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O U T PAT I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E O N L I N E | FEBRuARY 2015
P r a c t i c a l p e a r l s f r o m y o u r c o l l e a g u e s
I D E A S T H A T W O R K
C H A R I TA B L E D O N A T I O N S
Give Expired Supplies to Those In Need
L
ooking to
keep excess
waste out of
landfills while helping
those in need? Mark
the expiration date on
all of your OR
turnover cleaning
solutions with a black
permanent marker.
Gather up those that
are outdated and
donate them to local
homeless shelters and
clinics. You can also
take them outdated
surgical supplies, like
alcohol swabs, bottles of foam sanitizer and Band-Aids. You can do
the same for opened-but-unused supplies that you're not able to use in
a timely fashion in the OR. We also have a surgery tech that takes sur-
gical supplies that cannot be reprocessed to a vet that services a no-
kill shelter.
Lynda Dowman-Simon, RN
Mercy Surgery Center-Seminole
Springfield, MO
lynda.simon@mercy.net
z REPURPOSE CAST OFFS Karen Lance, RN, from Mercy Surgery
Center-Seminole gathers unused supplies from the center and
donates them to various shelters and clinics she volunteers at.
Lynda
Dowman-Simon,
RN
