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3-Minute Turnover - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - December 2018

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"Each zone is a person. Add a zone, add a person," says Ms. De Vito. "Trained hands on defined zones hone speed." Train all staff about zone cleaning so anyone who enters a room to join in the fray will know the routine. Reassign zones if a staff member isn't able to do it well. For example, don't assign a short person to tall equipment. As a gener- al rule, everyone moves from the high- est point of cleaning in the room to the lowest point. And whatever you do, don't cross zones. Otherwise, you risk repeated motions and cleaning the same surface twice. Four words you never want to hear: "Did you wipe this?" When not doing turnovers, the same staff can work the central core, restock, or prepare specialty beds and equipment according to the schedule. "People shouldn't sit around," 4 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 8

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