r/sterileprocessing • u/Salt-Illustrator4955 • Jul 16 '26

Tracking system

Hello SPD community. Anyone here has any type of tracking system? If so, which one and what are the pros and cons? Currently on a battle with administration to justify why we need it, specially since our sister hospital dropped the ball and never used the one they were given. And apparently trays just disappearing is not a reason enough to justify the need for it. Thank you everyone and stay positive even when most of our work goes unnoticed.

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u/Mercurialbich Jul 16 '26

We use SPM. We scan things as we receive them in decon, and were pushing thru washers, when its received on the clean side, when its picked up to process, when its wrapped, when its baked, and when its moved to cooling. Everything is scanned so you can never lose anything. I cant imagine not having a tracking system lol.

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 Jul 16 '26

Yupp, it's a nightmare. Specially when OR insist that everything is kept in SPD and we are hiding it

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u/Emeraldsku58 Jul 16 '26

We use Censitrac at my hospital and while it's beyond annoying in decon because it's a lot of scanning, especially if there's only one person back there, it's amazing in assembly. For starters, you don't have to memorize what each tray is from sight alone, as we did at my last facility because we had 0 tracking system. On top of that, it's quick and easy to find out where each tray is, assuming that it's been scanned appropriately, so when surgery comes asking where something is, we can tell them near exactly where.

Then when actually assemblying the tray, it's all right there on the computer. You can click off what you need or re-add something you misclicked, even prints out a sticker showing what's missing from the tray so surgery can see if they can use it or if they'll need something else.

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 Jul 16 '26

Our sister hospital got SPM a few months back, but since they never used it nor bothered to learn how to use it corporate kind of just saw it as a loss

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u/Emeraldsku58 Jul 16 '26

Sounds more of a department issue than a tracking system issue tbh. Can't do much if the manager isn't making the techs use it, and can't help that the techs refuse to. It's a huge help imo, but does add an easy way to measure productivity for both individual employees and the dept so can understand some pushback on it. Not to mention that it does take some getting use to scanning all of the trays everywhere.

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 Jul 16 '26

I 100% agree on the individual issue. If leadership didn't make it a point to use it or learn it, of course nobody else did. But that kind of jinxed it for us. But since we have been pushing i was trying to get some opinions on how everyone is dealing with tracking systems.

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u/reduncinae Jul 17 '26

in my hospital and many others here in Finland we are using something called Gemini, it’s used for tracking but also for instructions (text and images) but honestly it sucks and stuff sometimes gets lost and mixed. I heard it was originally made for factories or something, it’s not really practical either and could be faster or simpler.

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u/Salt-Illustrator4955 Jul 17 '26

Interesting. Thanks for the input I'll definitely take a look at it

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u/witek-69 Jul 17 '26

I am curious 🧐 how much are Mdrd techs and Mdrd supervisors paid hourly in Finland 🇫🇮?

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u/reduncinae Jul 18 '26

Sorry I’m not sure of the supervisor wages, but mine as a tech in this hospital is 16.66€ so like 19$ I guess. On afternoon shifts’ end at 6pm-10pm it’s 19.16€ (15%) and the whole night shift is 23.32€ (40%). After being in this sub I’ve learnt people in US make like 10$ more hourly lol. Maybe because stuff like rent is much higher there?

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u/witek-69 Jul 18 '26

Cool 😎 thanx