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May 2008 |
News |
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Cart smarts:
Workflow-driven innovations ready to roll
From a supply chain management perspective, carts represent one of the
tried and true workhorses of the profession – and the industry. But they
have progressed beyond just being a stack of shelves festooned to casters.
Not only are healthcare facilities creatively designing and organizing these
transportation vehicles, but manufacturers are equipping them with some of
the latest tools and tricks viewed as useful enhancements and features for
bottom line results.
Mission critical for supply management
Ask a critical care nurse about materials management’s customer service or ask a materials manager about
ICU’s supply demands and you’ll likely generate some eye rolling and sighs,
followed by complaints. "Materials management doesn’t understand the ICU’s
needs; the ICU makes too many demands without any forecasting or predictive
planning." It doesn’t have to be this way. Read why and how. |
Operating Room |
Fanning the flames of
surgical fire prevention
Shouting "Fire!" in a crowded theater earns you serious legal
repercussions. Shouting "Fire!" in a surgical suite – whether in the room,
on the patient or in the patient – can do the same but also can hold a
patient’s life and well-being in the balance – not to mention the doctors
and nurses in the room. How does a facility protect itself and its surgical
patients? |
Infection Connection |
ICP salary gains reflect
quality drive, safety influence
While salaries for infection control practitioners continue to grow at a
steady pace, the stage is set for these key players in healthcare quality
and safety to see bigger gains as they begin to wield greater influence in
their facilities.
Infection Protection VAP prevention
by Suzanne Pear, RN, PhD,CIC
Self Study Series
The optimal selection and use of surgicalinstrument lubricants
CS Solutions
Policy vs. procedure? Wrapped packages in containers? |
Products and Services
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Sterilizer Indicator
Guide: Trio of tools needed for effective process monitoring
Although the purpose of sterilization — to kill living organisms – may
seem cut and dry to some, sterile processing and surgical services
professionals can attest that there’s much more to reaching that goal than
meets the eye. The key? Process challenge devices.
What Works
Supply recycling donations
New Products |
People
& Opinions |
Be the servant
leader of your hospital by Marc Higgins
Fast Foreward
Baseline
When a Golden Flash is Rusty
by Fred Crans
Captial Gains Preventing data’s disappearing act
by Irwin Baker
Back Talk
Making a case for fully integrated case carts by David Kaczmarek |
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