A-Stock management

• what?

  A set of principles to help you ensure your department and clinical areas are always stocked with the right equiptment to treat patient when they arrive
• why?

  Reduce excess stock

  staff will have the correct items, quantity and in a good amount of time making it a clean and safe environment for effective care.
• nursing process

  1. prepare
  2. assess
  3. diagnose
  4. plan
  5. treat
  6. evaluate
• audits

  process used by healthcare to evaluate and improve care of patients in a systematic way
• clinical audits


  a way to find out if healthcare is being provided along with standards and letting core providers and patients know how services are doing well and how they improve
• record keeping

  • ensure a timely manner
  • accurate records
  • competent in using all systems
  • confidential and secure
  • recorded factually with legislation requirements
  • avoid abbreviations