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

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OSE_1401_part2_Layout 1 1/3/14 10:48 AM Page 96 SCRUB IN The right sized brushes are a must for different sized lumens and channels. A manager's guide to successful reprocessing. S everal of the biggest medical malpractice headlines in recent years have involved the improper reprocessing of flexible endoscopes. The thorough manual cleaning, decontamination and high-level disinfection of these complex instruments is critical to infection prevention and patient safety, but there's a lot of room for error in the process. These 4 pointers can help you manage your reprocessing staff to ensure they're delivering the cleanest possible scopes to your endo cases. 9 6 O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | J A N U A R Y 2014 Pamela Bevelhymer, RN, BSN R E P R O C E S S I N G

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