Staff Retention in SPD: 3 Strategies for Keeping Your Best People

STAFF RETENTION IN SPD: 3 STRATEGIES FOR KEEPING YOUR BEST PEOPLE by Weston “Hank” Balch, CRCST,CIS, CHL As the certification culture continues to gain traction across the Sterile Processing industry, retention of high performing technicians is becoming more and more difficult. Hospital staffing agencies are paying a premium for experienced and credentialed SPD techs, as…

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Making Your Department Survey Ready

MAKING YOUR DEPARTMENT SURVEY READY by Rose Seavey MBA, BS, RN, CNOR, CRCST, CSPDT President/CEO Seavey Healthcare Consulting, LLC Healthcare accreditations surveys, such as those preformed by The Joint Commission (TJC) or The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, focus on safety and quality of patient care. In the last few years, accreditation surveyors have increasingly…

Hiring for SPD

HIRING FOR SPD By Weston “Hank” Balch, CRCST, CIS, CHL I’m going to come right out and state the obvious: great SPD technicians don’t typically come knocking on your door when you need one. The general experience of SPD leaders is that we fight for weeks to get a position approved, only to receive a…

Getting Products Approved For CSS

Damien S. Berg BA, BS, CRCST There are 3 things that continually haunt sterile processing mangers and departments—Staffing, Productivity and Products. This article specifically discusses how to bring new Products into your department. Many health care systems have robust purchasing departments that guard against waste, focus on standardization/compliance, and of course, secure the best price.…

ReadySet Surgical and Microsystems Announce Integration Aimed at Improving Surgical and Sterilization Workflows in Hospitals

ReadySet Surgical and Microsystems have announced the availability of integration capabilities between the two development environments to improve transparency in the surgical supply chain. The combined capabilities will streamline data reciprocity across both systems and provide a seamless platform for Hospital end-users. The direct connection between Microsystems’ SPM® and the ReadySet Loaner Management Platform will…

ReadySet Surgical and oneSOURCE Document Site announce integration aimed at improving the accessibility of sterilization guidelines for Vendor-Managed Surgical Inventory

oneSOURCE and ReadySet Surgical today announced the availability of an integration between the two development environments to improve the end-user experience when accessing case-critical sterilization guidelines. The combined capabilities will streamline exchanges between the oneSOURCE IFU Database and ReadySet Loaner and Consignment Management Platform The direct connection between the oneSOURCE IFU Database and ReadySet’s Loaner…