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Operatory Setup Checklist
The checklist (4 items)
Written as observable actions, so two trainers scoring the same shift land in the same place. In CrewSharp this is the Operatory Setup station in the Clinic / Dental practice starter set, filed under Operatory, and every item here is editable.
- 1Set the room with the correct tray for the procedureMust pass
- 2Barrier-wrapped and disinfected between patientsCritical
- 3Checked instruments were sterile before setting outCritical
- 4Turned the room over within the scheduled gap
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What usually goes wrong
Confirming sterility before setting out is critical and it is a verification, not an assumption. Instruments that went through the cycle and instruments confirmed sterile are two different claims, and only one of them is defensible.
The items a good total should not outweigh
- Barrier-wrapped and disinfected between patients
- Checked instruments were sterile before setting out
When to sign someone off
A workable bar for this station: no critical items missed, a score above a line you set for Operatory Setup specifically rather than one number for the whole building, and observed on more than one shift with at least one of them busy. Then date it, so it can expire.
That last part is the one people skip. A sign-off with no date cannot be re-checked, which means a year later you have a record that says somebody was ready once.
Other clinic / dental practice checklists
The rest of the set, if you are building out the whole floor rather than one position.
Common questions
What is the most common operatory turnover failure?
Compression when the previous appointment overruns. The turnover is the only flexible time in the schedule, so it absorbs every delay, and the steps that get shortened are the ones that must not be.
What should be on a operatory setup checklist?
The 4 items above cover it: set the room with the correct tray for the procedure, barrier-wrapped and disinfected between patients, checked instruments were sterile before setting out, and the rest of the list. Keep it in that range. Fewer and a pass proves very little; many more and trainers stop finishing it during a real shift.
Which items should count as critical?
On this station, 2 items are marked critical: barrier-wrapped and disinfected between patients; checked instruments were sterile before setting out. Missing one means not ready, regardless of the total score, because these are the failures that cannot be corrected after the fact.
Scoring it is the part that lasts
Run this Operatory Setup checklist on a tablet between rushes and CrewSharp keeps the rest: who is signed off, when it was last checked, and which item your crew misses most.
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