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In Recognition of Surgical Technologists

06Jun
Green KeyHealthcare

When COVID-19 forced hospitals and surgical centers to halt elective procedures the surgical technologists who do the prep work and assist the surgeons shifted from the operating room to everywhere else they were needed.

In more normal times, surgical techs spend much of the workday on their feet. They prep operating rooms and lay out the equipment to be used. They are also the ones responsible for ensuring everything is sterile and stays that way during a surgery.

They keep track of the instruments, counting them and making sure none become contaminated. When the procedure is over, they may help dress incisions and prepare the patient to be moved to the recovery room.

When operating rooms went dark except for emergencies, technologists showed just how essential they are, jumping in to help care for the influx of coronavirus patients, expanding sterile areas to all public areas and providing relief to other, overworked healthcare professionals.

To honor them during National Surgical Technologists Week which began Sunday, the Association of Surgical Technologists asked its members to tell of the essential work they’ve been doing during this pandemic.

Here are two stories:

  • Surgical tech Colleen Lorenz said she and her fellow techs “participated in the Incident Command call center realigning staffing resources, helped screenings at hospital entrances and helped sew masks for the community.”
  • Kelsea Renninger, a labor and delivery surgical technologist, says pandemic or not, mothers were giving birth and she was there. “I have worked during the hardest hit times of COVID-19, most times working overtime throughout the week, and I won’t change it for the world.”

Green Key Resources is proud of the work surgical technologists do. We join with Americans everywhere to thank them for always being there.

Photo by Austin Distel on Unsplash

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Garner did that just in a series of experiments, doubling his response rate to a survey. The psychology professor at Texas’ Sam Houston State University found that the mere presence of a Post-it on the cover page prompted substantially more responses. Adding a personal note to it increased responses even more. And those who got the personal Post-it were faster to return the survey and were more complete in their written comments.

Even when he tested to see if survey length would have an effect, Garner found that a personal message on the sticky note upped the response rate by 500%. While a 5 page survey got a higher response rate among all three groups — no Post-it, Post-it no message and personalized Post-it — adding just a sticky note alone improved the return rate from 13% (no Post-It) to 40%.

In reporting his research in the Journal of Consumer Psychology, Garner said, “These results suggest that the Post-it generally tends to operate at a somewhat subtle level. When the task is more demanding, however, the personalized Post-it appeal may call greater attention to the personal nature of the request and figures more prominently in a decision to complete the task.”

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Garner’s experiments, Hogan observed, showed that “if a task is easy to perform or comply with, a simple sticky note request needs no further personalization. But, when the task is more involved, a more highly personalized sticky note was significantly more effective than a simple standard sticky note request.”

It’s a good lesson the next time you want people to notice and act on that report or memo. Simply add a Post-it and a quick note.

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As the number of coronavirus cases continues to grow, the demand for healthcare workers is surging.

A Glassdoor analysis well before the outbreak was declared a pandemic, said, “Dozens of job postings for health care workers, scientists and data specialists are popping up as organizations prepare for the outbreak.”

More recently, the report’s author Daniel Zhao told public media’s Marketplace, “There is a wide mix of skills needed… [including] epidemiologists or virologists to registered nurses, down to call center or front-desk workers who are helping handle the influx of community questions.”

Here at Green Key Resources we’re experiencing an even greater increase in calls for healthcare workers, especially from nursing homes and medical centers.

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Even before the coronavirus outbreak, nurses and many other healthcare professionals were in short supply. The situation now has become so critical that New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and Colorado Governor Jared Polis called on former and retired healthcare workers to help.

Cuomo asked that nurses and doctors contact their past employer to “reconnect” with the workforce. New York is sending letters to retired health care professionals and all schools of nursing, public health and medicine encouraging qualified health care personnel to sign up for on-call work.

Healthcare workers anywhere in the nation can also call us at 212.683.1988 or simply upload a resume here. You can also review our open healthcare positions here.

Because of the nature of their job, healthcare workers are particularly at risk of contracting Covid-19. Cuomo said it’s critical to create a reserve of professionals who can fill-in for workers who may fall ill or be ordered quarantined. The Washington Post reported last week that 160 employees of a Massachusetts medical center were quarantined after coming into contact with patients who tested positive. The hospital issued a call for nurses to replace the quarantined professionals.

Nurse.org said Washington State hospitals are hiring hundreds of nurses to help with the influx of cases that have hit the state particularly hard. The report said the Seattle metro area has issued a call for travel nurses from throughout the country to replace nurses who are or will become quarantined and to conduct testing and monitor quarantined individuals.

Quoting the head of a local healthcare staffing firm, Nurse.org says pay rates for these temporary nurses is as high as $2,600 a week. “We really need travel nurses, especially public health nurses, to come work here for at least 13-weeks,” Mona Veiseh, president of the staffing agency told the publication. “These are urgently needed, with crisis pay.”

In particularly hard hit Northern California, San Francisco Mayor London Breed issued an emergency order to expedite the hiring of as many as 100 nurses and health care workers. Special, invitation-only hiring events will be scheduled with job offers made on the spot.

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