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Administrator Barbara Marco, BSN, MS.
"The entire OR staff helps with turnover. Nobody sits around, ever,"
says Kimberly Malchow, the office manager at the Grossmont
Outpatient Surgical Center in La Mesa, Calif.
A drawback to not having a dedicated team: You don't always know
who'll show up. "We call room turnover as a page and anyone available
shows up. Usually 3 to 5 people will show up," says Joy Prendergast,
RN, the surgery supervisor at Salina (Kans.) Surgical Hospital.
Not enough bodies can inflate turnover times. "We would like our
turnover times to be under 15 minutes, but we do not have turnover
teams," says Kristi Plank, BSN, the perioperative educator at Cartersville
(Ga.) Medical Center. "We have 1 environmental employee who is
responsible for keeping the whole department clean — pre-op, PACU,
the lounge."
Your anesthetist
could also hamper
turnover times. If the
patient takes a while
to wake up after sur-
gery, you have to
hurry up and wait
before you can turn
the room over. "We
aren't supposed to
wipe down the room
until the patient is out
of the room," says a
nurse manager.
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