1 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J a n u a r y 2 0 1 7
I
t's hard for
your Or team
to properly
position patients
for surgery if they
can't locate the
positioning
devices. To be
certain our staff
always has access
to the proper posi-
tioning devices in
our Or suites, we
created position-
ing carts that con-
tain the same
commonly used
devices, including
gel pads of vari-
ous sizes and shapes, plastic arm sleds and foam arm holders.
We found that rolling metal carts with 2-3 shelves had plenty of
space to store the devices (you can fold the gel pads). We keep
the carts in the sub-sterile room between Ors.
Sue Kehoe, BS, RN, CNOR
Kathleen Mitchell, BSN, RN, CNOR
Virtua Voorhees (n.J.)
skehoe@virtua.org
kmitchell4@virtua.org
Has Anybody Seen The Gel Pads?
• POSITION CART Place your cart in the sub-sterile room for easy access to posi-
tioning devices.
Virtua
Voorhees
(N.J.)
