To help celebrate National Surgical Technologists Week, featured guest and IAHCSMM Education Director Natalie Lind flips the script and interviews our regular host, Jon Wood. This conversation gives us insight into the professional path Wood took to bring him to the Sterile Processing (SP) profession. He discusses the twists and turns he encountered along the way, his curiosity that advanced his SP career, and his thoughts on what makes a better SP technician.

The What’s on my Mind? segment addresses water quality, with Wood giving us a wake-up call about the possibilities of water chemistry quality posing a risk to patient safety in the OR and can cause our healthcare facilities to shut down as a result. Mailbox Mania examines the publication, The Surgical Technologist, with Wood reviewing articles regarding the tools needed for hip replacement, as well as a review on lung resection with regard to robotic assisted procedures and how these studies relate to Sterile Processing production.

This podcast episode has reached its 2 year mark and no longer available to receive CE credit.