Handbook for Cssd Technicians: Understanding the Basics - Second Edition
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In this second edition, the Handbook for CSSD Technicians: Understanding the Basics offers new or inexperienced CSSD (Central Sterilising Services Department) technicians basic information on what is expected in their line of work.
Building on the foundation provided in the first edition, this book covers relevant terminologies, including Ethos Explained and surgical procedures (e.g. What is robotic surgery?). It explains the differences between and importance of chemical indicators (CI) and biological indicators (BI), and their role in quality assurance (QA).
It is the author’s hope that the new technician will learn more from this book. After all, it’s easier to enjoy your work if you understand why, you are doing it.
About Joan M Losper
Qualifications and Experience
•Independent surveyor for the Council for Healthcare Services Accreditation of Southern Africa (Cohsasa)
•Basic and Advanced CSSD courses (SAFMED)
•Nurse Education (Advanced Adult Education) – UCT, Cape Town
•Nurse Administration – UWC, Cape Town
•Operating Nursing Science (Theatre Diploma)
•Registered Midwife (One-year Diploma)
•Registered Nurse (Three-year Diploma)
Joan M Losper
I am a qualified Operating Theatre nurse who currently specialises in the CSSD of a private hospital. I am in the process of publishing my next book: CSSD Technicians: Know your Instruments. In this book I explain what a few basic instruments are used for during an operation and what to check for in CSSD to ensure its functionality. All instruments in a set must be functional for surgery to continue without interruption.I have also started writing my next book: Managing a CSSD: My Personal Experience. In this book I want to give guidance to the inexperienced manager/supervisor and give tips that assisted me over the past 10 years.Hard copies of my books are available on Amazon.com and Takealot.com
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Handbook for Cssd Technicians - Joan M Losper
Copyright © 2023 Joan M Losper
Published by Joan M Losper at Smashwords
First edition 2023
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Text Description automatically generatedJoan M Losper
To the Technician: About This Book
This book is for all Central Sterilising Services Department (CSSD) technicians, who work hard doing a job that is sometimes unappreciated.
You are remunerated a low salary, because you are regarded as a skilled worker, which means that you are trained on the job to master a set of skills and do not require any tertiary (university) education or previous experience. However, many hospitals require you to have a matric certificate and previous experience before they hire you.
The CSSD technician’s skill set, when mastered, is invaluable to any operating theatre (OT), because without your skills, an operating theatre cannot function, the nursing staff do not have work in operating theatres, surgeons cannot perform surgery and hospitals do not receive revenue from surgical cases.
The operations that surgeons perform involve various disciplines, such as general surgery; gynaecological and orthopaedic surgery; plastic and reconstructive surgery; cardiac and thoracic surgery; ear, nose and throat surgery; and many other disciplines.
This means that a hospital cannot perform any surgical procedures without your skilled contribution.
Technicians, you are needed in the industry and therefore these guidelines, along with all your formal training and in-service training, will assist you in mastering your skills.
Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish!
A book by Rashmi Bansal (Often quoted by Steve Jobs).
THE DECONTAMINATION AND STERILISATION PROCESS – between CSSD and OT
Introduction
The day you decided to work in CSSD, you probably decided to work here because you could not find another job, and because you are not required by certain hospitals to have a matric certificate or previous experience. Some of you do have previous experience, but you will find that your work in your new job will not be the same as it was in your previous job.
Your work will not be the same because no hospital performs the same operations and the layout of the CSSD department will not be the same. How you work will always be different, but why you do the work will remain the same. This is because of the following factors.
i. Micro-organisms grow or multiply in the same environment, which is in warm, moist, and dark conditions. These conditions can be found at home, at someone else’s home or in a hospital.
ii. Micro-organisms are easily transferred. This means that you must dress