“We use ReadyList to streamline bed turnover activities and more quickly prepare a patient room that is 100% nurse-ready. My nurses used to look for infusion pumps like they were on a scavenger hunt. Now, they spend that time practicing nursing.”
– RN & Vice President Operations
at a Top 10 Academic Medical Center
The Challenge
Industry research indicates that nurses spend 12% of their time completing workarounds that are not in their job description. This adds up to one hour spent on workarounds during each eight-hour shift.
When patient rooms are not properly prepared, nurses cannot do their jobs:
- Non-standard cleaning protocols
- Insufficient equipment for use
- Variable, disconnected operations
- Reactive room set-up procedures
- Limited departmental metrics
- Suboptimal relations with support service teams
- Nursing suffers the consequences
Learn more about how the lack of interconnectedness in clinical environments affects nurse-ready rooms
DOWNLOAD NOW ▶The Solution
Nurse-ready patient rooms are properly cleaned and staged with patient-specific equipment and supplies so nurses can stop preparing for patients and start caring for them. This operational model positively impacts nursing satisfaction with each new patient admission.
Characteristics of a nurse-ready patient room:
- Best-practice cleaning guaranteed
- The right equipment is always available
- Lean-standardized operations
- Proactive room set-up procedure
- Real-time operating metrics
- Strong partnership with support service teams
- Nursing peace of mind!
A Case Study
When opening its new children’s hospital, leadership at a Top 10 Academic Medical Center demanded workflows that made it easy for
clinicians to extend excellent patient care. To implement
the nurse-ready room model, they instituted work groups
with representatives from Nursing, Environmental
Services, and Material Services-Central Supply.
The collaborative uncovered a myriad of challenges, then
designed an interconnected set of workflows to prepare
rooms that are always ready for patient care. The result was a nurse-ready room model, built on ReadyList's Inpatient solution, that enables the entire healthcare team to
better communicate and run efficiently.
Read the full case study here:
Learn How
Learn how to implement the nurse-ready patient room model at your medical center in this three-part educational video series from ReadyList CEO, Brian Herriot, a recognized expert in hospital operations. Each video is less than 10 minutes.
What is a nurse-ready room?
Who prepares a nurse-ready room, and what are the main challenges?
How does “nurse-ready” work in practice? A use case.
Download the PPT files of these videos here: DOWNLOAD NOW ▶
ReadyList is the industry leader in the design and implementation of the nurse-ready room
model. To implement your own nurse-ready room with ReadyList, click here.
