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| INSIDE THE CURRENT ISSUE | ||
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For supply chain managers, the popular movie catchphrases "follow the money" and "show me the money" serve as mantras for budgeting and contract negotiations. As the economy teeters on the precipice of some semblance of recovery, those phrases, which bookended two decades, evoke the C-suite’s mindset and their edicts to supply chain professionals nationwide. |
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Surgical suite storage needs strategic touch Does the supply storage area of your operating room resemble something that could be profiled on the cable television show "Hoarders"? If OR staff can’t, at a glance, look at their inventory and see what they need when they need it, they’re about to face some tense situations with supply chain management. |
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President Clinton may have signed the monumental Needlestick Safety and Prevention Act a decade ago, but sharps injuries continue to occur at a rate of more than 300,000 a year. While no one discounts how this law fundamentally impacted and improved the safety of nurses and healthcare workers nationwide, it’s important to look back at where we were, how far we have come and what still needs to be done. On our agenda: Eliminating the (still) current threat of needlestick injuries |
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Sterile processing professionals should know that effective sterilization is the most critically important role they play, and that reaching that goal takes a systematic approach and an ongoing commitment to ensure that safe, effective processes are consistently followed for each and every instrument set. Reprocess SUDs? Placement of ultrasonic washer? QA for residual soil?
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Supply chain offers constructive criticism Talk to supply chain managers about their fervent wishes for construction projects and the most likely list topper will be participation – way earlier on. Involving supply chain managers at the get-go, if not during the planning stages, may help the facility elude some traditional hiccups in the process, some of which may not be discovered until long after the contractors skedaddle. Supply chain’s simple, but everlasting constructive goals Ridding building projects of pesty visitors |
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Fast Foreward
Newsmaker Having My Say by MJ Wylie Back Talk |
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