| 英文摘要 |
Medical supplies routine count is the existing pre-process of nursing activities. Fifteen nurses were needed to do the nurse-to-nurse handover daily, each spending at least 16.7 minutes on average. That is mainly because of unclear protocols, multiple storage areas for medical supplies and counting becoming very complicated. Also, staff is required to assist performing routine count on multidisciplinary team’s medical equipment or it is not documented properly when medical supplies are taken away and has not been returned. The project applied PDCA quality control method to investigate why counting medical supplies is so time consuming and then establish appropriate implementations as follows: setting up revised medical supplies routine count protocols, modifying the content and quantity that needs to be included, planning for placing the medical supplies, preparing a sign-in, sign-out board to record when the medical equipment is to be used and making a reminding poster as well as rearranging the management of medical supplies. After the project intervened, it has achieved as follows. 1. Time required for the medical supplies routine count decreased to 5 minutes from 16.7 minutes. 2. Items that were to be counted reduced 67.5%. 3. Satisfaction rate on the routine count reached 85%. It has improved the effectiveness of performing medical supplies routine count and has shortened the non-nursing activity time consumption so that clinical patient care can be reinforced with more time spent on professional nursing field. |
