greene-Golden, BA, CRCST, CER
areas of hospitals and surgery centers, how we manage our data and true facts of the many processes performed have become paramount. We can no longer give random information and numbers to the infection control professionals; we must have data to quantify our reports. It has become impor- tant to successfully show improvement and that can be achieved through the imple- mentation of process improvement plans. Effective process improvement plans
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focus on the needs of the department while considering the attributes of a process and how the end-user will be able to value that information. A process improvement plan can identify the attributes of low-or-no- value processes and remove those, thus enhancing the data derived from the plan. A process improvement plan can eliminate
s Sterile Processing & Distribution (SPD) departments all over the world evolve as one of the most key
wasted efforts, improve efficiency and quality, help meet regulatory compliance requirements and minimize process com- pletion time. Improvement plans allow the SPD department to work on ways to better maneuver their resources and time
management.Striving for improvement involves some type of measurement to identify whether your efforts will achieve specifi c target outcomes. There are many areas and processes in the SPD depart- ment that give way to being targets for improvements. Process improvement plans can allow you to have more account- ability and data for the work being pro- vided in the department as an ongoing process. In the SPD department, you can measure with graphs the immediate use steam sterilization, tray errors, cart picking errors, tray preparation time, instrument loss, cleaning of equipment parameters, and this list can go on.
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