Leader Exchange: A Team Approach to Optimizing Your Operating Room
Enhance Efficiency, Safety, and Performance
Listen in as a multi-disciplinary panel outlines their journey to an optimized OR by identifying alignment opportunities and creating a structural framework to lead them to success. By leveraging collaboration and focusing on infrastructure, staffing, and data utilization, this team shares how they’ve enhanced efficiency, safety, and overall performance across perioperative services.
Key Takeaways
- Strategic Alignment: How to ensure cohesive teamwork and communication between surgeons, nurses, and anesthesia
- Analyzing Infrastructure Needs: Addressing the physical and technological requirements of a modern OR
- Staffing in a 24/7 Environment: Managing personnel to maintain efficiency and quality around the clock.
- Use of Data for Efficiency Improvements: Leveraging data to streamline processes and reduce delays.
- Use of Data for Quality Improvements: Utilizing data to enhance patient outcomes and safety.
Meet the Panelists
Michael Meara MD, MBA
Medical Director of Robotic Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General & Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
Heidi Pieper MHA
Program Director, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Program, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
Shannon Thompson DNP, MS, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC
Senior Director of Surgical Services, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital
Moderator: Jake Runion MBA, BSN, RN
Sr. Manager, AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership
Listen In & Be Inspired
AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership presents Leader Exchange, a monthly series of live panel webinars to help you succeed and grow as leader in perioperative services. You’ll hear strategies and tactics directly from your peers that get to the heart of the matter and inspire you in your leadership journey.
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