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Accreditation Dings - August 2013 - Outpatient Surgery Magazine

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Page 45 A C C R E D I T A T I O N Our annual look at the odd and unusual things that surveyors cited surgical facilities for. Dan O'Connor | Editor-in-Chief The best accreditation surveyors are helpful, fair and professional. They're thorough but reasonable, and offer constructive comments. The worst are nitpickers who focus on the trivial, whose findings make you roll your eyes, shake your head and shrug your shoulders. Like the surveyor who notes a few strands of hair sticking out of the circulator's hat and cites WOULD YOU BELIEVE WE GOT DINGED FOR … Kim Mills, RN, nurse manager of Western Maryland Health System, stands next to Karen Youngblood, RN, same day surgery charge nurse.

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