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Improving Patient Safety For Surgical Clearance: A Preop One Stop Shop, Anna Benedictos
Improving Patient Safety For Surgical Clearance: A Preop One Stop Shop, Anna Benedictos
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Problem: Medical clearance is required for patients scheduled for surgery, also known as “patient optimization.” Ineffective and inefficient patient optimization is a major contributor to surgery postponements, procedure cancellations, and patient dissatisfaction.
Context: Ambulatory care clinics often lack resources to medically clear patients prior to scheduled surgery. Poor surgical optimization continues to occur on the same day of surgery, resulting in case cancellation or delay in a suburban, 169 bed community hospital with 9 operating rooms and approximately 500 surgical procedures per month.
Interventions: A nurse-led PreOp One Stop Shop (POSS) utilized a standardized checklist to perform preoperative surgical assessment. …