time out boards

Specialties Operating Room

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hi!!

Wondering if any one uses a "time out" grease board in the or.

If so....where did you purchase the board?

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Specializes in OR, Nursing Professional Development.

We don't have grease boards, but we do have posters printed by the hospital posted that tell us what must be included.

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Specializes in OR, Surgical Technology.

We have dry erase marker boards, that are mandatory that we write all of our time out info...no idea where they were purchased.

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Specializes in PeriOperative.

We have dry-erase boards hanging in each OR that we must fill out prior to the patient coming in and then read from during the time out. They are just standard dry-erase boards that you can find at any office supply store and there are labels (patient, procedure, site, mark, allergies, etc) that were made and glued to each board. I know we had them "made," I'm not sure by whom.

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Specializes in OR.

We use a regular dry erase board and made labels to place on them. We fill it out with all the time out information before bringing a pt. into the OR. We also have bright orange towels on the mayo stands that say TIME OUT. They are removed once the time out is done.

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