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August 2025 Issue
4.3 CH
The AORN Journal August Issue features the following articles:
- Perioperative Communication Gaps: A Qualitative Exploration
- When Every Minute Counts: Implementing a Preoperative Time-Based Target for Perioperative Nurses to Decrease First-Case On-Time Start Delays
- Guidelines in Practice: Sharps Safety (2.0 CH)
- Safety First: Managing Medication Shortages (1.3 CH)
- Clinical Issues (1.0 CH)
- Sterility of packaged sterile items dropped onto the floor
- Bringing personal bags into the OR
- Using sterile towels to adjust surgical loupes
- Establishing an OR downtime process
- Periop Briefing: Reducing Postoperative Opioid Use in Bariatric Surgery Patients
- And more!
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