Theatre cleanliness

Re: Theatre cleanliness

bongo — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 13:17:42 GMT

Theres loads of journal articles on this, you just have to search for them. I think doing this and showing your bosses shows you to be a very concientious and caring nurse

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Laura Rosewell DipAVN RVN MBVNA — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:36:09 GMT

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Just a little note, be careful when you use the Airgene - my head nurse set one off in our practice and it set off our over-sensitive fire alarm!

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I have done that too many times!

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Elerrina — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 23:04:57 GMT

Its good we got some changes incoming most notably a door ^^

Re: Theatre cleanliness

bongo — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 19:36:22 GMT

I would suggest you do some research of papers so u have solid evidence to take to your bosses in order to make a change!

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Emma Purnell — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:31:31 GMT

Just a little note, be careful when you use the Airgene - my head nurse set one off in our practice and it set off our over-sensitive fire alarm!

Re: Theatre cleanliness

les punton — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:43:09 GMT

yeah not sure that the bosses will pay for them but rep mentioned about ceiling tiles, maybe good as a little extra - maybe he just swayed me coz he was nice looking haha!

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Phrin Vernon RVN — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:38:54 GMT

We got a couple of those as freebies at last years BVNA congress, and have used them in iso after a clean down. Not sure how effective they are as we didn't do swabs or anything, and of course iso is always given a damn good clean between cases anyway...?

Re: Theatre cleanliness

les punton — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:20:34 GMT

I recently met with the trigene rep and they have a product called 'airgene' that is and air disinfectant. To start with I thought that it would be rubbish, but he did sway me. Have not ordered or used any yet, but have passed the idea onto the bosses. Its an aerosol that you set off in a room leave for and hour then the room disinfected. Obviously nothing betas hands on clenaing, but I thought it may be good periodically or doing theatre before orthopaedics, isolation, or consult rooms after poss kc cases? May be worth thinking about? but as I say I dont know how effective

Re: Theatre cleanliness

A Little TLC — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:19:59 GMT

What she said ^ : )

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Laura Rosewell DipAVN RVN MBVNA — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 21:49:23 GMT

If you're on a mission to improve cleanliness, it might be worth taking some swabs and sending them off for culture. it's something I did fairly often at my last practice. You might be able to scare your vet into forking out for a door with the results! :)

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Susan Jackson — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:08:10 GMT

It might be part of the accreditation scheme and certainly is a must for training practices

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Elerrina — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:50:29 GMT

Yeh i read about cleanliness in the VN times and we've taken a couple of things from it. Yeh thats what i really want is a door but i think its going to be a hard one to fight without any statistics and hard evidence as many prefer the ease of not having to fiddle with doors when taking patients through. Personally id change the whole way theatre is dealt with but its not really my place.

Re: Theatre cleanliness

Catherine Raymond — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 19:47:46 GMT

First and foremost I'd say get a door! In our op room we have a small cupboard which stores our suture materials and then we only have the table, anaesthetic machine and circuit, chair, trolley, drip stand and then a sink unit. Ideally would't have our sink unit in there but it is behind the main tiled area.

I'm sure there was something recently in vet times/nursing times about cleanliness