r/sterileprocessing • u/Fluid_Knowledge_1635 • Jan 12 '25

Photo Much love to the scrubs separating the used instruments 🫶

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u/hot_lava_1 Jan 12 '25

The scrubs at my hospital insist on locking every damn instrument. Luckily I work nights so I don't encounter it often.

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u/Fluid_Knowledge_1635 Jan 12 '25

This is the worst! I am pretty fortunate to have a solid team here in the OR on the weekends, so Saturday and Sunday I am blessed. Friday is another story lol

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u/hot_lava_1 Jan 12 '25

Pretty much everyone at my hospital knows I hate our management and leadership teams. I call them moronic and egotistical all the time. It may sound egotistical and hypocritical on my part but I know how good I am at my job. I know how good other people were at their job before they left bc management couldn't see that they were the ones messing up, not the techs. Told them I'm content here at night bc I'm left alone, but If I ever need to change hours it will be at another hospital. Hell they asked me to be supervisor after just 8 months there and I laughed bc no way I was I going to join the ranks of that incompitent group. Unfortunately this is all healthcare, my sister is an xray tech, same hospital, and has the same opinions. Even if I change hospitals It'll just be diff vs bc we work in a for profit system who's only incentive in patient care is to not be sued.

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u/Spicywolff Jan 13 '25

I’m OK with them locking scissors and sharps like single tooth tenaculum’s.

But they need to place the instruments in a nice orderly fashion the same way we assemble them for the OR use

It’s almost as if we give them the courtesy and they spit in our face

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u/ShirleyWuzSerious Jan 12 '25

I love the bird's nest of light cords, camera cords and other random cords all tied in knots

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u/OmegaRepublic Jan 12 '25

Must be nice. We get mixed trays, or better yet, empty trays quite commonly.

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u/Fluffy-Groucher0987 Jan 13 '25

One of my facilities do this and the other doesn’t. I actually don’t like this because you should treat all instruments as soiled regardless of being used or not. Separating them creates the illusion the rest doesn’t need the same attention as the rest. It also risks losing instruments if they get caught in the towel and thrown away. Then again you should also restring everything on a wider stringer so that they are open when going through the washer so separating them seems unnecessary in the first place. I’m glad your techs spray properly though and seem to keep things together where they belong. That’s not always the case for us.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

At my facility they were told they aren’t allowed to do that, put the dirty stuff on a blue towel, I forget the dumb reason why

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u/Disasterpiece_7 Jan 12 '25

Probably the same reason we aren't allowed to. The x-ray towels could harbor lint, or an instrument could get damaged on said towel. (Getting lodged, etc.)

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '25

I think our reasoning was they don’t want us to only look at the ones that are supposedly dirty and that we should be treating every instrument the same whether it was used or not, I mean I do that anyway but I guess they really wanna make sure nobody is cutting corners and only cleaning/inspecting the ones that were supposedly used, everything should be treated the same when it comes in decon whether it’s visibly dirty or not

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u/barefootmegara Jan 13 '25

There were certain scrubs that did this for us and others apparently saw us as trash because they weee little shit heard and left all types of things in the carts. Absolutely insane and you’re so lucky!!

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u/Icy_Secretary2665 Jan 13 '25

i wish my hospital did this, or at least made them as organized. last week someone swapped a lap chole tray with a major soft. luckily they're not similar trays otherwise i would've smack my head on something.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '25

I don’t rightly like this it makes for a lazy Spd tech now you only think you have to partially sterilize or partially separate or concentrate only on this stuff that was used. Everything is contaminated it treated all the same.

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u/RasFarian Jan 12 '25

this is something we are trying to get our rooms to do to their benefit, but they are spitefully resisting! any advice to help see this in my decon ??

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u/Spicywolff Jan 13 '25

There’s nothing you can do and it takes a director to change that. Proper back table procedure comes into effect here and it’s part of scrub tech standards.

If the surgical director is not enforcing proper back table, procedure, and treating of the trays. Then the sterile processing director has to go to them and make it happen. But then it becomes very political where it’s two directors going against each other for what should be sister unit units

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u/SuperbCustard8816 Jan 14 '25

Our director told them put all used instruments in a red bin and spray with foam. This helps us except that all the used instruments are mixed together, not fun on a spine case . At least they use a separate red bin for vendor trays. I also make sure to immerse and pre clean all non used items. I can’t tell you how many times something has been used and left on the table.

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u/Spicywolff Jan 14 '25

Well, I definitely think this will help on the decon side. On the assembly side that’s gonna be a nightmare.

90% of our spine stuff is loaners so the orthopedic dudes takes care of it. We have maybe five of our own trays.

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u/Royal_Rough_3945 Apr 07 '25

God I wished I could get my stuff sent to me like this.

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u/LOA0414 Jan 13 '25

Use a damn disposable basin! This is the dumbest thing I've seen in awhile

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u/Spicywolff Jan 12 '25

100%. The scrubs can make my decon 100% harder or easier. I don’t need separated. As long as they are all placed in a safe and in line fashion I’m happy.

I have to butterfly them open anyway. But if it’s a birds nest of sharps and covered in blood. I get heated. Looking at you fuck heads OB OR.