6 Hot Trends in Medication Safety; Add these technologies to protect your patients and staff from drug-related harm.

Ideas That Work: 5 Ways to Survive the Fentanyl Shortage

Ideas That Work: Power Pups; Pet Therapy Dogs Work the Waiting Room.

Stay in Constant Communication; Automated text messaging keeps patients engaged and satisfied with their care.

In Search of the Perfect Hernia Mesh; There is no such thing - I know because I went looking for one.

Ideas That Work: Quick and Easy Kid-Friendly Touches

Create the Perfect Cataract Surgery Experience; Pampered patients head home smiling and satisfied with the care they received.

Behind Closed Doors: Practical Jokers; Nothing's more fun than pulling a good prank on your co-workers.

Advances in Image-Guided Sinus Surgery; Enhanced real-time imaging and improved instrumentation tracking let surgeons operate smarter and safer.

Building Trust Between Surgical Teams and Robots; Q&A with Joshua Tyler, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Anesthesia Alert: Cataract Surgeons Giving Anesthesia? Insurer says anesthetists aren't needed for most cataract cases.

Editor's Page; We All Make Mistakes, But Few Talk About Them.

Study Finds Psychosis Drug Amisulpride Reduces Nausea and Vomiting. Small doses of amisulpride, a drug used to manage psychosis, may prevent PONV when given with standard anti-nausea treatment, say researchers.

Disgruntled Central Sterile Employee Shoots and Kills Longtime Nursing Supervisor at Alabama Hospital. Nancy Swift, RN, a 63-year-old nursing manager, was gunned down Wednesday night in her office just outside the the OR at University of Alabama at Birmin

Ideas That Work: HIPAA; Keep the Schedule Confidential

Things only a surgical nurse would understand and appreciate.

Anesthetists share the ingredients to their multimodal approach to 3 painful surgeries.

Is your staff prepared to swing into action to save a patient's life?

By targeting our most vulnerable patients, we dramatically reduced SSIs.

Painkillers are often not the answer to post-surgical pain.