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Melt Your Job Stress Away - January 2014 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Page 103 R E P R O C E S S I N G sheathed gastroscope is safe and effective in clinical practice, according to a report published in the Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology last month. After a head-to-head comparison of the singleuse device against a conventional endoscope among more than 1,000 patients, they found the new device effective in preventing cross-contamination and reducing reprocessing time, and noted no significant differences in patient discomfort, optical clarity or pathology detection rate. — Compiled by David Bernard provide similar results when dipped into water that's been poured sterile through the channel and collected in a sterile basin. Listen up Don't take your sterile processing department for granted. Listen to what your employees there have to say. Their complaints may provide solutions. If, for example, your scope reprocessing techs have mentioned more than once that they feel rushed by the schedule's turnaround demands and often don't have time to complete their tasks properly, take the time to observe them at work. If their complaints are justified, consider hiring more employees, cross-training other employees to lend a hand when time and staffing are tight, or rethinking the schedule. OSM Ms. Swanson (kswanso@connecticutchildrens.org) chairs the board of directors of the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD) and is the sterile processing team leader at Connecticut Children's Medical Center in Hartford.

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