Assets and equipment

This does not certify that anything is sterile

It records which load an instrument came out of and whether somebody read that load's indicator as passed. It takes their word for it.

An instrument from a failed load cannot go back into service

The check happens when you save, not when the screen loaded. A load nobody has read yet counts as not passed, because an instrument is not usable on the assumption that a cycle worked.

A cycle is read once

Recording a result again is how a failed load quietly becomes a passed one, so it is refused.

A job records what it found

Closing a job needs an outcome and a note. A job that closes without them cannot answer whether this machine was checked, which is the question somebody asks after it hurts a patient.

Raising a job does not take the equipment out of use

Plenty of planned work happens on equipment that stays in service, so taking it out is a separate and deliberate step.

One tag per asset

A duplicate tag is two service histories for one machine, and a maintenance record that is right in neither, so the tag has to be unique.

A place that is not set up yet

Recording equipment, somebody who manages departments and beds can choose Add place at the foot of the location list. The new place comes back chosen and the equipment form keeps everything already entered.

Add an asset

1. Stay on Equipment and select Add an asset.
2. Give it a tag that is unique and will not change.
3. Choose what kind of thing it is and where it lives.

Raise and close a job

1. Open the asset, choose the kind of job and say what needs doing.
2. Select Raise a job.
3. When it is finished, select Close, choose what it found, and write what was done. Every choice closes the job, including parts needed: raise a new job when the parts arrive, and take the equipment out of service if it is not safe to use.

Record a sterilization load

1. Open the Sterilization tab.
2. Enter the cycle reference from the printout and choose the method.
3. List what went in, one tag per line, as it is on each set.
4. Select Record the load. Everything in it moves to being in a load.

Read the indicator

1. Open the load and select It passed or It failed.
2. A failure needs to say what the indicator showed.
3. Nothing from a failed load can go back into service.