Quality Assurance in Central Supply Sterile Department Srinagarind Hospital

Abstract

The purpose of this study is organize a quality assurance system for rubber glove cleaning process of the Central Supply Sterile Department, Srinagarind Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Khon Kaen University. The present cleaning process was studied. After that the standard principle according to ISO 9002 and ststistics were applied to increase quality and efficiency of the rubber glove cleaning procedure. From the study, it was found that for glove cleaning process, used gloves from labor room and operating room were operated from the used gloves of general rooms. Moreover, gloves were cleaned according to the ISO 9002 job description for rubber glove cleaning. the control charts for the fraction of defective gloves were created to indicate quality of the cleaning process. Implementtation of the ISO 9002 rubber glove cleaning procedure was found to increase reliability.