Meant to ask this at the PPO meeting. With the new 797 guide lines, whom cleans the ante room and sterile prep/chemo rooms? Is it the housekeeping department? Are they ceritfied? We seem to be having issues at our site. They just do not get it that pharmacy needs to be as sterile as the OR.
We have the same issues. We have given tasks to both the techs and the housekeeping. The floors and walls are cleaned by housekeeping--the items on the shelf by the techs and this keeps both parties happy!!
Hi All! Glad to see everyone's postings since conference time, taking the enthusiasm and interest back to the office with them!
FYI, we had tried to squeeze in a speaker on this subject (the new 797 guidelines taking effect next year), at the last minute for this year's program, but it was just a bit too late to work it out with the speaker's schedule.
From what I understand, there will still be time to discuss this topic at next year's event, and we hope to get that speaker committed for next year.
If anyone needs a copy of the USP <797> guidelines, there's a link on the Conference URL page. On the first set of links the 'Chemo Contamination Test Kit' link has on its page the Policies and Procedures Complying with USP <797>. It's a six-page Adobe file you can download and print fr your Chemo Rooms.
