Employee Safety: An Exhaustive 3-year Quest for 12 Smoke-Free ORs; Northwest Hospital is the first hospital in Maryland to be completely smoke-free.

Ideas That Work: Where Do You Store Patient Belongings?

Ideas That Work: Our Pre-op Bedside Briefing

Ideas That Work: Cover Panels Guard Door; Do Not Enter: UV Room Disinfection in Process

Product News; Great ideas for your OR

10 Tips for Safer Electrosurgery; Use these guidelines to keep both patients and staff safe.

There's That Cataract Van Again; Does outsourcing cataracts make sense for your facility?

Patient Satisfaction: Up Close and Unscripted; Staff at Bayfront Health Spring Hill encouraged to be themselves with patients.

Environmental Stewardship: Blue Is the New Green; The team at Memorial Hermann Surgery Center has found many innovative uses for blue wrap - both in and out of the OR.

Patient Safety: Priority One Protecting Patients; Houston Physicians' Hospital is committed to optimizing patient safety.

Staffing: 4 Tips for Dealing With Chronic Complainers; Don't minimize the potential damage from staff negativity.

Ideas That Work: Mark Breast Tumors With RFID Tags

Ideas That Work:Emergency Preparedness;Fire Evacuation Drills (Not) for Dummies

A Closer Look at Image Enhancement Technology;Help your surgeons see the sharper clarity, contrast and detail they've been missing.

Safety: How Many Pain Pills Do Patients Really Need; match the number of opioids to the procedure to stop overprescribing.

Pain Control: Cruising Down the ERAS Pathway; Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital likes the way the Enhanced Recovery After Surgery program handles its patients' pain.

Infection Prevention: The Instrument Whisperer Has Spoken; Tips on dealing with instrument repair and maintenance.

Ideas That Work: Stay on Schedule; Dry Erase Board Keeps You Uber-Organized

Keep Your Nose Clean: What's your nasal decolonization strategy?

Ideas That Work: Shelf Storage; Never Misplace a Pathology Specimen