OR Leadership Essentials: Finance & Operations On-Demand
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Take the Master Series in OR Finances
AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership and national productivity expert Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN have teamed up for an insightful leadership course to help you fine tune your understanding of financial and operational concepts vital to your success in your role.
This on-demand course includes four two-hour learning modules, and four one-hour recorded Q&A sessions with the instructor. Each module features a detailed handout, supplemental resources, and knowledge checks to deepen understanding and reinforce key concepts.
Tailored for busy leaders in ambulatory and inpatient perioperative services, this online course allows you to learn at your own pace.
After completion of the course and course evaluation, the learner will receive 12.0 contact hours and a Certificate of Mastery.
This program is approved for up to 12.00 hours of AEUs and up to 0.00 hours of IPCHs by BASC Provider #0102.
Module Details:
Principles of Perioperative Staffing
Participate in an in-depth analysis of staffing in the perioperative areas, learn how to calculate staffing needs, and gain strategies around how to respond to your current workforce challenges.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three opportunities to effectively respond to current workforce challenges
- Demonstrate how to calculate FTE needs, including staffing mix and benefit time.
- Analyze the impact that non-productive time creates in your department.
- Apply effective scheduling practices
Improving Perioperative Productivity
Take a close look at productivity calculations within perioperative services, possible reasons for not meeting targets, and how to handle variations in performance metrics.
Learning Objectives:
- Calculate the productivity percentile of a perioperative department.
- Articulate at least three reasons for a department having a nonproductive statistic
- Modify processes to remove waste from current workflow
- Prioritize employee engagement as a strategy to improve financial performance
Revenue & Expense Budgeting
Refine your understanding of organizational measurements for financial success and how you impact them in your leadership role. You’ll gain tactics for successful management of capital and operational budgets in perioperative services.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the measurements used to describe the financial health of an organization.
- Identify the components needed to create a capital purchase justification and where to find the information
- Analyze causes for variation in budgeted verses actual spending
- Develop actions to take to keep spending within budget predictions
Making the Business Case for Safety
Fine-tune your knowledge of return-on-investment calculations and timelines while gaining tools to articulate how your projects translate into enhanced patient safety. This session
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate projects by effectively assessing project revenue and expenses and calculating a ROI or VOI timeline.
- Contrast the difference between tangible (hard) and intangible (soft) costs of errors and the impact of each.
- Choose quality metrics which may be impacted by a process change.
- Demonstrate how providing quality care and creating cost avoidance can be demonstrated in a business case for quality and patient safety.
Meet the Speaker
Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC-FAAN
National Nurse Executive, Author, and Community Leader
Pam is nationally known as a nurse executive, author, financial, quality, safety and strategic expert, and community leader. She has delivered over 500 nursing and healthcare leadership presentations and published on subjects regarding workforce development, strategic planning, connecting to the purpose of our profession, and most notable healthcare finance. Her pioneering work in improving the financial acumen of nursing has enabled thousands of nurse leaders to develop and defend successful proposals and ROI to ensure quality patient care.
