Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
There is a myriad of ways to participate in National Nurses Week, which is celebrated May 6-12, from honoring your staff RNs with a gift or event to taking steps to let...
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By: John Kelly, IV
Published: 6/30/2014
0ur ORs have been striving to reduce overhead. The days of cost-cutting are here to stay, but it's sometimes a bitter pill to swallow.
Grocery shopping
As long as nurses and physicians have a say in matters, patient care will not be compromised. To quote famous football coach Bill Parcells: "If they want you to cook the dinner, at least they ought to let you shop for some of the groceries."
DROP THE BOMB
A Fun Way to Mark the Prep Dry Time
To safeguard our 3-minute dry time on surgical preps, we call up a website (online-stopwatch.com/bomb-countdown) on our monitor that counts down from 3 minutes until a "bomb" explodes on the screen. This way, everyone knows the required dry time has been met. It's a fun and effective way to mark the dry time.
Mary Haugen, MA, RN
TRIA Orthopaedic Center
Bloomington, Minn.
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