How To Plan Your Case Cart System

By Brian Carmody, About.com Guide

Whether you have a matrix organization based on service delivery lines, or a more traditional silo and department organization, you must start by building a planning team that includes perspectives from all angles. The team's main tasks are to identify tasks for the planning team, as well as mapping the case cart system process. Finally, the committee must assign responsible parties to those planning tasks and implementation steps. Organized communication and thorough budget planning are the hallmarks of this step.

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• Form A Cross-Functional Committee
• Build The Budget
• Assign The Case Cart Coordinator and The Instrument Specialist
• Measure and Allocate Floor Space in Sterile Processing for the Case Carts
• Chart the Course of Travel for the Carts to be Transported to and from the OR
• Create Standardized Lists
• Plan for Specialties and Emergencies
• Plan for Decentralized Storage
• Measure Your Success

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