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HTM 01-05 compliance: Eating the elephant a bite at a time

Being nominated as your decontamination lead can be at times daunting, time consuming and challenging. However, if managed efficiently it can be a rewarding and empowering opportunity to develop both you and your team, says Emma Male

When I was asked by my employer in 2009 to convert 86 pages of a new decontamination guidance document into an efficiently functioning decontamination system for our busy, five-surgery dental practice, it felt like I had been asked to split an atom while summiting the north face of the Eiger. I could not envisage me, a newly promoted clinical manager with a purely dental nursing background, steering our practice ship through the seas of decontamination compliance. However, with a deep breath, a positive approach and with a practice principle who believed in me, I made a plan and broke down what seemed like a mammoth task into small manageable chunks. I started to eat the elephant a bite at a time.

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