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Paycheck vs Purchasing Power - Subscribe to Outpatient Surgery Magazine - January 2018

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1 6 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • J A n U A R Y 2 0 1 8 W e perform a time out in the pre-op area to ensure each patient's paperwork is complete, specific health issues have been addressed, and the sur- geon has confirmed and signed the correct surgical site. In the past, we had no uniform way of identifying which patients were ready to be brought to the OR and which still needed to have some aspect of their pre-op care addressed. Now, nurses place patients' yellow pre-op forms in the top 2 rings of a 3-ring binder, so that the paper sticks out to "flag" the patient as not being ready for surgery. The manager of the depart- ment can notice the "flagged" forms sticking out of the binders with a quick scan of the room. After all of the pre-op checks are completed, nurses return the sheets to the 3 rings to "unflag" patients for surgery. Vickie O'Donnell, RN, BSN Advanced Surgical Institute Egg Harbor, n.J. vaodonnell@virtua.org Flag Patients Not Yet Ready for Surgery PRE-OP CHECK • CLEAR SIGNAL Patients with charts that have a "yel- low flag" sticking out of their binder can't leave pre-op. Vickie O'Donnell, RN, BSN Ideas Work That

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