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INDIAN STERILIZATION HOSPITALS ASSOCIATION
Nandini Krishnamurthi
CSSD Expert
Nandini Krishnamurthi has been associated with the healthcare industry, mainly the CSSD, in various capacities for 45 years. She has been a CSSD manager and consultant, but at heart a CSSD educationist. Her passion lies in teaching and training on CSSD, a subject in which she has gained vast experience and knowledge over the last many years.
She is the Founder of I.S.H.A., a body for CSSD personnel and others associated with this department (like surgeons, nurses, OT technicians, microbiologists, administrators, equipment manufacturers and consumable suppliers) . She was the founder of the body HSSA way back in the year 2000 which was one of the first registered bodies purely for CSSD activities in India. This body operates mostly in Mumbai. ISHA however is an all India registered body of which you too could become a member through this website.
She has her own You tube channel named “Knowledge with Nandini” where many videos, power point presentations, clippings and other CSSD material are available for you, free of cost, from her expertise and based on International and Indian guidelines and regulations. She is also available on other social media platforms like Facebook where she has a special page for CSSD and LinkedIn.
She has written a text book based on her vast experience in the CSSD field, keeping standard guidelines in mind (CDC., WHO., AAMI., JCI., AORN etc) She has designed an online certificate course for CSSD, much needed today.
She has visited over 100 large and small hospitals, guiding and assisting in developing CSSD protocols, conducting audits, delivered around 500 lectures in various hospitals and seminars and helped in setting up CSSDs.
Her mission is reaching CSSD protocols to every CSSD technician in the smallest and largest hospital / clinic in India through seminars, webinars and certified training courses. This would help to eliminate infections caused due to instruments used in patient care. Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) are a major public health problem and contribute to spread of anti -microbial resistance (AMR) in hospitals.