Exploring the Perceptions of Sterile Services Staff: A Qualitative Constructivist Study

Abstract

With innovations in medicine and science, the extended roles for practitioners continue to evolve and merge, often crossing interprofessional boundaries. This paper presents a qualitative study which explored sterile services staff experiences of current practices and how they perceive the prospect of professionalisation.

Keywords

Decontamination sciences Decontamination education and training Professionalisation Sterile services

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