Vol. XIII, No. 5Archive > May, 2012

Ideas That Work

Post-op meal to go

What can happen when nurses order surgical supplies? They order to bin size, not to par level. "If I can get 30 Jackson-Pratt drains in the bin," they think, "I'm going to stock it full so I won't have to order for a while."

 
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