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Jeff-Chat Offers Students An Interprofessional Forum To Discuss Experiences, Danielle Elliot, Md, Scott Schmidt, Md, Claire Hoppenot, Md, Maria Hervada-Page, Mss
Jeff-Chat Offers Students An Interprofessional Forum To Discuss Experiences, Danielle Elliot, Md, Scott Schmidt, Md, Claire Hoppenot, Md, Maria Hervada-Page, Mss
Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)
Feelings of frustration, loss, and exhaustion are common among healthcare workers. Students placed among new experiences and in a dependent learning role are not shielded from these emotions but often experience them differently from other members of the healthcare team. In addition to the systematic and individual support available through TJUH, for the past year and a half Jeff‐ CHAT (Compassion, Humanism, Altruism, Trust) has provided a forum for students to discuss and reflect on difficult emotions and situations.
Six Sigma Methodology Applied To Immediate Use Sterilization At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Beth-Ann Schauer, Mba, Pmp, Ssgb, Lori Szymonowicz, Cpam, Ssgb, Precil Varghese, Pharmd
Six Sigma Methodology Applied To Immediate Use Sterilization At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Beth-Ann Schauer, Mba, Pmp, Ssgb, Lori Szymonowicz, Cpam, Ssgb, Precil Varghese, Pharmd
Collaborative Healthcare: Interprofessional Practice, Education and Evaluation (JCIPE)
Immediate use sterilization, also known as flash sterilization, is an expedited sterilization process used for surgical equipment needed in emergent clinical situations. Immediate use sterilization is a procedure used by Operating Room staff members to sterilize instrumentation on an as needed or just in time basis when instruments needed for a particular case are not immediately available or become contaminated in the course of the case. If instrumentation is not sterilized appropriately, the patient’s safety is possibly put at risk from the potential of surgical site infections. No specific literature data directly correlates immediate use sterilization with surgical site infection. …