AORN New York City Chapter 3304 - October Meeting

Barbara Ann Harmer is the Vice President of Clinical Services at Innovative Sterilization Technologies, LLC. Barbara is a highly skilled, knowledgeable, and visionary perioperative nursing leader with over 48 years of administrative and clinical management and internal and external consulting experience in both inpatient, outpatient, and multi-campus healthcare facilities. She is the founder and President of MedAssist Consultants Inc., a highly respected and experienced consulting company for over 45 years. She has successfully provided medical and surgical consulting services to over 325 clients nationally and internationally. Barbara Ann’s record demonstrates increasingly challenging healthcare leadership positions. She is sought after as a speaker for local, regional, and national symposiums and conventions. Ms. Harmer has been a member of AORN since 1977; she is an active voting member of four AAMI working committees, ST/WG 40 - Steam Sterilization hospital practices (ST79) and ST/WG 84 – Endoscope Reprocessing (ST91) and ST/WG 11, General criteria for sterilization processes and sterilizing equipment and the newly formed ST/WG 17, Cleaning and Disinfection. She has participated as a member of the Advisory Committee/WG 40 and assisted in the rework and redesign of ANSI/AAMI ST79: 2017 Comprehensive guide to steam sterilization and sterility assurance in health care facilities. Ms. Harmer has also worked on the development of the AAMI TIR 109, External transport of medical devices processed by health care facilities and AAMI TIR 99, Processing of dilators, transesophageal and ultrasound probes in health care facilities. Ms. Harmer is a past national president of the ophthalmic nursing organization, ASORN, Inc. She was a surveyor for AAAHC for twenty-four years and had conducted CMS surveys since the inception of deemed status surveys in 1996. She is a member of AORN, Inc., ASORN, Inc. and HSPA (formerly known as IAHCSMM).