How to Efficiently Onboard New Staff Members in Your OR

Virtually all hospitals in this country are understaffed and overcrowded these days, thanks to the Delta variant. The result has been many larger hospitals are finding it necessary to export elective surgeries and other procedures to ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) and physician-owned hospitals.

With that sudden influx of new patients, these smaller facilities are scrambling to gain as many efficiencies as they can to not only give patients optimal care but also to make sure their facilities can maximize profits. A big part of ensuring quality care is hiring staff; and a big part of maximizing profits is to get them onboarded quickly and efficiently.

That’s where we come in. By using the DinamicOR Back Table Solution in tandem with the DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App, surgery centers and physician-owned hospitals are finding that they can streamline and simplify the onboarding process so new staff can become productive more quickly.

How DinamicOR can help 

The DinamicOR Back Table Solution includes the Adjustable Back Table, the Durable Drape, and the DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App. Once your staff has familiarized themselves with the DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App and you’ve customized it to include your own facility-specific procedures, it can be used to onboard new hires. The powerful DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App lets you can map your facility’s preferred tray layouts so that OR procedures are be made efficient and repeatable.

Your OR surgical team will then be able to immediately find and retrieve critical instruments, thus saving critical moments. You’ll also be able to document your surgical procedures in the DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App, which is an incredibly efficient way of training and educating staff members and new hires in all the medical procedures that may need to be performed.

All workflows routinely followed in your facility can be documented in the DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App and shared with staff members so they can instantly recall the step-by-step routine. All notes and diagrams can be stored in this central location, and then disseminated to all operating rooms for consultation. Not only will you be able to onboard your personnel more quickly and uniformly, but you will be introducing an element of standardization to all your OR procedures.

A streamlined way to onboard.

With the extreme crunch associated with personnel shortages and the huge numbers of incoming patients, there really is no time to waste on slow, laborious methods of training newcomers. The DinamicOR+ Workflow Management App will free up individuals who would otherwise need to conduct the training, and it will get new hires on the job and productive in a much shorter time frame.