Meeting new staff, learning how they work, and meshing different work styles together to care most effectively for the patients can be a challenging process.

OR Excellence speakers Dr. Sweeney and Dr. Boston-Leary enlighten us on the essential skills surgical leaders need now to help reexamine your pandemic priorities.

Staying current with the latest trends and new technologies is a challenge – particularly during the pandemic when vendors were unable to come on-site for demos.

Read an OR nurse’s firsthand account of battling COVID-19 as a patient in The Periop Life’s latest blog post.

COVID-19 has challenged us to see any positives in our daily OR routines. Discover how to bring some positivity back into your surgical suite .Helpful tips for perioperative professionals navigating a virtual conference during COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us in many ways, including our conversation skills.

Learn how this COVID-19 PPE project in one of the nation’s top COVID-19 hotspots made a difference in patient and worker safety during the coronavirus pandemic in this new blog post.

Gail Horvath, senior patient safety analyst and consultant with ECRI, discusses the current state of supply chain management and what we can all focus on moving forward.

OR Excellence keynote speaker John Boockvar, MD, shares how to incorporate “Gritflowness” into your OR and everyday life.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, nurse burnout, low morale, and fatigue are affecting operating room teams as they return to elective surgery.

Helpful tips for perioperative professionals navigating a virtual conference during COVID-19.

The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired many operating room nurses to go above and beyond. This team of surgical nurses has stepped up to help their Veterans Affairs medical center by helping care for coronavirus patients.

Learn how to network at a surgical conference with these six tips in this new blog post. Knowing the best ways to network will help build your career and better engage with your fellow conference attendees.

As the COVID-19 spreads, learn how perioperative nurses can help battle the pandemic in this new blog post. Changes in surgery schedules, new processes in operating room departments, and low-census cancellation will continue to affect the way surgical teams work moving forward.

Learn how to help prevent infections at an ambulatory surgery center. ASC-specific tips to better plan for an infectious outbreak can be found in this new blog post. Finding out what to do if an infection outbreak happens at your facility will help protect your outpatient surgery team and patients.Test

2020 is the Year of the Nurse as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to honor Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Learn ways to honor and celebrate the nursing profession in this blog post.

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.

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.

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.

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.