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Currently we have custom packs with single use bowls and kidney dishes etc which are used for medications such as ...
Dawn Berthiaume
24d
Reusable medicine cups, bowls, graduates (pitchers), and basins are stainless steel and often sold by the same ...
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Any recommendations for a surgical hand scrub for staff with allergies to the coventional products (Betadine, ...
AORN Nursing Practice
May '20
Marisa,
The AORN Guideline for Hand Hygiene recommends working closely with your occupational health and ...
The AORN Guideline for Hand Hygiene recommends working closely with your occupational health and ...
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We have followed AORN standards for covering of set ups only when necessary. What is AORN's recommendations of ...
AORN Nursing Practice
May '20
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Some organizations have chosen not to cancel elective surgeries. Â Staff is asked to reuse surgical masks, so they ...
Jennifer Adams
Mar '20
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I recently have an employee who insists on wearing his personal t-shirt under his surgical scrub top. When I ...
James Bowers
Mar '20
A warm up jacket that is buttoned up will cover up the chest hair, I know because I have to wear one as well.Â
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Looking for air exchange recommedations for operating room and sterile, non-steile storage areas, Sterile ...
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I'm trying to see if anyone has any guidelines/thoughts/information on this topic.
Consider this scenario, we ...
Consider this scenario, we ...
Karen Knapp
Mar '20
Normal isolation precautions can be used while the patient is going to sleep. Once asleep, droplet exposure would ...
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Hello all! I work with Plastic Surgeons and with the recent Bacitracin pull by the FDA, what are your surgeons ...
Elie Kis-Young
Mar '20
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Hi, Can anyone share their hospitals practice on staff breaks (circulator, scrub techs, and anesthesia) on total ...
Maria Carmencita Duffy
Mar '20
Joint cases are usually fast. Staff break relief during joint cases would be ideal during closure time or turnover ...
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I was wondering if any other organizations are exploring cloth surgical masks as we face a shortage of supply. ...
Karen Knapp
Mar '20
These are strange times allowing for new ideas. My thought would be that the masks "should" be laundered by ...
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Has anyone changed their PPE practices due to current shortages? Â
Maria Carmencita Duffy
Mar '20
Contributing to the shortage of masks would be theft.
No change in clinical PPE practice, just change in the way we ...
No change in clinical PPE practice, just change in the way we ...
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After reading Lisa Spruce's article in the January 2020 AORN Journal, I'm asking the group for clarification on ...
Rebecca Roe
Jan '20
If I'm taking off the metal band and the stopper then I am pouring the medication--in theory nothing has touched the ...
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Does any one know of evidenced based recommendations regarding the wearing of false eyelashes in the OR as either a ...
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We have implemented a colon bundle including the use of wound protectors, dedicated closing tray, and sterile ...
Heather Kooiker
May '19
You need executive buy in and chief of surgery buy in, our surgeons were told if they want to do surgery at our ...
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Hi
I have found little research/articles (2) on when it is appropriate to insert the foley for GYN cases that a ...
I have found little research/articles (2) on when it is appropriate to insert the foley for GYN cases that a ...
Amy Brunson
Feb '20
While I do not have any evidence, we prep the patient and then the surgeons insert the foley from the sterile field.