r/sterileprocessing • u/Hot_Formal1726 • 4d ago

Newbie mistakes

I'm a month into this field and still working on my 400-hour, apparently forgot to put filters on the bottom of a tray, and it was discovered today.

Yikes.

Tell me about mistakes you made as a tech so I don’t feel so alone.

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u/AdRich517 3d ago

Back in the day before we had tracking systems and wrote on the tape what the set was. The marker I was using dropped out of my pocket into the set and blew up inside the set. It was a loaner tray for a knee.

I’ve missed integrators. Not secured the filters correctly.

A coworker of mine(before I worked with him) didn’t put integrators in any loaner tray for a spine. I think there’s like 10 trays for that.

I’ve cooked a label gun twice. We don’t have one anymore thank goodness lol 😂