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Archive > September, 2009 Vol. X, No. 9

Infection Prevention

Who's Responsible for Cleaning That?

Judy Ptak, RN, MSN; and Laurie Tostenson, TQAM

A pictorial manual keeps nursing and housekeeping on the same page.
Take a few members of your nursing staff into the OR and start pointing out different pieces of equipment, asking each time, "Who's responsible for cleaning that?" Write down their answers, and repeat the exercise with members of your housekeeping staff. Do their answers match up? If they don't, then some of your equipment, furnishings or surfaces may be overlooked in the cleaning process, potentially putting your patients at risk for exposure to infectious agents.

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