Greetings MDRAO Members,
As we begin another year together I want to take a moment and thank you for being a member of MDRAO. You have joined hundreds of dedicated Medical Device Reprocessing professionals who are committed to quality patient care, and ongoing career development.
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Hello MDRAO members.
I hope everyone had a great summer and are all enjoying this beautiful autumn weather. I would like to welcome all the new Board executives as well as thank all the outgoing Board executives for all their support and help during their term.
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Tammy is the Supervisor at Sault Area Hospital’s Medical Device Reprocessing Department. She has been working in health care for 22 years and 11 of them in Medical Device Reprocessing. Tammy has her MDRAO certification, Olympus CERT and CMDRT, from CSA.
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Tamiza started her journey at Cambridge Memorial Hospital as an MDRD technician after completing her CSAO certification in 2005. Prior to working at CMH she owned and operated two businesses for 15 years. Tamiza also worked in endoscopy at St. Mary’s Hospital. From 2008-2013 she was the fill-in team lead and then promoted to permanent team-lead in the MDRD.
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Deo Macadangdang is currently the Educator at Hamilton Health Sciences, General site. He is a graduate of Bachelor of Sciences in Nursing in the Philippines and a Registered Nurse.
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Garry is the Director of Medical Device Reprocessing at Mount Sinai Hospital in Toronto, He has been working in the field of Medical Device Reprocessing since 2013.
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Nathalie works as the MDRD Educator at The Ottawa Hospital, she divides her time between The Ottawa Hospital’s three campuses. The Ottawa Hospital is a Canadian academic health science center that serve 1.2 million people across Eastern Ontario. Nathalie is a graduate from Ottawa University, where she received a BA of Science in Nursing.
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Candia Anderson was born and raised in Thunder Bay but owned and operated a Bed & Breakfast in Atikokan before joining the hospital in 2009.
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Sara Roberts is a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician with 11 years experience at the Chatham Kent Health Alliance.
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Colleen has been a dedicated member of the Medical Device Reprocessing Association of Ontario since 1990, where she established the northern Ontario Theta Chapter. Colleen was on the MDRAO executive for twelve years holding positions of Secretary, Education, Vice President, President and Past President at the provincial level.
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Denise Bosnjak is the Manager of the Medical Device Reprocessing Department at Hamilton Health Sciences at both the General and Juravinski sites. She began her career as a Medical Device Reprocessing Technician over 35 years ago. After working as a Team Leader for 5 years she accepted an MDR Supervisor role that lead to a Manager position.
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Tammara has been working in the Health Care industry for over 26 years and during that time has been employed by Getinge Canada Limited. Some may also know the former company names MDT or Wilmont Castle.
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By Colleen Landers, Registered Nurse and Medical Device Reprocessing Technician
To practitioners in our field, it will come as no surprise to hear that the reprocessing of reusable medical devices is complex, requires a quality system, and if not performed to Canadian Standards can place citizens at risk of obtaining disease or infection. This risk has been well documented in the Canadian media over the past five years. These reports clearly emphasize that faulty practices have placed thousands of Canadians at risk resulting in many of them acquiring HIV, Hepatitis B and other unwelcome diseases.
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Effective March 16, 2018, high-level disinfectant and sterilant solutions (including contact lens disinfectants) intended for use on medical devices are classified by Health Canada as medical devices. Medical device disinfectants and sterilants that do not meet the definition of an antimicrobial agent in the Food and Drug Regulations (FDR) are no longer regulated under the FDR and are now subject to the requirements of the Medical Devices Regulations (MDR.) Disinfectants that meet the definition of an antimicrobial agent continue to be regulated as drugs and subject to the requirements of the FDR.
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