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Nurses lament that with outpatient they cannot monitor/require this. They discuss inpatient process where they wash patients in shower in early morning or night before in chlorohexidine. They want to make it part of the pre-op instruction to make them bathe, but not part of it because Drs. assume that everyone does. They admit that nothing about surgery site prep cleaning changes between inpatient and outpatient, because nurses assume even if they do bathe, they are not good at it. But they are concerned about the level of cleanliness of the patient and their clothing when they get to the ASC, thus what they wear out of it. [Free-Standing ASC] Patient instructed to have showered with anti microbial soap night before and morning of.
Patient follows pre-surgery shower instructions
Appendix D. Site Visit Comparison Process | Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality (AHRQ)
Process Step / Facility Feature