Explanation Nation Episode 3

Hello and welcome back to explanation.

Nation again.

Missing something music But that's okay.

Um My name is Alex Grant and today we're going

back in time.

Pre covid it is January nine 2019 and these are

just a few precious days before the pandemic has officially

entered in the United States.

The pandemic began in china's most of us know.

Um And we're actually tuning in where Alex Grant is

leading the meeting of um the risk management team discussing

the what if questions um leading up to the pandemic

as it is being monitored.

Okay so let's plan if the pandemic comes to United

States, whether we as the hospital going to provide, I

want to I want a task force to complete um

an evaluation of the processes that we've been doing and

then see if we can limit the amount of hand

to hand contact.

So Roger's team will be able to do that and

you guys will go through each process each department and

conduct an evaluation to see how we can reduce person

to person contact before the pandemic comes to us inventory

management. This is a this is a call out to

all department managers.

I want you to review your inventory now and I

would like for you to adjust.

Um We are going to go ahead and double the

inventory budget for the rest of this month and we

are going to conduct routine searches um to make sure

that we absolutely have everything that we need as a

pandemic. If it if it is going to happen we're

going to have to prepare and so your inventory budget

has doubled.

So department managers, I would like for you to task

some with that.

I would like a report on my desk on monday

week. Take a look at that things I want you

to worry about for your inventory is your hand sanitizer

stations. I would also like for you to look at

your surgical supplies.

If you're part of a surgical team, make sure that

any anything from scrubs, extra scrubs to uh surgical hand

gloves and the stuff that we use and want to

make sure that those things are calculated and that we

are okay with that.

And I also like for you guys to double up

on your face masks.

Speaking of face masks for the risk management team, I

would like to assess when we need to start mass

mandating and when I'm hoping that we can do it

as soon as possible.

And we're also, I would like for that to require

um patients as well.

So if we need to we need to actually triple

R masks as well.

I would also like to change them out.

Um Every time you take, take it off to eat,

throw it away, grab a new one after lunch.

And then if you um and then when you leave,

throw it away and then grab a new one for

your drive home.

So you're not taking any germs that are on the

mask with you going to and from places.

Um then um I like becca your team, you guys

need to figure out who is essential.

I want you to review processes and see if we

can do them at home.

Um for instance, um the risk management team can meet

online um and we can converse through teams, Microsoft teams,

but other than that I would like to organize who

can work from home, who has to stay in the

building, who is essential to the processes of the building?

I want that to be determined.

Um So I'd like for you to go through and

figure out who can stay or who has to stay

and then who can actually work from home and if

so what do we need to provide them to make

sure that they can also work from home comfortably and

able to do their job without having to purchase new

products. Okay.

Uh next I would like to have some ideas on

how we can get the word out to our patients

and staff um lisa what are your plans for that?

Um I know that you said you wanted signs on

the doors.

That's a very good idea.

Um but then we also need to figure out how

to talk to our staff, which I would recommend an

email and several dashboards, important attention announcements sent out through

the Communications that we have through our website and then

also I want pr to go through and I would

like for you to introduce our risk management and how

we are going to conduct ourselves through the pandemic.

I know Rhonda Burgundy on Channel four, she's really good.

We should definitely reach out to her and make sure

that she can report what are new updates are and

mandates are as the pandemic um ensues so that our

patients know when they need to come to the hospital

where to drive for testing and such like that.

So I need our pr team lisa you're going to

be in charge of that.

And I would like for you to go through and

figure out what we can do next uh telemedicine options.

Okay. So I would like each and every one of

you to actually research a certain telemedicine option um that

can go through That can definitely help our doctors and

physicians to remain virtual as much as possible because they

are the ones saving lives.

We need to protect them.

There are major assets along with our nurses and nursing

staff. But in order to reduce the amount of patients

that are doctors see physically will definitely help keeping our

our staff from retrieving the vaccine.

So let's just make sure that we come up with

some telemedicine options.

So each one of you will research that and we

can conduct experiments or do a pros and cons list.

I would like for all of those to be done

by the end of the week.

So if you have an idea of which telemedicine options

were best for especially our team, let's work on that

as well.

And then once you said so we I gave out

several tasks that we need to work on.

So roger lisa Becca, your team needs to have those

tasks completed.

Also shout out to the department managers, you guys will

have to have an inventory countless if we can get

that before the end of the week friday, we will

be in great shape to figure out what we need

to purchase for inventory, what we'll end up having for

communication and then how we will continue servicing our patients

with face masks and mandates and then um the security,

what type of security we need for our team and

what what other things do we need for our team

um and thank you so much for attending the meeting.

Now. We are returning back to 2021 and welcome back

to explanation and uh explanation nation.

Uh that was risk management in action, pretending that we

were part of a risk management um task force um

conducting a meeting about Covid and what that could lead

to and like producing results during a pandemic.

And thank you for tuning in.

That was explanation nation, you guys have a great night

and thanks for tuning in

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