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Archive > April, 2007 Vol. VIII, No. 4

Keeping Construction Under Control

How to manage your place while you expand its space.

John D. Reinke, RN, BSN, CLNC

A floor plan literally changes around you during a renovation or expansion project, you'll need to call on many skills to keep pre-op, OR, PACU and other areas up and running. As a surgical services project manager supervising my fourth construction at as many facilities (a three-OR hospital adding three new ORs and remodeling three existing rooms), I've jotted down some keys to navigating a construction project as painlessly as possible.

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