the health system's other centers to copy. Perioperative nurses and
certified surgical technologists teamed up to modify the inpatient
standard count worksheet into a custom dry erase board that would
hang in each facility's ORs, says Jillian Bowers, BSN, RN, CNOR, the
OR educational nurse
coordinator of ambu-
latory surgery at
Michigan Medicine.
She says the cre-
ation of a standard-
ized board was a col-
laborative effort. Staff
members were divid-
ed into small groups
and asked to create
their own designs.
The teams bounced
ideas off each other
and then came
together as a group to
agree on a single tem-
plate. "Because we
involved the staff in
the process, we
received no push-
back," says Ms.
Bowers.
The final template
included spaces
where staff could
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