Pulling It All Together

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The sterile processing department (SPD) and staff are vital members of your center’s infection prevention program. While often forgotten, they touch every patient that comes through your organization. Understanding and implementing processes for the proper care and handling of instruments and equipment takes a team approach. Everyone from the surgeon to SPD staff play an important role in maintaining surgical/procedural instruments and ensuring a break in the chain of infection by providing clean/disinfected/sterile instruments. Throughout this course, you have heard the hows and whys of achieving the best possible outcomes and decreasing the incidence of surgical site infections. We all want what's best for our patients and our speakers have given us the tools to succeed....