In July 2013, we ran a competition with Vetsonline, offering the winner one of our popular single column storage trolleys. Mrs AnnMarie Ritchie, RVN, Head Nurse at Boyce & Houston Vets was the lucky winner. She proudly shows off her prize. We contacted her to find out what she planned to do with the trolley and this is what …
We all know that Dangerous Drugs need to be locked away when not in use, and that we need to keep proper records of what’s been bought, and what’s been used, but how many of us are using lockable storage that’s really fit for purpose? In the past, many practices used as their Dangerous Drugs …
I’m writing this on a hot summer’s day, and thinking about ALE. As an acronym, that is. Your storage system may be Accessible – everyone can reach everything, and the most commonly used items are to hand with the minimum of bending and stretching. It may be Logical – items are stored according to a system that …
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Have you done something outstanding this week in your veterinary practice? Perhaps you had a bright idea about how to make your storage areas even more accessible and efficient. Maybe you’ve figured out the perfect colour-coding system that enables everyone in the team to know just which drawer holds what, or you’ve come up with …
When there is a dressing emergency, or a scheduled bandage change: do you have everything to hand? It’s easy for different sized bandages to be mixed up in a grab-box or drawers. Splints can get buried under rolls and rolls of gauze, padding and cohesive bandages. How do your keep your bandaging supplies organised and …
Do endoscopes hang on the back of doors side-by-side with spare scrub-tops? Do stethoscopes get draped over drawer handles? Do boxes of rarely-used antibiotics gather dust at the backs of cupboards or shelves, until they’re needed urgently: only for someone to find they went out of date three days ago? Or do you have a …
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