[Project to enhance bone bank tissue storage and distribution procedures].
BACKGROUND
Organ and tissue transplantation are now commonly preformed procedures. Improper organ bank handling procedures may increase infection risks. Execution accuracy in terms of tissue storage and distribution at our bone bank was 80%. We thus proposed an execution improvement project to enhance procedures in order to fulfill the intent of donors and ensure recipient safety.


OBJECTIVE
This project was designed to raise nurse professionalism, and ensure patient safety through enhanced tissue storage and distribution procedures.


METHODS
Education programs developed for this project focus on teaching standard operating procedures for bone and ligament storage and distribution, bone bank facility maintenance, trouble shooting and solutions, and periodic inspection systems.


RESULTS
Cognition of proper storage and distribution procedures rose from 81% to 100%; Execution accuracy also rose from 80% to 100%.


CONCLUSIONS
The project successfully conveyed concepts essential to the correct execution of organ storage and distribution procedures and proper organ bank facility management. Achieving and maintaining procedural and management standards is crucial to continued organ donations and the recipient safety.
Department of Operating Room, Kaohsiung Chang-Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, ROC.
Jui-Chen
JC
Huang
Chiung-Lan
CL
Wu
Chun-Chuan
CC
Chen
Shu-Hua
SH
Chen
D018586:Bone Banks; D004506:Education, Nursing; D006801:Humans; D061214:Patient Safety; D020858:Tissue and Organ Harvesting / Q000379:methods* / Q000592:standards; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement