SPD Manager, Jodie Lockwood, explained. “We would not have that with the new space. We had to think about how were going to get clean case carts down to OR and get dirty ones back up to decontamina- tion. We also had to find a way to provide outside clinics access to decontamination without clinic staff having to gown up.”
The supporting structure for success Before the move, Lockwood and Edna Gilliam, DNP, MBA, RN, CNOR, Assistant VP, Perioperative Services & SPD, DV, Nemours Children’s Hospital, worked to build a collaborative supporting structure for success that includes weekly huddles between the SPD and OR teams, account- able action plans to address issues as they arise, tracking and reporting of quality metrics, and the application of these met- rics to drive continuous improvements. “Our last Joint Commission survey and
mock survey produced no findings in SPD. That speaks to the quality that we have invested in our department, our teams, and their efforts,” said Lockwood.
A coordinated, collabora- tive approach pays off Lockwood and Gilliam partnered with other members of the SPD and OR teams to facilitate a seamless transition for the SPD move. “A lot of coordination needed to happen
between both teams to make sure we could seamlessly transition from the old SPD going offline to the new one going online,” said Gilliam.
They established a multidisciplinary incident command structure and held multiple meetings each week leading up to the transition where leaders from the SPD, OR, IT, infection prevention (IP), environmental services (EVS), construc- tion, and regulatory teams collaborated on designing the new space and related workflows around it. “These meetings provided the opportu- nity for immediate discussion and resolu- tion of issues because everyone was in the room, as opposed to a disjointed approach where different stakeholders were individ- ually attempting to work through action items,” said Gilliam. “For example, with the help of IP and regulatory, we estab- lished dirty and clean sides of the hallways through which case carts would travel and visibly marked that distinction, so it was clear to people walking the halls.” “We performed a ‘walk in the life’ where
our frontline staff members simulated mov- ing case carts from point A to point B,” Lockwood explained. “This allowed us as a team to identify issues and concerns before we went live in the new space.”
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According to Lockwood and Gilliam,
the preplanning, communication, and col- laboration paid off. “The SPD was able to move with no interruption to the OR. It was seamless,” said Gilliam.
Recognition from the top Executive leaders for Nemours Children’s Hospital Delaware Valley understand the critical importance of the SPD to effective and safe perioperative services. This was evidenced by the hospital’s investment in its new SP department.
STERILE PROCESSING “We know the SPD is the heart of the
hospital, but I think people lose sight of that sometimes,” said Lockwood. “Building a new SPD with state-of-the-art equipment – it has about everything we could ever want – spoke volumes about how much we are valued. Alongside the financial investment, my team was there at the table helping make decisions on the new space. I think the SPD team for the first time really felt they had a voice in what was happening.” HPN
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