It takes a team to ensure surgical instruments are clean, sterile and ready for surgery....

Like many hospitals across the country, The Valley Hospital in Paramus, N.J., experienced a period of low staffing in its sterile processing department (SPD)...

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Want to improve communication and collaboration among different staff members and departments?...

For the last six years, I’ve had the privilege of working at Immersive Design Systems (IDS) at Boston Children’s Hospital....

Departments looking to foster professional development will often decide to start a journal club. But these departments tend to struggle with where to begin....

We’ve featured quite a few escape rooms over the years, focusing mostly on the camaraderie and fun they provide as staff education and training exercises....

When staff education gets stale or boring, engagement falters and compliance often declines....

Surgical items are left in patients more frequently than you might think....

It wasn’t until the caregiver team was debriefing that Connie Schwendeman, MSN, RN, CPAN, NPD-BC, began to relax. Ms. Schwendeman, a corporate learning consultant...

When Tabitha Hoffman, MSN, RN, RNC-OB, NPD-BC, recently spoke with the five-person central sterile processing (CSP) staff at WellSpan Health Apple Hill Surgical Center...