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By: OSD Staff
Published: 12/2/2014
3 O's SUPPLY SOLUTION
The Key to Well-Stocked Specialty Carts
We have more than 10 specialty carts stationed in our sterile core: emergency carts, a mesh cart, suture carts, and so on. Inventorying them all is a daunting task for one person to handle on her own. So when my staff have downtime, I'll assign a couple of nurses or techs, whoever's available, to check a couple of carts each to help out. They follow what we call the 3 O's system:
Not only will your specialty carts be fully stocked, but your staff will know the cart's contents and set-ups the next time they need to retrieve something fast.
Rachel Miller Abanilla, BSN, RN, CNOR
Houston (Texas) Methodist West Hospital
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