OR Leadership Essentials: Staffing & Productivity

AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership presents OR Leadership Essentials as a comprehensive course for leaders to hone their skills in the financial and operational elements of perioperative leadership. 

The portions of the course that focus on staffing and productivity will guide you through step-by-step how to effectively develop and defend a staffing plan that supports quality patient care, while reviewing calculations to analyze productivity and performance. 

Principles of Perioperative Staffing

You'll participate in an in-depth analysis of staffing in the perioperative areas, learn how to calculate staffing need, and gain strategies around how to respond to your current workforce challenges.

• Support new opportunities in responding to current perioperative workforce challenges
• Demonstrate how to calculate FTE need, including staffing mix and benefit time
• Analyze the impact that non-productive time creates in your department

Improving Perioperative Productivity

Learners will take a close look at productivity calculations within perioperative services, possible reasons for not meeting targets, and how to handle variations in performance metrics. 

• Define the components necessary to calculate a productivity target
• Calculate the productivity percentile of a surgical and pre/post-surgical department
• Analyze and respond to causes of variation in productivity target performance

With the full OR Leadership Essentials on-demand course, you'll gain insightful applications from renowned nursing finance expert, Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, the keynote speaker for this program, while building your confidence in these critical leadership skills. Plus, you'll earn 8.0 contact hours of continuing education credit.