Stavanger, Norway | 12 - 15 May 2022 10th EORNA Congress ePosters 59 eP21 Greening the healthcare supply chain: life cycle assessment of disposable vs. remanufactured medical devices D. Vukelich1 1Association of Medical Device Reprocessors, Berlin, Germany COVID-19 has shined a light on the vulnerabilities in the healthcare supply chain. Medical device and supply shortages, increased waste and cost are all exacerbated by the pandemic. Healthcare itself is particularly toxic as an industry, as recent data shows as published in the journal, Health Affairs. Healthcare professionals are eager for data to guide purchasing behaviour to promote a more circular, less costly and less wasteful supply chains. This session will focus on the role healthcare and its supply chain contribute to waste and greenhouse gas emissions, and one solution, medical device remanufacturing, including a recently published Life Cycle Assessment (in the Journal, Sustainability) of disposable versus remanufactured products. eP22 Implementation of a protocol of perioperative information to the patient’s family members E. Coll del Rey1, V. Fernández Gómez1, B. Gómez López1, P. Gómez Matas1 1University Hospital Virgen de las Nieves, Surgical Block, Granada, Spain Introduction: Surgical-area technique is increasingly important. So that operating-room environment looks cold and hostile for health-system users. Focus on humanization of nursing care, this work considered the possibility of changing such an image. As a result of this concern, a protocol was developed by perioperative nurses to inform patient’s familymembers, while he was summited to time consuming-surgery. Goals: The main objective was to reduce patient’s family-members anxiety while waiting for surgical procedure to end. It was too, to enhance the perception of quality care received in the surgical area. To eliminate variability in the practice of this communication, is a secondary goal just to avoid undesired effects and conflict situations. We also intended to Include family members in patient’s health process. Material and methods: After a bibliographic review the relevance of implementing a nursing perioperative information protocol to the relatives and companions was confirmed. As inclusion criteria, it was aimed at the companions of patients undergoing medium and long term-surgery. Those with surgery of less than three hours are excluded. Other exclusion criteria were; those of emergency surgeries with unstable or high-risk patients or if patient denies consent to informed anyone about his status. Results: A nursing activity to support family was carried out at the information-room. This was a short interview. Conclusions: The concern for the humanization of care is a constant in many of the areas where we care providers work. Piloting this protocol has shown great acceptation among professionals. In addition, a high number of users have expressed their satisfaction with the personalized attention received at very difficult times for them. Although these results have not been measured to date, a quantitative study is been started about the anxiety-state and quality of care received by patient’s family-members in the surgical-block, expressed through specifics questionnaires.
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