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Enhancing operating room (OR) efficiency is essential for healthcare facilities seeking to improve patient outcomes, boost staff satisfaction, and optimize financial performance. In our latest blog, we delve into the critical importance of OR efficiency and how it can be achieved through meticulous planning, continuous monitoring, and the implementation of best practices and advanced tools. Additionally, we explore the transformative role of AORN Syntegrity in standardizing perioperative documentation, improving communication, and ensuring compliance with industry standards. Uncover how these insights can lead to a more streamlined, effective, and successful OR. Read the full blog to learn more about revolutionizing your OR operations and achieving unparalleled efficiency.
In the fast-paced and high-stakes environment of the operating room (OR), nurses play a crucial role in ensuring patient safety and the success of surgical procedures. However, the increasing burden of documentation requirements is contributing to a significant rise in burnout among OR nurses. In this blog, we explore the main causes of this burnout, the toll it takes on nurses, the downstream impact on healthcare revenue, and potential solutions to mitigate this issue within the perioperative setting.
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In 2023, AORN Syntegrity awarded 39 perioperative nursing professionals with Professional Education Grants to attend Expo 2023. See how it all turned out.
If you or your perioperative team is experiencing deficiencies in interoperability, unconscious bias or documentation burden, you can access our free eBook and eLearning webinars via the Pfiedler online catalog for help.
Coding conditions and procedures is the best way to uniformly collect data. But too many codes can also lead to confusion. Find out how your OR team can enhance interoperability?
By streamlining the prior authorization process electronically, CMS believes providers will experience a reduction in documentation burden. Learn more.
Saving and improving the lives of patients will never be cheap. If saving money in the OR is something on your agenda, start by identifying why your OR is so expensive.
Today, data factors into healthcare more than ever before. Learn more about informatics nursing and how this growing field is shaping the way we operate in healthcare.
Most nurses want to be part of making a patient’s experience safer, less scary and more comfortable. AORN Syntegrity is ever striving to improve the nursing experience for operating room teams and patients alike.