Where could I get a policy and procedure skeleton manual about Sterile Processing Departments (or CSSD etc). I need to write all the policies for my department and feel that perhaps allot of the leg work has been done somewhere....if I could find it.

Many thanks
Eleanor Kenny

Dear Eleanor

You might find what you are looking for at the websites:

• www.urmc.rochester.edu/sterile/index.html
  (University of Rochester Medical Center): click Sterile and Material Processing Department

and/or

• www.va.gov/oa&mm/policy/7176h.htm
  VA Handbook 7176, go to- related Directive and click: Supply, Processing and Distribution (SPD) Operational Requirements

If you want more information it might help if you just insert something like "Central Sterile Supply Department" in a Search machine such as Google (www.google.com)!

Good luck!
Kind regards Josy Holdener