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Accreditation Dings - August 2013 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Page 22 IDEAS THAT WORK MENTORING NEW HIRES 'Buddy Scrubs' Help Ease the Transition TEAMING UP The buddy-scrub system helps new hires learn the ropes quickly and confidently. We're a very small hospital in the boot heel of Missouri. When we recruit scrub techs, we make sure we don't just throw them into the deep end without a life preserver. Instead, as part of our orientation process, we assign everyone a "buddy scrub" — one of our experienced nurses — to stay with them for several weeks, give them moral support, instruct them in all the little details and teach them each surgeon's preferences. As a new hire progresses, the buddy scrub might not actually scrub in with her, but she'll stay in the room to observe how she does: How is her technique, does she follow policy, does she follow labeling compliance, and so forth. We have an orientation checklist and we check things off as the scrub tech accomplishes each designated task — cleaning instruments, running the autoclave, assembling trays, doing counts, etc. Fortunately, our surgeons are both cooperative and supportive — during orientation they know they're not allowed to yell at them (after ori-

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