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minutes to 28 minutes since they began using this beeper idea.
• The job's not done once the room is cleaned.
The turnover team must
serve as orderlies and furniture movers, transporting patients to sur-
gery, helping position patients, and moving needed equipment and
instruments into the
room. And you must
motivate them to do
their jobs with great
care and speed.
Remember, though,
that it can be tough to
sell your staff on the
merits of faster room
turnovers. For them,
the reward for a job
well done is simply
more work. It might
help to remind them
that low turnover times
are also one of the key
indicators of operating
room efficiency.
"Surgeons who come
from other facilities
say we have the best
turnovers," says Sara
Schaefer, CST, at
Fairview Lakes
Medical Center in
Wyoming, Minn.
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