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2013
Awards
Create Closing Trays
Beverly King, MSN
Duke University Hospital, Durham,
N.C.
Duke's general surgery team collaborated with surgeons to reduce
SSI rates for colorectal surgery
from 9.6% to 2%. If you want to
see similar results, Beverly King,
MSN, nurse manager of operations for general surgery, suggests
your scrub team put on clean
gowns
and
gloves
after
anastomosis is
complete.
She also
CLOSING TIME
Instruments dedicated to
says a
skin closure help keep surgical sites contamination-free.
tray of
7 4
instruments dedicated to skin closure prevents contaminating the
surgical site. Keep the closing tray
on the back table until the surgical
team re-towels around the incision and seals blood vessels.
SIGN HERE Give
surgeons pre-filled
paperwork to
complete.
Jane Bell, RN, BSN
patients from admission to discharge. A tech might keep watch in
the OR while nurses maintain surveillance in pre- and post-op areas.
Give staff and physicians quarterly
report cards so they can track their
performance and progress.
Make Tracking SSIs
Easier
Cityview Surgery Center, Fort
Worth, Texas
Make SSI reporting easier for your
docs by giving them pre-filled
infection control forms to complete
each quarter, suggests Nurse
Manager Jane Bell, RN, BSN. Have
basic patient information already
completed, including their names,
surgery dates and any complications that occurred. Filling in part of
the forms saves surgeons time and
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