05/01/2023

All Hands on Decon: Our Glorious Gloves

The gauntlet has officially been thrown down! In the hands-on field of sterile processing, it’s gloves on for the fight against pathogens, punctures, and potential safety hazards.    Season 20 of the Beyond Clean podcast, "Armed & (Compliantly) Dangerous," is all about personal protective equipment (PPE), and in this episode Randalyn Walters, Clinical Education Manager for Belimed, steps in the ring to lay out what you need to know about gloves. Join us as we take on both sides of one of the most hotly debated topics in sterile processing and outline the OSHA guidelines for keeping you and your team safe. Randalyn shares her experience as both a sterile processing leader and a frontline technician in addressing skin irritation from gloves, proper donning and doffing practices, and the dealing with the dreaded waterlogged gloves. It’s a can’t miss episode on this season of Beyond Clean.    Season 20 of Beyond Clean released under the 1 Episode = 1 CE delivery model, so once you finish this interview, you can get your 1 CE credit immediately by passing the short quiz linked below each week.       For access to this CE quiz and over 350 other free CE credit, visit our CE Credit Hub at beyondclean.net/ce-credit-hub