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Automating Perioperative Inventory Management: A Quality Improvement Project.

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Preference cards are a foundation for perioperative inventory management processes; however, they can add to nurses' perceived workload, introduce variability into supply management processes, and increase costs. The purpose of… Click to show full abstract

Preference cards are a foundation for perioperative inventory management processes; however, they can add to nurses' perceived workload, introduce variability into supply management processes, and increase costs. The purpose of this quality improvement project was to implement an automated perioperative inventory management system to decrease nurses' workload and increase their efficiency. Goals included improving preference card accuracy, decreasing add-on supplies, and decreasing the supply costs for each procedure. Using a preintervention-postintervention survey design, the project team evaluated the outcomes of workload, preference card accuracy, add-on supplies, and procedural cost. Nurses' perception of workload decreased in the supply management processes and cost of supplies categories and increased in the documenting supply use category. A four-month 7.7% improvement in preference card accuracy reduced the average procedure supply cost by $86.72 for each procedure and saved the hospital $260,467. The number of add-on supplies was reduced by 4,177 for a 20% reduction.

Keywords: improvement; supply; management; inventory management; perioperative inventory

Journal Title: AORN journal
Year Published: 2023

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