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Archive >  Infection Control 2009

7 Steps to Better Prepping

Remove barriers to compliance and arm your staff with the skills they need to effectively prep patients' skin for surgery.

Ruth Carrico, PhD, RN, CIC

It's a phone call you never want to get. A patient who was recently operated on at your facility has developed a surgical site infection. How did it happen? Was it a lapse in your surgical prepping practices? With something as routine as prepping, it's easy for inefficiencies and missteps to creep into everyday practice. Follow these 7 steps to ensure that every patient is prepped correctly, every time.

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