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IDEAS THAT WORK
ship program we have with
a couple of local colleges.
(Setting up and maintaining
these programs takes a little time and effort, but
HARD-TO-MISS REMINDER
Hang Site-Marking Signs on IV Poles
D
o you want to give your surgeons and anesthesia providers
friendly reminders that
patients can't be moved from the pre-
they're well worth the
op holding area or given sedainvestment.) After working
tion or anti-anxiety medwith these students every
ications until their
day for 6 weeks, you get a
surgical sites are
feel not only for their skills,
marked properly?
but also for their personaliHang a sign on the
ties. Always ask to interIV poles of
view students before
patients waiting to
accepting them as interns
be marked. When
at your facility. Just like
physicians mark the patients,
your regular staff, it's
they take down the signs and hand
important that students fit
them back to one of the pre-op nurses.
in as well.
Cathy D'Entremont, RN, CASC
Salem Surgery Center
Salem, N.H.
cathy.dentremont@
hcahealthcare.com
Denise Wong,
MS, BSN, RN, CNOR, NE-BC
Advocate Illinois
Masonic Medical Center
Chicago, Ill.
denise.wong@advocatehealth.com
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