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Best Practice Tools

Best Practice Tools

This page features documents of detailed manufacturer instructions for the routine care and maintenance of endoscopes and accessories. You can also find scope reprocessing “Cliffs Notes” instructions. Just click on the downward arrow to open the content in each section.

Other Toolkit Resources:

Disinfectant Log
Reprocessing Error
Process Checklist
Champions Tools
Outpatient
Terminal Clean
Additional Tools
Infection Prevention Consortium Members

 

Disinfectant Log

 

The following samples are for disinfection monitoring. Click on each link to download the template.

 

Reprocessing Error

 

The following document isfor reporting a reprocessing error. Click on the link to download the template.

  Reprocessing Error and Event Reporting

 

Process Checklists

 

The following samples are for creating process checklists. Click on each link to download the template.

 

 

Champion Tools



The following additional documents are developing proper processes. Click on each link to download the template.

 

 

Outpatient


The following documents detail Infection Prevention in an outpatient setting. Click on each link to download.

 

Terminal Clean

The following information is regarding terminal cleaning of procedure rooms and prep recovery bays.

 

Additional Tools

The following additional documents are developing proper processes. Click on each link to download the template.

Infection Prevention Consortium Members

 

American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing  
American Board of Certification for Gastroenterology Nurses 
American Gastroenterological Association
American Society for Gastrointestinal Endoscopy
ASP/ Johnson & Johnson 
Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology
Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation
Association of periOperative Registered Nurses
Certification Board for Sterile Processing & Distribution, Inc.
Custom Ultrasonics, Inc. 
EndoChoice, Inc.
Fujifilm Medical Systems USA - Endoscopy Division
IMS 
International Association of Healthcare Central Service Material Management
Medivators
Metrex Research
Olympus America, Inc.
PENTAX Medical Company 
The Ruhof Corporation 
Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 
Society of Gastroenterology Nurses and Associates (SGNA) 
STERIS Corporation 
US Endoscopy
Veteran Affairs Medical Center

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