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Manager's Guide to Infection Control FEATURES All skin antiseptics are sterile, right? 3 A Hands-On Approach To Improved Infection Control If you're aiming to minimize SSIs, hand hygiene is an ideal starting point. Thomas Harris, BSN, and Christy Schofield, RN, BSN (wrong) May 2013 | www.outpatientsurgery.net 9 Inside Our Antibiotic Delivery Success We've achieved 100% compliance in selecting the correct medication and delivering it on time. Catherine Rehnert, RN, MSN, and Marian LeCoultre, RN, BSN, CNOR 43 17 3 Sure-Fire Steps to Standardized Preps How we secured frontline buy-in and ensure continued compliance. Sharon L. Butler, MSN, RN 22 Are Your Rooms Really Clean? Validate staff's surface disinfection efforts to find out. Amy Waugh 31 Dealing With Fluid Waste Management's Uncertain Future Aplicare Many healthcare professionals understandably assume that all antiseptics are sterile. This is actually not true. ® The only sterile preoperative skin preparation antiseptics. THE FACTS: The Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC) has stated, "All skin preparation products should be manufactured to be sterile."* Aplicare® provides the only sterile preoperative skin preparation antiseptics suitable for use in the OR. Each product lot is sterilized to a 10-6 assurance level. While many other products have sterile outer packaging, the antiseptic inside the package — arguably the most important component because it touches patients' skin — is not sterilized. ® THE APLICARE DIFFERENCE: For product safety and patient care, enhance your infection prevention program with the only sterile skin antiseptics. To learn which Aplicare® skin antiseptics are sterile and to receive FREE samples, visit www.AplicareSterility.com. *APIC Letter to FDA: Comments to FDA on Antiseptic Patient Preoperative Skin Preparation Products. 2/6/13 1 S O from the makers of S U P P L E Company, 1221 U T PAT I E N CA U R G ©2013 Clorox Professional Products M E N T T O Broadway, Oakland,T 94612. E R Y NI-20459 We're standing behind our recalled direct-to-drain system — for now. Sandy Berreth, RN, BS, MS, CASC M A G A Z I N E | M AY 2013 37 What's Wrong With This Picture? Spot the barrier protection missteps in these real-life photos. Patricia Castellano, RN 7 Keys to Effective Decontamination Steps you can take to avoid breaches in surgical instrument reprocessing. 48 Does Pre-Op Warming Matter? Our QI study found that intraoperative and post-op warming maintain normothermia. Mary Mulvaine, BSN, CNOR, CRNFA 53 Clean or Contaminated? Phenelle Segal, RN, CIC Did an endoscopic solution impair our scope reprocessing? Laura Raio, CFER To Our Readers There's no shortage of guidelines aimed at reducing surgical site infections, but if you're like most readers, you want to know what works in actual practice as your staff does all they can to protect themselves and patients from cross-contamination. That's why this year's Manager's Guide to Infection Control is filled with feedback from the front line and true-life tales of how administrators and managers like you are successfully battling the bacteria, bugs and bioburden that increase infection risks. We hope it proves valuable in your continued push to stamp out SSIs. Cover design by Ethan Anderson M AY 2013 | S U P P L E M E N T TO O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E 2