DECREASING ABNORMAL RATE OF MEDICAL SUPPLY: TO EMPLOY MULTI-DISCIPLINE MEDICAL TEAM WITH INFORMATION COOPERATION

Chen-Yi Wang 1, Yi-Tseng Tsai 1

1 Department of Nursing, An Nan Hospital, China Medical University, Tainan, Taiwan, Tainan, Taiwan

Medical supplies, medical environment, and   patient’s security had something to do with one another. Once medical supplies did not manage well, conduct expired or contaminated ones to induce infection issues within patients, it would threaten patients’safety even their lives.The study suggested that medical supply expense in regional hospitals of Taiwan occupied the organizational operation 30% to 50 %.With the severe competition in medical markets and changes of health insurance payment, hospitals took on more and more stress on medical quality and financial responsibility. Under the premise of pursuing service quality of medical atmosphere, finding resources and saving cost and expense became challenges of management. According to the analysis on January to October of 2021, the frequency of applying for medical supplies in nursing units was 46,033. Among them, abnormal rate of medical supply was up to 35.50 % (16,340 / 46,033 x 100%), and the monthly average was 1,634 and daily average was 54.46.When the unit applied for a few of medical supplies, the preparation of medical supply personnel to the transferring of goods for single time would take 30 minutes per person.The cost of man power (cost NT$148 per hour) changed into daily extra expenditure was NT$4,030, the monthly expenditure was NT$120,901, and the annual expenditure was up to NT$1,450,814.