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Wake med north quality improvement initiative
1. Wake Med North Quality
Improvement Initiative:
Improving Overall Efficiency by
Reducing Operating
RoomTurnover Time
KASEY WILLIAMS
2. Prompt
Design a quality improvement initiative for Wake Med North addressing a specific
developmental opportunity
My developmental opportunity: to improve turnover time in the operating room.
I used a specific study using data and recommendations from Emory University
Hospital Midtown in Atlanta
Looked at study recommendations and noted specific areas of potential improvement
for Wake Med North
3. Problem
Healthcare is in an era of rising costs
and declining reimbursement.
Essential to optimize effectiveness of
the operating room.
In turn, maximizing throughput of
profitable cases.
While also maintaining patient safety and
satisfaction.
4. What is contributing to the problem?
(causes)
High variability
Strictly linear processing
Interaction lapses
5. Important Definitions to Note
Call to Order (CTO) – Final pre-operative check which documents that all items
having to do with patient readiness are accomplished and that the patient is
cleared to be brought back to the OR.
PACU – Post-Anesthesia Care Unit
6. High Variability
High variability = Lack of clearly delineated and defined statuses/roles
This variability affects proper resource planning for the OR
Pre-intervention observations of turnover time ranged from 19 minutes – 2 hours &
20 minutes
Most variability due to time between “stable in PACU (post anesthesia care unit)” →
“call to order in pre-op”
No formal definition of “room ready” – assessment of when the OR is ready to
receive the next patient. This was a subjective definition which differed between staff
members.
Only circulating nurses were allowed to make this designation
7. Linear Processing
2 major processes considered in OR turnover:
Preparing the OR to receive the patient
Preparing the patient to be brought to the OR
OR Readiness
Cleaning the OR and preparing instrument cart for following case
Patient Readiness
Documentation (including history and physical, consent, and anesthesiologist work up)
Performing the call to order
8. Linear Processing (continued)
Preparing the OR and the patient occurred in a linear sequence
Nurse waited for OR to be prepared
Nurse then give “room ready” designation
Then call to order process performed in pre-op area
Call to order is a final check of all patient documentation
This is often the first time missing documents were spotted
If missing/incorrect documents were found… surgery didn’t start on time
CTO was being done AFTER the “room ready designation”
Average of 30 min from turnover onset to complete CTO
9. Interaction Lapses
Many providers involved in day of surgery:
Pre-op Nurse
Circulating Nurse
Anesthesia
Attending Surgeon
Physician Assistant
In this study involving Emory University Hospital… The patient never saw a unified care team or
witnessed formalized handoffs across providers in preoperative, intraoperative, and post operative
periods
I do feel that Wake Med North made a point to involve the care team in at least the preoperative
and intraoperative phase.
Dr. Galland typically sees patients as they are being prepped for surgery before anesthesia performs
their surgical duties.
10. Interaction Lapses (continued)
Day of surgery represents major anxiety for the patient.
Anxiety levels correlated with overall patient satisfaction
Anxiety stems from lack of reassurance and education from medical providers
on the day of surgery
Study noticed a lack of communication between nurses preparing case
charts and the front desk.
Central processing essential to determine approximate closure times of
different operating rooms
Determines preoperative waiting time for following patients
This delays OR readiness and increases patient anxiety
*Wake med north uses telephone communication to keep up with closure
time of different surgeries to gauge when they can get the next patient
started up
11. Solution: Redesigned Turnover Time
Process
Major overall guiding principles
included:
Horizontal integration
Shared responsibility
Systems based approach to care
12. Steps to Improving Turnover Time
Developing a consistent “room ready” designation
Facilitating Parallel Processing
Enhancing the Call to Order (CTO)
Establishing a Core Tech Position
13. Developing a Consistent “Room Ready”
Designation
Circulating nurse and anesthesia personnel educated on
consistent definition of “room ready” criteria to reduce
variability
Room is clean
Accurate case cart is in the OR
2 parties now engaged in common definition
Limits subjectivity/confusion driving significant delays
Shared responsibility forces active communication between the OR
and pre-op team
14. Facilitating Parallel Processing
Call to Order (CTO) moved to early in the turnover process
Earlier CTO hold surgeons & anesthesiologists responsible for ensuring
documentation is complete before CTO
Surgeon checking for updated history and physical/consent form as the
first task prior to CTO – as soon as he/she leaves the OR
Anesthesiologists completing work up for next patient prior to wheels out
(I believe this could significantly improve turn over time at Wake Med)
Earlier CTO → earlier identification of outstanding items → items
addressed quickly
Earlier CTO ensures that OR and patient readiness occur simultaneously
15. Enhancing the CTO
Replace informal verification with face-face verification between
providers involved in surgery (pre-op nurse, circulating nurse, and
anesthesia personnel)
Wake med does a pretty good job with this depending on how busy the OR is
on any given day
Patient now has direct awareness and understanding of the assigned care
team
This increases patient satisfaction
Surgical checklist and time out process intraoperatively = team
interaction
Leads to prevention of potential medical errors
Wake med uses time out procedure consistently before operation begins…
could improve on preoperative use of team communication.
Feel that the surgical team could have more interaction with the patient
before surgery
16. Consistent Surgical Teams
Each surgeon has specific surgical team
Enhances team oriented mentality
Increases fluidity and consistency
Roles more clearly delineated and remain the same for each case
17. Establishing a Core Tech Position
Improvement of communication between sterile processing and the front desk with addition of
core tech position.
Core Tech would be responsible for providing the rest of the sterile processing department with
real-time information on which carts are priorities
Wake med could benefit from this… I have witnessed unpreparedness when it comes to availability of
sterile surgical equipment
Core Tech Responsibilities:
Ensure accurate and complete case carts
Place them with the appropriate OR
Addition of Core Tech would relieve the circulating nurse of equipment duties so that they may be
fully dedicated to patient readiness and charting.
Core tech could be a realignment of existing staff within the sterile processing department –
adding responsibility to current position rather than hiring a new staff member
18. Addition of Anesthetic Procedure Room
Anesthetic Procedure Room would improve turn over time
Enabling anesthesia personnel to start work up and sedation sooner
Could occur at the same time as OR clean up is taking place.
19. Study Results
Statistically significant reduction in mean and standard deviation of turnover time
Mean turnover time reduced by about 21 minutes
46.9% reduction
Standard deviation was reduced by 10 minutes and 32 seconds
0:16:24 → 0:05:52
64% reduction
Incidence of a turnover time lasting ≥ 30 min was reduced from 72.5% to 11.7%
Post anesthesia care unit (PACU) → CTO time
Previously served as longest and most variable time component pre-intervention
Reduced from 0:25:43 to 0:04:00
This is believed to be a direct reflection of moving the CTO earlier in the turnover
process
20. Strengths/Benefits
Redesigned turnover time process produced significant reductions in
mean and standard deviation of turnover time.
Benefit to Hospital Administration:
Revenue generation
Institutions with high case load + reduction in turnover time = additional
caseload increasing surgeon productivity and profit
Cost avoidance
Reduction in turnover time = reduction in staffing costs
Don’t need more staff if efficiency in improved
Therefore more revenue to keep
More refined process = better prediction of resources needed…. Reduction of
excess inventory
21. Strengths/Benefits (continued)
Benefit to Surgeons and OR Staff:
Increased caseload and revenue
Surgeons in general are drawn to institutions where the can perform
efficiently with support of a system that provides fluidity,
responsibility, and consistency.
Improvement of reputation of institution as a whole
Seen as well organized, team oriented/inclusive, and highly efficient
22. Strengths/Benefits (continued)
Benefits to Patients:
Patient focused care
Reduce patient anxiety via reduced wait times and
improved face to face interaction/education with surgical
team
Ensure positive patient experience overall
Safer care with CTO enhancement and time out process
within the OR and pre-op area
23. Weaknesses
Multitude of surgical procedures and specialties.
This quality improvement assessment only takes orthopedics into account
Surgical procedure and times vary widely across specialties
Size of hospital/institute varies results
Institutes with smaller case loads may be understaffed and not necessarily benefit from
turn over time improvement
May not be able to afford separate room for anesthesia procedures
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