In: Nursing
As the CEO of a little 500-bed country clinic. The medical clinic presently has 25 COVID-19 patients. The overseer of materials the executives just educated you that at your present use rate for PPE you will be out of N-95 covers in two days and gloves in four days. The following shipment of the PPE is expected to show up in eight days. The material administration chief further clarified that after flow Centers for Disease Control (CDC) rules for PPE for your staff is causing the high use rate and recommends you have to relax PPE prerequisites for your staff to save PPE to think about patients and secure staff in the coming days.
What should the CEO do in this situation?
What should have the material administration chief done differently?
* What should the CEO do in this situation ?
- In this situation of covid 19 , the preventive measures are essential for the both patient and the staff .
Now in this scenerio the material administration has informed the CEO that staff is using PPE kit and gloves widely amd is going to finish within 4 days . So the management of the CEO should be in such way that there are staff to whom CEO has to instruct that the PPE kit should be used only by the staff associated with covid -19 ward . PPE kit should not be used by the staff working in other wards . This way there will be better utilization and saving of PPE kit . And also CEO will instruct the administration chief to inform the PPE kit shortage prior to the needfull condition and prepare with the stock . Not to arise the eargency of material with little span of time .
* What should have the material administration chief done differently ?
- Role of material administration chief is to monitor the material used by the staff and requirement of all the needfull material and make the list priorly to fit in situation . Chief of material administration could have inform about this scenerio priorly looking towards the eargency and condition of situation rather than notifying CEO with time span of 4 days . And would have been prepared for the stock to come up with shortage .