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z CLOSE CUT You should remove hair outside of the OR.
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN
W
hen it comes to hair removal, do you just grab a
clipper and go? There's more to it that you may
be missing. How, when and where you do it —
and if you even do it at all — impact your infec-
tion rates. Organizations like the Association of
periOperative Nurses (AORN) and the Institute for Healthcare
Improvement (IHI) have set industry standards, yet an Outpatient
Surgery Magazine survey of 128 surgical facility leaders found great
The Long and Short of
Hair Removal