Sterile processing professionals make important decisions every day that affect patients, staff, workflows, and overall outcomes. Sustainability is part of that responsibility, but in healthcare, it must always align with safety and effective practice.
Every day seems to bring a new natural disaster or calamity, wildfires burning up New Mexico, western reservoirs drained to their lowest levels ever, extreme weather, flooding and landslides around the globe, can it get any worse? In a word, YES, yes it can if we don’t also stop poisoning ourselves with chemicals and products toxic to both humans and the environment.