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7. Educate your staff Sometimes a refresher course for your staff or re-education is neces- sary to improve awareness. The Boston (Mass.) Children's Hospital found that re-education and simulation training of positioning for all their staff helped improve outcomes A team at Rhode Island Hospital in Provi-dence, R.I. created a hands-on clinic in the OR for nurses. A major component of the training involved placing the nurses in the positions their patients would be in so they could feel the points of pressure for themselves. They also developed laminated posters demonstrating the common pressure points associated with the four most common positions. The posters were placed on their education boards as a reminder to PACU nurses and used in trainings. Many facilities implement testing once or twice a year to see if staff are retaining the knowledge learned during training. Nurses at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center used the AORN Perioperative Mastery Program to assess their staff's knowledge of positioning protocols — and to measure the nurses' confidence in their answers. They found it to be a quick, easy and reliable way to assess their staff's knowledge and improve it. Out of sight, out of mind? Treat surgery-related pressure ulcers like the important problem they are. Patients don't develop ulcers until hours or days after surgery, so your OR team might not be overly concerned about preventing patients from developing pressure ulcers. It's your job to drive this point home to your team. OSM 8 4 • O U T PA T I E N T S U R G E R Y M A G A Z I N E • M A Y 2 0 1 8

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