The decontamination part of our form is only completed by the nurses on the ward when the equipment is finished being used on the patient. The medical equipment copy of the form is put back in the brown envelope attached to the device and placed in the designated area where our staff collect 'used/dirty' equipment and return it to the library. No-one else sees the form or the comments about infectious patients so there is no breach of patient confidentiality. We originally blanked out the patient's name bit on thelibrary copy because of reasons of confidentiality so only the PAS no. was shown but this caused difficulty for the nurses so we included it in our next printed batch of forms on the advice of ward managers.
