The podcast for sterile processing technicians studying for the CRCST exam. Two hosts, real department stories, and exam-day tactics you can use the moment you press pause. Short episodes, zero fluff. Free for everyone, no account needed.
Every episode is mapped to the HSPA exam domains, so listening is studying. Play right in your browser, or slow it down to 0.75x to catch every detail.
Extreme dishwashers, with life or death stakes.
Maya and Chris kick off the series with the big picture: what sterile processing actually is, the one-directional workflow (the river analogy), the CRCST exam structure, and the 7 exam domains (the pizza analogy). Perfect first listen.
A vault, a nightclub bouncer, and a front door.
Critical, semi-critical, non-critical, explained with a vault, a nightclub bouncer, and a front door. Maya and Chris cover high-level disinfection vs sterilization and the exam traps that mix up the categories.
Trapped in an autoclave, the Bowie Dick test, wet packs.
The pressure cooker analogy, gravity vs prevacuum (jogger vs sprinter), cycle phases explained like baking a cake, plus the Bowie Dick test, BI/CI/PI monitoring, wet packs, and immediate-use steam sterilization.
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Two voices, one mission: make sterile processing stick in your memory long enough to pass the exam.
Certified sterile processing tech and former shift lead. Explains sterilization parameters like she is talking to a friend, and catches every shortcut the exam tries to sneak past you.
SPD educator and professional question-asker. Turns every dry standard into a story you will actually remember, usually involving something that went wrong at 2 a.m.
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CRCST Exam Prep