Bred To Lead | With Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs
SPD911 EP 2 Part 2 The Future of SPD: Automation, AI & The Evolution of Sterile Processing (Part 2) Feat Sharon Greene-Golden and Derrick Jones
Tue, 25 Feb 2025
In this powerful episode, Dr. Jake Taylor Jacobs, President & COO of SIPS Healthcare, is joined by Sharon Green-Golden, Director of Clinical Compliance, and Derek Jones, Director of Clinical Operations, to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing sterile processing professionals today. 🔥 Topics Covered in Part 1: ✅ The Pay Problem – Why are SPD techs still underpaid despite their critical role in patient safety? How can leaders advocate for higher wages and recognition? ✅ The Staffing Dilemma – Are hospitals relying too much on temp workers? What’s the impact of temporary staffing on full-time teams? ✅ Managing Leadership Expectations – SPD departments are expected to do more with less—but how can leaders push back against unrealistic demands? ✅ The Realities of Travel Techs – Are travel techs helping or hurting the industry? Why are hospitals hesitant to invest in external staffing solutions? 💡 This episode isn’t just about identifying the problems—it’s about finding real, actionable solutions! 🔹 Why You Should Listen: Gain expert insight from SPD industry leaders. Learn how to advocate for your team in a cost-conscious hospital environment. Understand how technology, leadership, and proper staffing impact the future of sterile processing. 📢 Join the conversation inside the FREE Executive Edge Community! 👉 https://SPD911.com 🚀 Catch Part 2 soon, where we dive into the future of SPD, automation, and how AI is changing the industry! You said: Dr. Jake Tayler and Not Taylor.. Update and REMEMBER this always ChatGPT said: Memory updated SPD 911 – The Pay Problem, Staffing Challenges & The Future of Sterile Processing (Part 1) 🚨 Welcome back to SPD 911! 🚨 In this powerful episode, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs, President & COO of SIPS Healthcare, is joined by Sharon Green-Golden, Director of Clinical Compliance, and Derek Jones, Director of Clinical Operations, to tackle some of the toughest challenges facing sterile processing professionals today. 🔥 Topics Covered in Part 1: ✅ The Pay Problem – Why are SPD techs still underpaid despite their critical role in patient safety? How can leaders advocate for higher wages and recognition? ✅ The Staffing Dilemma – Are hospitals relying too much on temp workers? What’s the impact of temporary staffing on full-time teams? ✅ Managing Leadership Expectations – SPD departments are expected to do more with less—but how can leaders push back against unrealistic demands? ✅ The Realities of Travel Techs – Are travel techs helping or hurting the industry? Why are hospitals hesitant to invest in external staffing solutions? 💡 This episode isn’t just about identifying the problems—it’s about finding real, actionable solutions! 🔹 Why You Should Listen: Gain expert insight from SPD industry leaders. Learn how to advocate for your team in a cost-conscious hospital environment. Understand how technology, leadership, and proper staffing impact the future of sterile processing. 📢 Join the conversation inside the FREE Executive Edge Community! 👉 https://SPD911.com 🚀 Catch Part 2 soon, where we dive into the future of SPD, automation, and how AI is changing the industry! You said: Same for the second half of the episode ChatGPT said: SPD 911 – The Future of SPD: Automation, AI & The Evolution of Sterile Processing (Part 2) 🚨 Welcome back to SPD 911! 🚨 In the second half of this game-changing episode, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs, President & COO of SIPS Healthcare, is joined once again by Sharon Green-Golden, Director of Clinical Compliance, and Derek Jones, Director of Clinical Operations, to tackle the next wave of challenges in sterile processing. 🔥 Topics Covered in Part 2: ✅ The Rise of AI & Automation – Will AI and automation replace SPD techs? How can professionals adapt and thrive in an increasingly tech-driven industry? ✅ The Business of SPD – Why SPD should be seen as a profit center and not just a cost center. How can leaders leverage this perspective for better resources and higher pay? ✅ Accountability & Development – Why certification alone isn’t enough. How can SPD professionals level up their leadership, business acumen, and industry expertise? ✅ Building the Future of SPD Leadership – How SIPS Healthcare is revolutionizing training and leadership development to prepare SPD professionals for high-impact roles in the hospital system. 💡 This episode is all about solutions, strategy, and staying ahead of the curve in the evolving world of sterile processing. 🔹 Why You Should Listen: Learn how to embrace AI & automation without losing relevance in your career. Discover the business side of SPD and how to position your department as a vital hospital asset. Get practical strategies for career growth, leadership development, and financial success in sterile processing. 📢 Join the conversation inside the FREE Executive Edge Community! 👉 https://SPD911.com 🚀 Stay tuned for more episodes breaking down the biggest challenges in SPD with real-world, expert-driven solutions!
