Time sure goes by fast. Sorry to have been away so long. I’ve been staying very busy, writing 83 performance evaluations, finishing my totally updated training manual, and learning as much as I can to be a great hospital safety officer.
I’m going to be posting some questions I’ve been asked recently, and give you my answers. I’ll be posting these at least a couple times each week. Hopefully some of the housekeeping questions will be helpful to you.
It was more than five years ago that we changed from cotton towels and mops to microfiber towels and mops. The difference has been dramatic. Fresh mops for each patient rooms instead of going to the closet and dumping your big bucket every three rooms. Towels that clean better and don’t deactivate the disinfectant. Less…
You’ve heard the saying…. “It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.” – Mark Twain. That Mark Twain saying, may seem kind of cliché… but think of it that you are hearing it for the first time; It’s pretty powerful. The quality of ‘fierceness’…
There’s really no such thing as knowing too much about what you’re doing. The reason’s I joined ASHES, ASHE, The American College of Healthcare Executives, IEHA and APIC are many but all focus on one thing, staying informed. Staying informed is a daily task, and challenge, considering how quickly our world is moving. But not…
Most of us understand that floor finish performance is greatly enhanced by allowing adequate dry time. But, few people understand why this is so important and what mechanism is at work. Floor finish contains many independent ingredients such as water, polymer, resin, wax, plasticizer, coalescing agent and defoamer that, when combined together, form a stable,…
Having diverse strengths has always been a bonus, but in the past, you may have been able to get by with a fixed set of abilities or specialties more so than we can today. Those around you that you see as successful are employing everything from shrewd business acumen to honed writing skills and the…