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IDEAS
That Work
Practical pearls from your colleagues
Brenda
Vahle,
RN,
CAPA
A
fter you clip the hair from the surgical site, use a lint roller or
an adhesive glove — depending on how hairy the patient is —
to pick up all the little clippings that can either fall onto the
patient or get into the bed linen. Your surgeons will really appreciate
that there's no loose hair falling around the OR when you transfer
patients from gurneys to OR tables.
Brenda Vahle, RN, CAPA
BSM Surgery Center
Corvallis, Ore.
bvahle@bsmac.com
CLEARING THE HAIR
Pick Up Loose Hair Clippings
ON A ROLL Meredith Plummer, RN, uses
a lint roller to remove hair clippings.