Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
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By: OSD Staff
Published: 10/6/2015
SHARPS SAFETY
Orange Mats Also Create Sterile Processing Safe Zone
Once the case is over, do you toss away those bright orange mats used to designate a neutral zone for the hands-free transfer of sharps? We found another use for them: to alert our sterile processing staff to the presence of sharps. We place knife handles, hooks, drill bits and all other sharps atop the orange mat so that our SPD staff know right away there are sharps in the decontamination tray.
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