PICU Linen Loss
Shared by East Tennessee Children’s Hospital
Category: East TN Children’s Hospital
Floor Stock Procedure
From East Tennessee Children’s Hospital Before a Food and Nutrition employee would have to take a trip to the PICU just to take food inventory. Now the PICU night shift Unit Secretary takes inventory and faxes an inventory request to …
East Tennessee Children’s Hospital “CI Board”
CI Board Explanation This is the continuous improvement board we use in our PICU to help promote and progress daily kaizen. We meet around it weekly for quick 15 minute meetings to discuss ideas, problem solving progress and to celebrate …
CVL / Airway Cart Restocking for Patient Charge Items
A Kaizen from East Tennessee Children’s Hospital and their PICU. Here is an example that is good for patients and staff (less delay) and is good for the organization (better charge capture). Before there were multiple methods of informing Central Supply of …
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Ativan Storage
A nurse voiced her concerns about the time it takes to access Ativan, a medicine used for seizures. PICU and Pharmacy worked together to get to the root cause of the problem and created a process to cut down the …