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W
hy do some of our facilities end up with sterile
processing leaders who have checked out, front-
line staff who have lost their passion and cus-
tomers in the operating room who feel the pain?
There are at least 3 dangerous staffing myths that
can lead facilities to fall into traps.
Weston (Hank) Balch, BS, MDiv, CRCST, CIS, CHL | San Antonio, Texas
• SILENT PARTNERS IN SAFETY Staffers in the central sterile department at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
inspect reprocessed instruments.
3 Dangerous SPD Staffing Myths
It takes a village to raise a reprocessing department.
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