As a student ST you are assigned to assist in the clean processing area of the operating room. Your health facility also has a central supply department that has decontamination and sterilization services for the rest of the facility. In your assigned area, you will be asked to assist in assembling instrument trays correctly, ensuring that monitoring systems are in place, and loading the steam sterilizer. Your mentor will run the loads, but you are expected to retrieve and interpret the output data from the system. You will start your work by receiving instruments that have come out of the washer/sterilizer/disinfector. The instruments are in wash trays. They are decontaminated and dry, and your mentor for the day has removed them from the system and placed them in the clean work room. Your work room has files containing the contents of all instrument sets, logs to identify the sterilization loads by their number, the date of the run, and additional space to record which type(s) sterilization monitors were used for the run. 1. List the tasks you must complete up to the point but not including putting the instrument sets together. List small and large details of your tasks.
As a student ST you are assigned to assist in the clean processing area of the operating room. Your health facility also has a central supply department that has decontamination and sterilization services for the rest of the facility. In your assigned area, you will be asked to assist in assembling instrument trays correctly, ensuring that monitoring systems are in place, and loading the steam sterilizer. Your mentor will run the loads, but you are expected to retrieve and interpret the output data from the system. You will start your work by receiving instruments that have come out of the washer/sterilizer/disinfector. The instruments are in wash trays. They are decontaminated and dry, and your mentor for the day has removed them from the system and placed them in the clean work room. Your work room has files containing the contents of all instrument sets, logs to identify the sterilization loads by their number, the date of the run, and additional space to record which type(s) sterilization monitors were used for the run.
1. List the tasks you must complete up to the point but not including putting the instrument sets together. List small and large details of your tasks.
Sterilization is the process of removal of pathogenic micro-organisms from the surfaces of instruments. The instruments should be cleaned of residual matter such as blood, tissue, etc before sterilization.
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