Below the Hospital
Below the Hospital
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Garland Grisby is a sterile processing professional with Kaiser Permanente and a longtime volunteer with the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). In Below the Hospital, Garland speaks to the sterile processing techs, standards developers, and clinical educators who make your work possible. Their goal? Make sure that you have the resources you need to do your job.
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The podcast focuses on themes like water quality in sterile processing departments, clinical education advancements, and the challenges of implementing manufacturer instructions for use. Episodes include discussions on ANSI/AAMI ST108 standards and techniques for improving clinical education strategies.
Garland Grisby is a sterile processing professional with Kaiser Permanente and a longtime volunteer with the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI). In Below the Hospital, Garland speaks to the sterile processing techs, standards developers, and clinical educators who make your work possible. Their goal? Make sure that you have the resources you need to do your job.
AAMI recently updated ST58, our guidance document on chemical sterilization and high-level sterilization in health care facilities.
To understand what this means for you in the sterile processing department, Garland-Rhea Grisby spoke to Alpa Patel, Director of Scientific Improvement at Nelson Labs. Find out how the standard has changed, and what it means for training, quality control, and using sterilization modalities like ethylene oxide.
Show Notes:
1. ANSI/AAMI ST58:2024; Chemical sterilization andhigh-level disinfection in health care facilities: https://array.aami.org/doi/book/10.2345/9781570208799
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