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What is designed and managed to ensure efficient delivery of appropriate medical and surgical items and devices in sufficent quanities without compromise of function, cleanliness, or sterility when en route to patient care providers?
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Chapter 10

Inventory Control and Distribution

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What is designed and managed to ensure efficient delivery of appropriate medical and surgical items and devices in sufficent quanities without compromise of function, cleanliness, or sterility when en route to patient care providers? Distribution systems
All distribution systems should have what elements? Receiving, Requition, Selection, Transportation, Storage and Handling, and Patient Charging
What area is the first to accept responsibility for supplies recieved into the healthcare facility? Receiving
What process is considered the conrerstone of the distribution system, becasue it provides the information upon which all other elements of the system depend? Requistion Process
What are the most common distribution systems used in healthcare facilities? Demand distribution, par level distribution, exchange cart distribution, case carts, specialty carts, just-in-time (JIT) delivery
This system is a simple symtem. If no requisition is made, no supplies issued. No complicated setup or equipment is involved but labor intensive. Demand Distribution
In this system a predetermined inventory list is prepared for each supply needed by the using department during a given time period. Par Level System
This system is also called a Fixed Inventory Level Par Level System
This system is also called a Total Exchange Cart Centralized Exchange System
What system is considered to be the most efficient system for close inventory control? Centralized Exchange System
What are promarily used in specialty areas such as the operating room, cardiac catherization labaratory, and labor and delivery department? Case Cart Distribution
Give examples of specialty/procedure carts: Code, dressing, respiratory, specialty catheter, isolation, latex free, dialysis, and disaster carts.
How is a specialty/procedure cart used to distrubute supplies? Like a case cart system the carts are stored where they are readily accessible and can be immediately dispensed to the areas where they are needed.
What system is also known as the Stockless Distribution system? JIT Just-In-Time Distribution Systems
What department is usually responsible for inventory control? Materials Management Department
The inventory of medical and surgical supplies can represent up to how much of a facility's operating budget? 40%
Describe the ABC System: A: Items that have a large dollar value but are not used frequently. B: Items that are moderately priced and are used relatively frequently. C: Items that have a low dollar value.
During cycle counts of the ABC system which has the highest priorities and why? A items has the highest priorities because they are the most exspensive.
Define a Reorder Points (ROP's): The reorder point is lowest quanity of an item that can be on hand before it is reordered. This quanity represents sufficient stock to last until the receipt of replacement stock, plus a safety margin to prevent stock-outs. The ROP is based on historical
Define Minimums and Maximums: Like and ROP the minimum is the smallest amount of stock on the shelf before an order is placed for replenshment. The maximum is the largest amount of an item that should be in stock at any one time.
Define Economical Order Quanity (EOQ): The EOQ is the optimum quanity of an item to order. Based on historical data, the EOQ helps prevent overordering.
How long have tracking systems been in use? 10 years
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