Improving room layouts for venepuncture, cannulation and ABG equipment on surgical wards.

ABSTRACT: The Productive Ward series has effectively helped to standardise the storage of equipment in hospital ward treatment rooms; however, in our organisation equipment for venepunture and cannulation had been excluded. This resulted in clinicians having to navigate several unfamiliar environments while on-call and hence waste valuable time searching for basic equipment. We aimed to make it easier to locate and identify the basic equipment used for cannulation, venepuncture, and arterial blood gas sampling and more efficient to collect. We examined the initial layout of equipment on four surgical wards in a large teaching hospital. The time taken for junior doctors, nurses, health care assistants, and physician assistants to gather equipment on these wards was recorded along with a process map o

SUBMITTER: Pedley R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4663844 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature