The document discusses resource and environmental management in healthcare. It outlines the nursing responsibilities for resource management, including ensuring adequate supplies and their proper storage and use. Charge nurses are responsible for inventory and maintenance of equipment while staff nurses monitor supply levels and educate on economical use. Environmental health requires a clean setting to prevent infections. Medical waste is categorized based on potential risks and must be disposed of according to guidelines using proper color-coded containers. Resource scarcity is addressed through identification, recognition, mitigation and control strategies with staff collaboration.

1. Prepared by: Gianne T.
Gregorio RN
CRN
MANAGEMENT OF RESOURCES
AND ENVIRONMENT

2. Resource Management
Resource management is an important
management tool which will be very useful in
getting the right quality and right quantity of
supplies at right time.
The resource management in the health care
system is concerned with providing the drugs,
supplies and equipment needed by health
personnel to deliver health services.

3. Objectives:
 To ensure distribution to the point of
usage whenever required.
 To carry reserve stock to avoid stock
out.
 To have appropriate storage and easy
to retrieve.
 To ensure effective and efficient
utilization of available resources.
 To optimize the use of resources to
meet the needs in an efficient manner.

4. Nursing responsibilities in Resource
Management
Charge nurse
a. Responsible for keeping an adequate amount of
equipment and supplies in the ward.
b. Make sure that equipments and supplies are in
good conditions.
c. Put in a requisition for necessary equipment for
repair and maintenance when needed.
d. Make sure that equipments and supplies are
conveniently located.
e. Make sure that all the personnel in the ward should
clearly know who may use ward articles and
equipments and who assumes responsibility for it.
f. Make regular inventories of all the supply.

5. Nursing responsibilities in Resource
Management
Staff Nurse
a. Keeping in mind the sufficient supply of
materials.
b. Making sure materials are in good
conditions.
c. Checking for misuse and how to
minimize it.
d. Educating the other health care
workers in the economical use of
materials.

6. Storage of resources
 Store must be of adequate space.
 Materials must be stored in an appropriate place
in a correct way.
 Group wise and alphabetical arrangement helps
in identification and retrieval.
 First-in, first-out principle to be followed.
 Monitor expiry date.

7. Benefits of Resource
Management
 Satisfies the demand during
period of replenishment.
 Carries reserve stock to avoid
stock out.
 Stabilizes fluctuations in
consumption.
 Provides reasonable level of
patient health services.

8. Management of Environment
 A clean environment plays an important
role in the prevention of hospital
associated infections (HAI). Many
factors, including the design of patient
care areas, operating rooms, air quality,
water supply and the laundry, can
significantly influence the transmission
of HAI.

9. Nursing responsibilities in
Environmental Health
 Assess environment and detect hazard.
 Consider a clean, well-ventilated, quiet
environment essential for patient’s recovery.
 Focuses on changing and manipulating the
environment in order to put the patient in the best
possible conditions for nature to act.
 Ensure there are separate clean & dirty utility
areas on patient care area.
 Ensure proper waste management.

10. Medical/infectious waste
management
Purpose:
To develop and support the
treatment of waste in order to prevent
environmental; contamination and
maintain public health.

11. Definitions:
 Non-hazardous medical waste – these are described as
ordinary waste.
 Hazardous medical waste – these are the waste generated
from contaminated sources or potentially contaminated
that poses potential health risk.
 Infectious waste – These includes waste that might spread
any of the infectious diseases due to its load of bacteria,
viruses, parasites and fungi.
 Sharp waste – This is the waste that contains sharp items
such as vials and needles, scalpels, lancets, razors,
broken glass or any other sharp objects that has a
potential to cut or punctures through the body.
 Radioactive waste – Are collected in specially designed
containers (as per specifications set pertinent authority)
made of lead or leaded-shield, sealed and bearing the
international logo of radiation Hazard.

12. TYPE OF WASTE COLOR CASE OR CONTAINER
Highly infectious waste such as
culture plates with TB, Brucella or
viruses.
Yellow with clear phrase “highly
infectious waste” (Arabic & English)
with bio-hazard logo.
Waste of human body parts and
organs.
Red with a phrase “hazardous waste”
(Arabic & English) with Bio hazard
logo.
Infectious waste Yellow and with a phrase “hazardous
waste” (Arabic & English) with bio-
hazard logo.
Sharp waste Yellow and with a phrase “hazardous
waste” (Arabic & English) with bio-
hazard logo.
Non-hazardous medical waste Black
Radioactive waste Hermetically sealed containers with
Color coding recommended for
waste bags and containers according
to Hospital Policy

13. Management and Prevention of
Resource Scarcity
1. Identify. Scan the environment for resource
scarcity risks that will move a specific resource
from a state of availability to one of scarcity.
2. Recognize. Identify scarcity impacts on
resources; including where and in what quantities
scarce resources.
3. Mitigate. Create strategies that avoid the use
of scarce resources.
3. Collaborate. It is the Charge nurse’s
responsibility to request supply every week. But
staff nurses should collaborate with the charge to
identify scarcity threats.
4. Control. Create internal policy to mandate
when and how to use scarce resources. Use
scarce supplies economically.

14. Identify the waste
container/color for the
following waste materials:

21. Reference:
 Infection Control Policy PCI 038-V03
 http://currentnursing.com/nursing_management/
material_management_procurement.html
 https://www.slideshare.net/drisyavr1/material-
management-in-nursing