Step 1: Safety
- When undertaking quality improvement the safety of our patients, their family/whanau and our staff is our number one priority.
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Step 2: Sorting
- Separating the things you need from those you don't need.
- Sorting through items in the work area and removing what is not essential.
- Removing clutter.
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Step 3: Setting In Order, Straightening, Simplifying
- Organising the workplace in such a way that things are EASY to see, EASY to get and EASY to return.
- A motto often used is "a place for everything and everything in its place".
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Step 4: Sweeping, Shining, Systematic Cleaning
- As the name says, it means to wash, dust, sweep, and clean everything.
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Step 5: Standardising
- Putting standards in place to make sure that everything is kept where its supposed to.
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Step 6: Sustaining
- No matter how well you do on the previous steps, if you don't sustain the gain, you move slowly back to square one. It is important to put a plan in place to make sure that doesn't happen.
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