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North Carolina Association for Hospital Central Service Professionals
Presidents Message
Our
Annual Summer Meeting was a success!!! Anyone
who had the opportunity to make it to our Annual Meeting this year in the HOT
We
covered some great topics & had some fabulous speakers this year, and the
weather was AWSEOME!!!! The
weather has been extremely hot to start this summer off with already!
Please be sure to drink lots of fluids and try to stay cool during these HOT
summer months
still to come! I
just had the Great privilege of going through JCAHO survey!!!!! (June 3 – June
6) Although
they did not come into our department @ CMC Pineville, I was involved with the
Infection Control questions & answer session.
The surveyor was very bright, and interested in each department, as to
what role they played in preventing acquired hospital infections.
She also asked each person @ the session what role does your department
play in Infection Control? Of
course my answer was Infection Control is very important in Sterile Processing
because we have to make certain that we follow all manufacture recommendation on
cleaning and sterilization for all instruments & medical equipment used
throughout our facility to make certain that we are providing each patient with
sterile & or clean instrumentation and or equipment & supplies! We
also have to make certain that we are using Universal Precautions on every piece
of instruments, equipments, and any other packages that come through our
department.
She
also wanted to know if we know our Infection Control Nurse and wanted us to
state their name. She also wanted to know how much in-servicing or education had
been completed with Infection Control being a part of that education and or
training session? Word of advise make sure that you are following the
manufacture recommendation, and that you have all policies & protocols in
place and that you can actual speak to what your policies and protocols say that
you should be doing in reference to patient care / patient safety! Over all we
received a final grade of 94.5 for
our total score!!!! I
would like to take this time to say Thank
You to each one of you for voting me in as your President this 2008 / 2009
year! I am very excited to be
serving as your President. I am
truly looking forward to serving in this role, but also giving back to the
organization while I am serving as your President!
If there is anything that you need from me, please feel free to give me a
call or email me! I will respond
ASAP!!! (Phone
# & email address listed on our web page!) NCAHCSP.org
P.S.
If you haven’t already, please visit our website!
It’s really nice, and it’s there for your use!! I
would also like to encourage each one of you to get involved with your / our
organization! It is truly a great
organization to be a part of! Enjoy
your summer, and I look forward to seeing each one of you @ our summer meeting
on July 25, in Winston 2008
/ 2009 NCAHCSP President This website is currently undergoing major redesign and reconstruction. Please be patient while we make the changes.
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