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Is Your Turnover Team Fast Enough? - August 2014 - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Center in Muskogee, Okla., they've pro- grammed a string of beepers to page all members of the turnover team at once. The circulator enters "222" for room 2, "333" for room 3 and so on. "This notifies our housekeeping staff, OR charge nurse and PACU staff that the patient is coming off the table," says Patricia Huber, MA, RN, the nurse manager of perioperative servic- es. The turnover team, plus any roamers, con- verges on the OR that is coming out to assist with turnover. "Our PACU staff also appre- ciates the heads-up that a patient is com- ing," says Ms. Huber, adding that they've lowered the average turnover times from 42 T U R N O V E R

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