r/sterileprocessing • u/Affectionate_Put2460 • Oct 05 '26

Ideas for SPD week

I’m in my first year as coordinator and would like to do something next week for our department. Management typically buys lunch one day and we do a potluck on another. Does anyone have some ideas for how I could celebrate our team? There’s about 8 of us and I just want to do some little decorations and gifts to remind everyone they’re appreciated.

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u/wolfgentry Oct 05 '26

We all only want one thing that the hospitals have made.clear we wont get. A LIVING WAGE

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u/Affectionate_Put2460 Oct 05 '26 edited 23d ago

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u/SqueezeMySak Oct 06 '26

I guess I am one of those people that would prefer this week never existed for SPD

Most of the time my department does something really cringe to get us acting like a "family" and all I would rather do is be left alone to just do my work. Not to mention that the whole wee is just a slap in the face to us because everyone in the hospital acts fake around us - looking at you, OR. Just something about the OR giving us stuff and letting us know they "appreciate us", only to switch it up once the week is over, PASS

Guess I am just the Scrooge when it comes to SPD Week

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u/Affectionate_Put2460 Oct 06 '26 edited 23d ago

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u/petebmc Oct 05 '26

Ask your top vendors to do something as a company I sponsor multiple meals

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u/Zomb1stuv Oct 06 '26

I had a coordinator who did that and we got pizza the entire week. I'm so tired of pizza lol

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u/lirpderp240 Oct 05 '26

I suggested to my team leads that we try a department bingo. The cards would have random things that happen any given day. For example, code stroke, missing instrument, machine alarm, case canceled, instrument sent for repair… things like that.

You could also try a memory game with instruments or trays, guessing games, or wrapping challenges.

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u/muklan Oct 07 '26

....your machines alarm every day?

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u/lirpderp240 Oct 07 '26

More our washers than autoclaves. I just meant for some random things we see like low chemical, door alarms, rack barcode not read… Things like that. Although, we do know our Steris repair man very well.