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Archive > July, 2011 Vol. XII, No. 7

Behind Closed Doors

Treat "Em and Street "Em

Paula Watkins, RN, CNOR

Is your facility in a constant uproar over turnover times? I feel your pain. I've been a travel nurse for 6 years and have yet to visit a hospital where turnover times were considered fast enough. But turning over a room between cases, like medicine itself, is not an exact science. To expect that this process can always be completed within a specified amount of time is to ignore the many variables in your ORs, if not the reality of surgery itself.

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