Healthcare Hygiene magazine November 2019 | Seite 4

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BUILDING BRIDGES BETWEEN INFECTION PREVENTION/EPIDEMIOLOGY,
SCIENTIFIC R&D, MANUFACTURING AND REGULATORY/COMPLIANCE
contents
Columns
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Editor’s Letter
In an Era of Rejecting Facts, Stick to the Science
Education and Training of Frontline Infection
Preventionists

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Infection Prevention
When Prime Directives Collide: The
Survival Wars

By Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM SVCM,
MBCM, FACSc
IAHCSMM Insider for the SPD
12

Newly Revised AORN Guideline on

Actionable Feedback to Drive Meaningful Change

By Paul Alper
Sterile Processing
35

Sterile Processing Recruiting in an Age

of Options: If You Post it, They May Not Come

By Hank Balch
Environmental Hygiene
36

From Wheels Up, To Wheels Down

By J. Darrel Hicks
Healthcare Textiles & Laundry
37

Defining and Measuring ‘Hygienically Clean’

By Carol McLay, DrPH, MPH, RN, CIC, FAPIC
Sterilization Packaging

By Susan Klacik, BS, CRCST, CHL, CIS, ACE, FCS
Features
26 Recent Survey Reveals Reprocessing Challenges
IFUs: The Challenges and Opportunities
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for Compliance

By Kelly M. Pyrek
Challenging
Variation of Hospital Cleaning with
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a Simple Four-Step Protocol

By Kelly M. Pyrek
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By Kathy Warye
Hand Hygiene
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A Checklist to Drive Higher Compliance: Using
By Wava Truscott, PhD, MBA
to You

By Matthew Hardwick, PhD
Under the Microscope
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HAIs: Everything Changes When It Happens

Patient Safety & Quality
33

Is It Time to Rethink Air Quality in the OR?
By Kelly M. Pyrek
Perspectives
vol. 1 no.2
Cover Story
Defining “Clean” in Sterile Processing
14

Patient-Ready Scopes Remain Contaminated

After Reprocessing

By Kelly M. Pyrek
on the cover
Pictured is an endoscope channel that
is contaminated and harboring debris
that can support the growth of biofilms
and transmit infectious organisms to the
patent. Numerous studies have found that
patient-ready endoscopes are anything
but clean; see the cover story beginning
on page 14. Image courtesy of Healthmark
Industries Co.
november 2019 • www.healthcarehygienemagazine.com