Outpatient Surgery Magazine - Subscribers

Sleep Apnea - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - October 2018

Outpatient Surgery Magazine, providing current information on Surgical Services, Surgical Facility Administration, Outpatient Surgery News and Trends, OR Excellence and more.

Issue link: http://outpatientsurgery.uberflip.com/i/1038575

Contents of this Issue

Navigation

Page 10 of 116

a dispenser from the middle of the room to near the door. But that's not all we did. • Self-policing. We trained staff, auditors and senior nurses to do "just in time" coaching. If they're walking around and they see some- one is about to do a task that requires them to sanitize their hands, they're to stop them and remind them to push the dispenser. • Code word yellow. Just as a yellow traffic light means caution, we trained staff to subtly alert colleagues — without alarming patients — to wash their hands by saying the word "yellow." • Posters. We placed "Are your hands clean?" posters next to the doors in every room that lead out to the core to remind staff rushing out the door to stop and sanitize their hands. Kizzie Charles, MS, APRN, AGCNS-BC, CNOR Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York, N.Y. charlesk@mskcc.org

Articles in this issue

Links on this page

Archives of this issue

view archives of Outpatient Surgery Magazine - Subscribers - Sleep Apnea - Outpatient Surgery Magazine - October 2018