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cord-347013-nt6jmmcw	Retzlaff, Kimberly J.	COVID‐19 Emergency Management Structure and Protocols	2020-08-28		.txt	text/plain	2208	107	42	Perioperative leaders have shown agile responses, including quickly pulling together and mobilizing incident command centers, augmenting and modifying existing emergency management protocols, working together to agree on COVID-19 clinical protocols, and enhancing communication efforts with their teams to keep everyone apprised of the rapidly changing situation. Protocol changes included new requirements for staff member, patient, and visitor screening; conversions of physical spaces; careful consideration when determining which surgeries are urgent or emergent and must proceed; and updated PPE requirements. During the pandemic response, staff members manning the doors to health care facilities have relied on screening tools and questionnaires-such as the one developed at Roper St. Francis Hospital in Charleston, South Carolina (Sidebar 1)-to help determine whether visitors might be infected. These changes required perioperative and other nursing leaders to collaborate with the information technology team members to convert rooms and ensure nursing staff members could document patient care in the electronic health record.	./cache/cord-347013-nt6jmmcw.txt	./txt/cord-347013-nt6jmmcw.txt