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Re: Cleaning Iodine Therapy Patient Rooms

This sounds to me as if once again some MBA type has stepped outside
his/her area of expertise.  Maybe you could suggest that they also
train the housekeeping staff to do the electrical and plumbing work as
well.  I would hope that your licensing agency would object to having
untrained personnel doing this kind of work.  I have been setting up
and decontaminating these rooms for over thirty years and different
patients present different problems.  This requires a bit more depth of
knowledge than a "cookbook" approach provides.  

--- Chris Davey <cdavey@med.phys.ualberta.ca> wrote:
> I'm sure this will disturb some people, but at our
> Cancer Treatment
> Hospital, the Nuclear Medicine group has lost some
> techs due to cut-backs.
> They do not have the time to decontaminate the
> therapy patient rooms after
> each patient, and the suggestion has been made that
> we train housekeeping
> staff to do this.
> 
> I have reservations on several points, but want to
> hear if anyone is
> already successfully doing this, or alternatively,
> if they have tried it
> and found that it didn't work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Chris Davey
> 
> 
>  RSO / LSO  Cross Cancer Institute  11560 University
> Avenue
>  Edmonton   Alberta   Canada  T6G 1Z2
>  (780)  432-8616   fax 432-8615
>  email: cdavey@med.phys.ualberta.ca
>  pager number 005, just call (780)  432-8771 and ask
> for that pager
> 
> 
>
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