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Archive > February, 2012 Vol. XIII, No. 2

Behind Closed Doors

Respect Your Reprocessors

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

Do you treat your instrument reprocessors like restaurant busboys? Sure, they're the ones who clean up our messes, the ones who weed out the broken stuff and the bent stuff, the ones who face the hazard of sharps we've left hidden in pans piled high with instruments. Yet I think we surgical staffers don't give central sterile the tiniest bit of credit where a boatload is way past due.

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