I
s room turnover at your facility a well-choreographed perform-
ance or a chaotic fire drill, with staff crisscrossing the room
and repeating tasks that have already been performed or,
worse yet, not completing a required cleaning step because
they thought it had already been done? Check out how a few
of your colleagues have reduced their turnover times.
1. NASCAR pit crew
In nothing flat, a NASCAR pit crew leaves nothing undone. No wast-
ed time, no wasted motion, they get in, they get out so the racer can
get on his way. Each team member focuses on a specific area: one
attending to each tire, one fueling the car, another wiping the wind-
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Streamline Room Turnover
• THE NEED FOR SPEED It helps to envision your turnover team like a pit stop crew.
How to ready your ORs faster — consistently, completely and without
cutting corners. Dan Dunkin | Associate Editor
Pamela
Bevelhymer,
RN,
BSN
