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Learn how mentorship can help you gain confidence, develop essential skills, and advance your career in perioperative nursing. Discover tips for finding a mentor and becoming a mentor yourself.

Test your knowledge about moderate sedation with this matching game.

Highly reliable data collection processes are necessary not only to chronicle a patient’s response to nursing interventions and clinical improvement of the patient, but also to demonstrate the healthcare organization’s progress in and dedication to improving outcomes.

In this week's Periop Life blog, trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator Marie Nutter, BSN, RN, CNOR, shares five simple exercises to help nurses reconnect and build resilience.

Fayoke Fatade, a perioperative nurse leader at Stanford Health, balances patient care, team leadership, and the challenges of healthcare. Raised in Nigeria by nurse parents, Fayoke shifted from dreams of surgery to nursing, driven by meaningful patient connections.

Your scrub person is the direct link between you and the patient. If they have what they need, the surgeon has what they need. If they are not stressed, they present a calm front to the surgeon.

See how one perioperative leader learned a valuable lesson in OR nurse retention strategies by implementing standardized onboarding education, and how she calculated Periop 101: A Core Curriculum return on investment to gain approval from decision makers in her facility.

Train and retain new nurses with advice from a successful preceptor/orientee team. Get practical advice from Cleveland Clinic

As a new nurse, how do I talk to sales reps about not opening supplies directly onto the sterile field?

In this week’s Periop Life blog, discover how a multidisciplinary team at MD Anderson Cancer Center implemented the I-PASS tool to improve hand-offs across departments.

It’s time to recognize your influence and make the most of your purchasing power. By leveraging your expertise and advocating for the products that truly benefit patient care, you can play a vital role in ensuring your facility invests in the best tools and technologies available.

Test your general perioperative knowledge with this crossword puzzle.

Not only are travelers filling in gaps for overworked staff, but they are also helping ensure that patients still receive the care they need.

Retention and the right feedback approach go hand-in-hand.

An update published in the 2022 Guidelines for Perioperative Practice includes these key recommendations that every team can implement to prevent pressure injuries.

In this week’s Periop Life blog, we explore how intra-op repositioning assessments can significantly boost patient safety. With 65% of surgeries missing critical positioning checks, these simple yet impactful strategies can help your OR team catch unnoticed patient movement and prevent complications.

Homework involves collecting the correct supplies and instruments for a case, knowing the basics of the type of surgery to be performed, and preparing for the “what ifs.”

I was proud knowing I was able to speak for the best interests of this patient and her quality-of-life post-breast cancer.

Since 2017, I’ve been working on an innovative project called Virtual Nurse, which I recently presented at the AORN 2024 Congress in Nashville. Virtual Nurse is an immersive and interactive virtual reality software designed to train both nursing students and professionals in the perioperative environment.