October 17th, 2009
On October 14th and 15th, Wilamina Jones, NYSACSP President-Elect and I had the honor and pleasure to attend the Ontario Central Service Association Annual meeting in Toronto. We gratefully took the opportunity to establish new relationships and friendships with our partners to the north.
One very interesting experience was the ease in which Mina starts conversations with people we just met and how much information we gather from them during our brief contact. And the other truly amazing thing was that our problems and process issues do not recognize boarders. Just because the country changed the problems in Sterile Processing departments, relationship, process issues and staffing remain the same.
We had the opportunity to view the newly published Canadian equivalent if our ST79 standard. This is a very impressive document. I recommend it for some light reading.
We also laid the ground work for establishing a lasting relationship with the Ontario Association leadership to exchange information, discussion of mutual issues and seminar information. Hopefully we will see more of our northern neighbors at our Niagara Falls show.
I would like to extend my appreciation and thanks to our friends from SPS Medical for assisting us with sponsorship and allowing us to hang out at their display booth, Also for the opportune introductions, entertainment at the awards dinner and most of all the valuable education and organizational growth that was achieved.
Steve Maley, CRCST
President
New York State Association of Central Service Professionals