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Archive > November, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 11

Infection Prevention

Rethinking Red Bag Waste

Mark McGraw, Associate Editor

There's much confusion as to what is and isn't red bag waste. A simple rule to follow: "If you can sling it, fling it or wring it, it goes in the red bag." That's courtesy of Margaret Kowalczuk Sherman, RN, director of nursing at the Ambulatory Surgical Pavilion at the Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Brunswick, N.J.

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