Environment of Care

The responsibility of regulatory compliance within the environment of care is usually on an administrator or a compliance officer. But in many facilities, it falls on the shoulders of nurses. We’ve spoken with Kristy Norman, Director of Nursing at Surgecenter of Louisville, a 4 OR and 1 PR surgery center, about handling it all. Kristy, …

The entire Sterile Processing Department depends on precisely following a multitude of processes and procedures that must be carefully documented. These documents play an important role when it comes to the survey preparation or identifying a sterilization cycle record for the failed sterilizer load. Paper Sterile Processing Records are: Difficult to trace Not centralized Susceptible …