Help!!!!!!!!

[doc7592]

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Can anyone tell me what services that they provide to the hospital?
Who cleans Bedside commodes
Sets up traction.
Inventory and restocked code carts.
Cleans fans.
I could go on and on. I am still fairly new as a manager at this facility, but I think somewhere down the line that SPD became the jack of all trades for the hospital. any suggestions?
I'm looking at P&P but am facing diff. with other departments because they dont want to do what should have been there jjob to begin with.:confused:

[lboggs]

Historically, these things have been a function of SPD/CS. However, I've been at my current facility for a year now and here "Reprocessing" had been separated from SPD and is actually staffed as a separate department under Housekeeping. I know that this concept is currently under discussion and we will probably be getting these functions back again in the not-too-distant future. The argument being, we are the experts at cleaning/decontamination.

Nursing/PT has always set up traction everywhere I've been over the past 20 years.

Crash/Code Carts tend to be a combination of SPD and Rx. We do not do them here. Reprocessing cleans them, Central Supply stocks supplies, and Rx stocks the Med drawers.

Everyhting else patient-care related from the floors/units tend to fall under the ausices of SPD/CS. Just depends on where you are.


Larry Boggs :)
St. Luke's Hospital
St. Louis, MO

[sonny1388]

I agree, it sounds like your SPD has become a jack of all trades. Our commodes get cleaned by the housekeeping staff, traction is always done by PT or RN, the crash carts are inventoried and restocked by MST's from ER, and depending on which fans, they are cleaned by housekeeping. The C.S. techs are primarily involved with decon/sterilizing instruments and case carts. It kinda sounds to me that your hospital has allowed the delegation of resposibilities to go a bit too far....still haven't figured out how cleaning fans can be a function of C.S.!

[gigi]

Bedside commodes are the responsibility of the Housekeeping department assigned to each nursing unit.
Traction devices are set up by the nurse aides working on the Ortho wing.
Code Carts are the responsibility of the nursing units.
Fans belong to Maintenance
Our CSP unit provides the IV pumps, pain management pumps, and other equipment of that type. We also reprocess the instrument trays, bedpans and graduates used for measuring urine output used by nursing units and other areas (ER, Birthplace, etc.)

[doc7592]

Will any of you be willing to share with me your policy/procedures for these?