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any hands make light work, but some say less is
more when it comes to turning a room over after
surgery. "Sometimes more people is not better,"
says Cynthia Loomis, RN, CNOR, of Carroll
Hospital Center in Westminster, Md. "We used to
Secrets to Speedy
OR Turnover Times
How to turn rooms over safely and efficiently.
Dan O'Connor
Editor-in-Chief
• IS FEWER BETTER? Some say the only thing worse than a turnover team with not enough able-bodied bodies is one with too many.
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN,
CNOR