AORN nixes home-laundering of scrubs
OSHA Healthcare Connection, March 23, 2010
Last week during its 57th annual meeting, the Association for periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) proposed 10 recommended practices regarding surgical attire.
Included is a recommendation that “surgical attire should be laundered in a health care-approved or accredited laundry facility,” rather than at home.
The recommendations apply to various practice settings such as operating rooms, ambulatory surgery centers, physicians’ offices, cardiac catheterization laboratories, endoscopy suites, radiology departments, and other areas performing invasive procedures, according to AORN.
For more information on the recommendation and the rationale behind it, read “AORN weighs in on laundering surgical scrubs in-house.”
Related Products
-
Hospital Safety Center
Improve compliance with hospital safety standards from The Joint Commission, OSHA, and other regulators with this...
-
Healthcare Life Safety Compliance
Created exclusively for healthcare facility managers, plant operations professionals, and directors of engineering, this...
-
Medical Environment Update
A subscription to Medical Environment Update pays for itself by saving you time sorting through complex regulations and...
-
The Infection Prevention Toolkit: Seven-Minute Solutions for Five IC Hotspots
This DVD provides five, seven -minute segments, that cover the most pressing topics in IC prevention.
-
The Infection Prevention Handbook
The Infection Prevention Handbook is a core training resource that offers practical references to help infection prevention...
Most Popular
- Articles
-
- Differentiate between types of wound debridement
- Complications from immobility by body system
- TJC changing how surveyors evaluate healthcare leadership's attention to safety
- Irked by "preventable" surgical fires, FDA issues alert with recommendations for healthcare professionals
- Don’t forget the three checks in medication administration
- Fracture coding in ICD-10-CM requires greater specificity
- ICD-10-CM coma, stroke codes require more specific documentation
- Note similarities and differences between HCPCS, CPT® codes
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- Practice the six rights of medication administration
- E-mailed
-
- Q&A: Append appropriate modifiers when reporting CPT codes 81002 and 82270
- TJC changing how surveyors evaluate healthcare leadership's attention to safety
- Know when to report uncertain diagnoses
- OB services: Coding inside and outside of the package
- New malnutrition criteria could help ensure consistent coding
- Irked by "preventable" surgical fires, FDA issues alert with recommendations for healthcare professionals
- ICD-10 challenges in the neonatal world
- How to respect cultural differences in patient care
- Determining core versus non-core privileges
- Coding Clinic for CDI:Reassessing debridement documentation
- Searched