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SPD personnel must follow these written manufacturer instructions for cleaning and sterilizing medical devices.
What are Instructions for Use (IFUs)
This agency regulates environmental disinfectants, air emissions, and water pollutants under acts like the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act.
What is the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)?
SPD technicians are responsible for cleaning, decontaminating, and sterilizing these items for safe patient care.
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What are medical and surgical devices?
This act requires healthcare facilities to protect the confidentiality and security of patient information.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)?
This term refers to established norms determined by opinion, authority, reserach or theories......AAMI knows best
What is a standard
This term refers to how staff and visitors move through the SPD to prevent cross-contamination.
What is people flow?
This organization regulates medical devices and requires manufacturers to provide Instructions for Use (IFUs) for device cleaning and sterilization.
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This term refers to the manufacturer’s process of establishing that a device consistently meets its intended specifications.
What is validation?
This term refers to the discipline that deals with what is good and bad, as well as moral duty and obligation.
What is ethics?
This term refers to statements of sound principles of practice that are based on scientific data and the opinions of experts
What are recommended practices
Before entering the clean area of the SPD, technicians must remove all of this protective gear and wash their hands.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
This federal organization publishes infection control standards and guidelines but is not a regulatory agency.
What is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?
Devices in this Spaulding category must be sterile at the time of use because they enter sterile body tissues or the vascular system.
What are critical devices?
This ethical issue arises when healthcare workers fail to report noncompliance with reprocessing protocols or PPE use.
What is employee safety?
This part of the cell allows food molecules to be received, processed, and used
Cytoplasm
This term refers to how work progresses from soiled items to sterile items within the SPD.
What is workflow?
This agency enforces workplace safety standards, including regulations on chemical exposure and bloodborne pathogens.
What is the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)?
Before entering the clean area of the SPD, technicians must remove all of this protective gear and wash their hands.
What is personal protective equipment (PPE)?
Policies define what must be done, while these documents outline the steps needed to comply with the policy.
What are procedures?
It is in this layer that hair, sebaceous glands, sweat glands, and nails develop
What is the Epidermis Layer
SPD technicians must participate in training and certification programs offered by organizations such as IAHCSMM and this board.
What is the Certification Board for Sterile Processing and Distribution (CBSPD)?
This organization accredits healthcare facilities and conducts inspections to ensure compliance with safety and quality standards.
What is The Joint Commission (TJC)?
When IFU instructions differ between the sterilizer manufacturer and the device manufacturer, this set of instructions should be followed.
What is the device manufacturer’s IFU?
A technician rushes through instrument inspection because “the OR is waiting.” This compromises this primary responsibility.
Patient Safety
Sensory nerves and blood vessels are located in this layer.
What is the dermis?