The healthcare supply chain has started embracing advanced digital inventory management systems, especially in the perioperative and procedural areas, where manual processes and...
Enforcing education from the top down and ensuring transparency in staying up to date with training are key for workers who come in contact with sharps
Environmental Services (EVS) teams are imperative to the day-to-day functions of a hospital. Therefore, training and education of EVS teams should be of utmost importance. Sometimes...
U.S. health systems and hospitals continue to be challenged financially and operationally by ongoing staffing shortages, rising equipment and supply costs, growing surgical volumes...
Photo courtesy Dayton Children's Hospital, HPN's 2023 SPD of the Year.
Patient safety is the cornerstone of quality healthcare, and sterile processing (SP) technicians play a crucial role in its delivery. Every patient should expect and receive the...
Recently, several colleagues have asked me if I think healthcare will ever fully adopt unique device identifiers. I can certainly understand their skepticism - after all it has...
Last edition I wrote my editorial about the fine folks in sterile processing. This month, I want to say a few words about those who work in environmental services (EVS). EVS teams...
