Live Conversation on Friday, April 12th at 2PM ET

Maximizing Your Experience at the HSPA Annual Meeting

We will discuss strategic networking at the HSPA Annual Meeting and beyond. The formal education at the conference is valuable but the conversations with fellow technicians, suppliers, and other industry allies make the conference the best opportunity for professional growth each year!

Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and elevate your networking skills as a Sterile Processing Technician. Register now for an enriching experience at Propper Academy Connects.

Discover the essentials of achieving excellence in Sterile Processing—a critical aspect of patient safety gaining increased attention from surveyors, healthcare administrators, and legislators nationwide. This presentation is an interactive exploration, challenging you to identify the top 20 commonly overlooked issues within the Sterile Processing Department. Join us to enhance your understanding of industry best practices and sharpen your analytical skills alongside Infection Preventionist peers. Uncover these key issues for improved operational efficiency and elevated standards in patient care.

Objectives:

• Identify and recall the key industry best practices in Sterile Processing.
• Explain the increasing importance of instrument reprocessing in healthcare facilities.
• Propose solutions for enhancing operational efficiency in response to identified issues.
• Analyze the implications of overlooked issues in Sterile Processing on survey reports and healthcare administration.
• Develop a comprehensive plan for addressing and preventing commonly overlooked issues in Sterile Processing.

This course is approved to receive 1.0 CE from CBSPD and HSPA.

If it’s not clean, it can’t be sterile…right? Even though this industry mantra is widely shared and discussed, there is an aspect of the discussion that is ripe for further consideration. While the industry has been rapidly moving toward more and more adoption of monitoring every sterilization load with a biological indicator (BI), the same cannot be said of process monitoring for our mechanical washers and disinfectors. While daily monitoring of mechanical washers with process challenge devices (PCDs) is common practice in Sterile Processing departments, what happens when a failure is detected? What should happen? And why are we not testing every washer load the way we test our steam sterilization loads? This presentation hopes to provide a catalyst for this important industry conversation.

Objectives:

• Discuss the purpose and requirements of processing monitoring for mechanical washers and disinfectors.
• Compare the process monitoring practices of biological indicators (BIs) and cleaning PCDs.
• Outline how the current industry conversations intersect around questions of cleaning, monitoring, and failure responses.
• Describe steps users can take to build robust quality monitoring processes into their decontamination workflow, training, and competencies.

This course is approved to receive 1.0 CE from CBSPD and HSPA.