Objective To investigate the opinions of operating room nurse (ORN) on enhanced recovery after surgery (ERAS). Methods A questionnaire survey was performed among 215 ORNs in West China Hospital. There were 10 males and 205 females at age of 33.4±8.84 years. Results A total of 154 ORNs (71.6%) thought that we already had very good ERAS theory but we still needed more practice. Thirty-four ORNs(15.8%) thought that the application of ERAS was poor in our clinic comparing to other countries.A percentage of 84.2% (181/215) ORNs thought the criteria to judge whether the ERAS succeed or not should be average days of hospitalization, patients' feeling, and experience and social satisfactions. Besides, 78.1% (168/215) ORNs selected team building as the key point of ERAS success. There were 91.2% (196/215) ORNs who believed expert consensus and ERAS guide should be worked out and propagandized through academic forum or conference in order to popularize the ERAS. Conclusion The theory of ERAS has already been accepted by almost all the clinicians and team building is the best way to make ERAS work well.
ObjectiveTo research on the efficient and scientific management for clean operation room. MethodsWe invited a specialist team to deal with the problems of clean operation rooms in our hospital found by a third-party monitoring organization in June 2012. Through making regulations, installing equipment, strengthening management and distributing responsibilities, we tried to correct such problems as unstandardized number of dust particles, pressure, temperature and humidity. ResultsWithin two months of reforming, under multi-disciplinary cooperation, environmental monitoring of the clean operation room reached the management standard. ConclusionStrengthening the management of operation staff, logistics, environment and equipment can assure that the clean operation room conforms to the national management standard. This can effectively prevent hospital infection and assure medical safety. Multi-disciplinary cooperation plays a very important role through the process.
Day surgery can shorten the average hospital stay and enhance the recovery of patients, and has great social and economic benefits. In order to provide reference for the establishment of standardized operating room management, West China Hospital of Sichuan University summed up the experience of past years to develop this management specification for day surgery operating room. The main contents of this specification include: the principles of scheduling day surgery; the resource allocation of operating room; operating room nursing care, nursing points, and precautions. The release of this specification is conducive to the improvement of the nursing management for day surgery operating room, and the promotion of day surgery.