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T U R N O V E R
"The secret sauce to our rapid turnover is that we all share the
responsibility of the tasks involved: the nurses, the scrubs, CRNAs,
everyone," says Karen Brown, RN, BSN, team leader of the Meridian
(Miss.) Surgery Center. "Anything that needs doing gets done in a
timely manner. Because we are a small facility, we are the housekeeping staff until after hours when the cleaning service arrives. Turnover
times that are too long can add hours to your day and subtract dollars
from your bottom line over the course of a year. It is a total team
effort, and we take great pleasure in providing our doctors with a
rapid turnover." OSM
E-mail doconnor@outpatientsurg ery.net.
TARGET PRACTICE
Preset Your Turnover Times by Procedure
he Mercy Medical Center in Canton, Ohio, has assigned a target
turnover time for every procedure it hosts, from a low of 10 minutes for basic cataract cases to a high of 45 minutes for a craniotomy (see table below).
They use wheels-out to
wheels-in to measure.
"At the end of the case,
the RN says, 'The time for
this turnover is X. Do we
all feel we can meet that
time?' If anyone knows of
a problem, they state it.
TIME BANDITS The Mercy Medical
Otherwise, we write that
Center in Canton, Ohio, writes the target
time on the whiteboard
turnover time on a white eraser board.
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Mercy Medical Center
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