The exam room supplies area should be kept clean and items should be organized and easily accessible. Items in the supply room should be organized as follows:
Countertop
•Q-tips (long and short)
•Tongue depressors
•Sharps container
•Gloves
•Hand soap
Cupboards – items too tall for drawers
•Chlorhexidine
•FOB cards and hemoccult test solution
•Extra boxes of gloves (one of each size)
•Lube
•Cytology fixative spray
•Dixie cups for drinking
•Styro cups for LN2
•Wound cleanser/saline
Top drawer with some sort of organizer - injections
•Needles: - 30g light brown (1/2”, 1”), 27g (1 ½”), 25g blue (1 ½”, 5/8”), 22g black (1”), 16g (1 ½”),
•Syringes (1cc, 3cc, one 60cc)
•Alcohol swabs
•Spot bandages
Second drawer – wound care
•Bandages
•Scalpel blades (#10)
•Roll gauze
•1x1 gauze
•Polysporin
•Paper tape
•Vet wrap (the ripply stuff that sticks to itself)
Third drawer – miscellaneous clinical supplies
•Tendon hammer
•Spare BP cuffs
•Tuning fork
•Monofilament for DM foot testing
•Thermometer with sleeves if oral thermometer
•Tape measure
Bottom Drawer
•If no space in bed for specs, can use this drawer for specs.
Under Sink
•Extra towels, if necessary
•Spare paper towels
•Extra hand soap
•Spare sharps container
•Extra gloves
Exam table
•Gowns
•Sheets
•Specula
•Pap slides, pencil, blue cases
•HPV Focal Study supplies in main rooms
•Pap sticks and brushes
•Light source
•Pap forms
•Cervical swabs, C&S swabs, and viral swabs
•Panty liners
•Endometrial biopsy and 1 jar of formalin
•Anoscope x 3
Desk drawer
•Pens
•Pregnancy calculator
Desktop
•Lab requisition form stamped with physician’s name
•X ray request forms
•Mammogram referral forms
•Rx forms
•Physical therapy forms