April 2023

The healthcare industry is highly regulated and all organizations must adhere to specific requirements to ensure they are providing high quality...

In this inaugural online column, A Day in the Life of an Administrator, we sat down with Karen Reiter, RN, CNOR, RNFA, CASC, vice president...

The healthcare industry heard the jarring news in January: 7,600 people bought bogus nursing diplomas with cash from three South Florida schools and were now...

If you’re serious about sustainability in the OR, then you’d better be focused on your glove purchasing practices....

According to the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States (MHAUS), malignant hyperthermia (MH) is a potentially fatal inherited...

There’s nothing easy about cleaning flexible endoscopes. They’re fragile and expensive and one can argue the margin for reprocessing them safely is...

The number of unintended retained surgical items (URSIs) reported to The Joint Commission (TJC) continued to decline in 2022, with 88 events disclosed...

Accreditation is much more than a simple stamp of approval. It’s evidence your facility has met meticulous, nationally recognized standards of quality, patient care and safety....

Just because an instrument has been reprocessed doesn’t mean that it’s clean. In some cases, that’s because reprocessing techs are rushing and forced...

Multimodal pain management has a domino effect on surgical outcomes: By using this approach, facilities reduce opioid use, which often translates into...

You might be surprised by how many ophthalmologists suffer from occupational injuries that in some cases shorten their careers....

If you want your staff to recall their training long after the in-service is done, you’ve got to make it fun, engaging and challenging....

Rewarding staff for preventing errors and keeping patients safe are the means to an end every surgical leader strives to achieve...

Got a room or small section of your facility that isn’t being fully used? Consider turning it into a place where staff can go to unwind and recharge....

The nurses at Nemours Children’s Hospital’s NICU, located in Wilmington, Del., have developed various crafty ideas using NICU babies’ hands and feet...

Even when endoscopy staff are well-taught and well-trained, accidents happen in what can be fast-paced, high-volume environments at GI centers....

I’m speaking with Bill Duffy — past AORN president, current board member, director of a nursing school and proud nurse...

The American Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Medicine (ASRA Pain Medicine) recently released the first U.S. guidelines on cannabis use in relation to surgery....

A healthy patient population is a cornerstone of outpatient surgery. Those fortunate enough to be greenlighted for same-day procedures get to...

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has....”