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As the response to COVID-19 develops and access to essential resources becomes strained, we know that we will all need to work together on solutions to problems that we have never faced before in our lifetime. Learn how to prepare your team emotionally to work together and remain positive during COVID-19 outbreak in our healthcare systems in this blog post.

Growing up, there was a news magazine at the registers of the grocery store called Weekly World News. It ceased publication years ago, but some of you may remember with amusement the eye-catching and unintentionally humorous headlines designed to grab attention and get the customer to add it to their groceries.

Innovative operating room education is crucial to keep nurses engaged on important clinical topics. Improving nurse education is imperative to keeping patients safe in the surgical setting. This new blog post discusses innovative surgical education ideas like gamification.

Transgendered patient’s surgical experiences can create anxiety for the patient and sometimes for OR nurses. Transgender and gender non-conforming patients may defer surgical care to protect their privacy and avoid facing bias. Learn the steps to help build trust with this patient population in a new blog.

As the COVID-19 spreads and operating teams return to elective surgery, learn how perioperative nurses can help battle the fatigue that the coronavirus pandemic brings in this new blog post. How to address COVID-19 operating nurse fatigue is important to surgical team morale and patient safety.

Patterns of incivility are too often accepted in perioperative care. Left unchecked, incivility among perioperative colleagues can lead to bullying, causing physical and psychological damage that can force a nurse to change jobs or leave the profession, according to Brenda Burk, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CSSM, CNOR, director of perioperative services at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, NC.

Learn how to improve your operating room financial knowledge. Find financial tips to create a successful business plan to help your facility save money and keep patients safer in this new blog post.

As we’ve made efforts to decrease the spread of the COVID-19 virus, healthcare workers’ lifestyles and work lives have changed dramatically. COVID-19 healthcare workers are dealing with inadequate personal protective equipment among many other stressors. Learn ways to navigate the stress of COVID-19 in this blog post.

Getting a holiday gift for your surgical co-workers is a fun way to show your appreciation for the work they do all year long.

Learn how frontline nurses can help heal America’s broken healthcare system.

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As the response to COVID-19 develops and access to essential resources becomes strained, we know that we will all need to work together on solutions to problems that we have never faced before in our lifetime. Learn how to prepare your team emotionally to work together and remain positive during COVID-19 outbreak in our healthcare systems in this blog post.

Growing up, there was a news magazine at the registers of the grocery store called Weekly World News. It ceased publication years ago, but some of you may remember with amusement the eye-catching and unintentionally humorous headlines designed to grab attention and get the customer to add it to their groceries.

Innovative operating room education is crucial to keep nurses engaged on important clinical topics. Improving nurse education is imperative to keeping patients safe in the surgical setting. This new blog post discusses innovative surgical education ideas like gamification.

Transgendered patient’s surgical experiences can create anxiety for the patient and sometimes for OR nurses. Transgender and gender non-conforming patients may defer surgical care to protect their privacy and avoid facing bias. Learn the steps to help build trust with this patient population in a new blog.

As the COVID-19 spreads and operating teams return to elective surgery, learn how perioperative nurses can help battle the fatigue that the coronavirus pandemic brings in this new blog post. How to address COVID-19 operating nurse fatigue is important to surgical team morale and patient safety.

Patterns of incivility are too often accepted in perioperative care. Left unchecked, incivility among perioperative colleagues can lead to bullying, causing physical and psychological damage that can force a nurse to change jobs or leave the profession, according to Brenda Burk, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, CSSM, CNOR, director of perioperative services at Lake Norman Regional Medical Center in Mooresville, NC.

Learn how to improve your operating room financial knowledge. Find financial tips to create a successful business plan to help your facility save money and keep patients safer in this new blog post.

As we’ve made efforts to decrease the spread of the COVID-19 virus, healthcare workers’ lifestyles and work lives have changed dramatically. COVID-19 healthcare workers are dealing with inadequate personal protective equipment among many other stressors. Learn ways to navigate the stress of COVID-19 in this blog post.

Getting a holiday gift for your surgical co-workers is a fun way to show your appreciation for the work they do all year long.

Learn how frontline nurses can help heal America’s broken healthcare system.
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