Novia Strategies, a clinician-owned national healthcare consulting firm, has created a four-page checklist to help hospitals meet sterilization and disinfection practice standards and regulatory requirements related to medical instruments, such as flexible endoscopes.
The items included in the checklist come from hospital- and health system-based best practices, as well as current standards and recommendations from the CDC, CMS, Joint Commission, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses and the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentations.
The checklist covers various aspects of the sterilization and disinfection process, including:
- Reprocessing staff training
- Instructions from the device manufacturer
- Policies and procedures
- New device procurement
- Internal audits
Novia has made the checklist available at no cost to any hospital that requests the tool.
To access the tool, click here.
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