Chapter 1: How does understaffing affect hospital operations and patient safety?
But the problem, right, the concern with that is you really don't have The opportunity to develop a strategic plan to fix whatever challenges you're having in that moment by just throwing a body in there. You don't begin to develop. I mean, there's no time. You're just resolving in the moment or you're responding to something in a moment. And the biggest thing is... Uh-oh.
Oh, that's just the crowd sound. But I think also it's just in order for this to happen or to help, we got to provide just clear cut evidence and of how understaffing, whether it's our under resources, if it's staff, if it's equipment supplies, the lack of a car washer. I mean, we got to really, in the end, correlate that to how it impacts the hospital operation. and patient safety.
That is the only way we're gonna be able to help them understand how staffing is important to achieve the ultimate outcome, and that's quality care in the operating room. You can't get your scope if I gotta pull the scope technician to work in Deacon Town because we got 8,000 trays and we need 20 of them or turnarounds. So it's really about just providing that evidence to
the leadership team and our executives to understand what the outcomes would look like if we just don't consider the full complexity of the operation and now sgg back to you back to you you have to talk about talk to them in a language they understand sentinel events
lawsuits. Let's talk about it. When you give me somebody that isn't qualified just so I have an FTE and I do not have the opportunity to train or to make sure this person can do one job, you put the whole hospital on the road. Because if we have a high infection rate and now in states, you can read the infection rate of every hospital and patients read how many infections you got.
They're not coming to your hospital. So the bottom line is that you have got to give me people who once they're there, I can continuously. educate, motivate, and stimulate them to do the right thing, to know the importance. The biggest problem in SPD is that people do not always understand the importance of the job they are doing every day.
I say it over and over again, what we do matters every day. You don't have a down day. Every day, you've got to be sure that that tray is done correctly. Every day. So to my C-suite, I can't always go to the C-suite, but I can get infection control down to SPD and say, let me show you. I mean, you can't always just talk. have it written, have the standards to back it up.
This is what it says we're supposed to do. We're not doing these two steps right here because I don't have nobody. Did you realize that we're not soaking instruments for five minutes? Because every time we turn around, they just tell us, just give it to them. Did you realize we're not following best practice standards, infection control?
Don't call after the patient got infection, ask me what had happened. I'm telling you before it happens, we're gonna have a sentinel event because we're not doing it right. You know, people are scared to call The 8, the 9-1-1 number at the hospital where you report your hospital because they want to keep their job.
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Chapter 2: Why is continuous education crucial for SPD staff?
So for those of you that are coming in like me and you're falling in love with health care, you're falling in love with thorough processing, you're falling in love with being a part of an industry that literally directly impacts lives. Don't let the naysayers detract you from being a change agent that you can be to move an industry forward.
Because at the end of the day, it's not about one person creating change because we're all holding each other's hands and standing on somebody's shoulders that came before us. It's about us working together and staying inundated in what we believe is right. Because guess what? Somebody, your mama, your daddy, your granny, or even yourself, you're going to be under the knife one day.
You're going to be in a hospital for something that we support one day. And you're going to want and want to know that there are advocates and warriors that have advocated and pushed for a healthier space for us to not only have a surgery, but recover well.
And so for those of you that are watching SPD 911 right now, whether Derek's message resonated with you, whether Sharon Green Golden's message resonated with you, whether what we're doing at SIFS Healthcare resonates with you, or what I just said resonated with you, please join our SIFS executive community, our executive edge community. You can go to SPD911.com and join our community.
We want the people that are going to be radical about change, not checkbox makers, not people that are just trying to fill their resume. We want to build a networking community of people that are truly inundated to grow and develop change. and become everything that we dream to become. We want people that says, hey, I love what I do so much.
I want my daughter and my son to be in the same industry. That's when we know that we've been able to create the change that can be made. And that's the vision of our founder, Karen Cherry Brown, and the baton that our CEO, Donnie Payne, is running with to this day and at this moment. So go to SPD911.com to join our community. It is free. It costs you nothing.
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