Daily Congress Schedule - Wednesday, March 18, 2009
6:15 am
AORN Foundation 5K Run/Walk. Register to run/walk for patient safety!
7 am - 5 pm
Poster Display Sessions
8 - 9:30 am
Second Forum
Join us for an informal discussion of items that will be brought to the House of Delegate’s such as revisions to the AORN Bylaws, revised position statements, and committee and task force activities and reports. All Delegates are requested to attend. Contact Hours may be awarded based on content.
Concurrent Education Sessions
8 – 9:30 am
How to Sing in the Rain with a Frog in Your Throat
Maureen Murray, MEd, MSEd
Session 2432, 1.5 CH, Track: P
You’ll laugh while you learn practical strategies to create positive solutions to stress. This high-energy program delivers a powerful message: you can’t control the major events in your life, but you can control your reaction with a humorous perspective. This program will put you back in the driver’s seat of your life by providing you with practical tools for managing those everyday stresses that deplete your energy and dampen your enthusiasm. You’ll learn to use humor to deal with difficult people and situations, create perspective and balance in your life, enhance communication, unlock problem-solving ability, and stay healthier in the process.
Perioperative Performance Management
Ralf Jeworowski, RN
Session 2433, 1.5 CH, Track: L/M +
Business intelligence (BI) has transformed the performance management of many parts of the hospital. Now find out how
you can easily leverage BI techniques in the perioperative suite in order to improve effi ciency and quality. Learn how simple process changes and applying BI will help you to identify good practice and areas of opportunity in the OR. Measure the impact of ontime case starts, throughput, billing readiness, and documentation completeness.
Sterilization Efficacy: Myth, Sacred Cow, or Reality?
Charles Hughes, BS; Elizabeth (Betsy) Vane, RN, MSN, CNOR; Linda Wanzer, RN, MSN, CNOR
Session 2434, (Will be repeated in Session 2470 on Thursday) 1.5 CH, Track: C +
How much do you think you know about sterilization efficacy? This presentation will be a journey of discovery as we test your knowledge related to sterilization effi cacy and provide information regarding the “why” behind what we do. Discussion of sterilization issues/quality controls will be the platform for information dissemination needed to ensure effi cacy of the sterilization process. Perioperative managers need to be intimately involved in the oversight for this process to ensure this aspect of perioperative care is delivered without incident.
Implementing Recommended Practices
Alice S. Comish, RN, BSN, CNOR
Session 2435, 1.5 CH, Track: C +
AORN’s recommended practices, all of which directly or indirectly promote patient safety and/or infection control, were developed as guidelines for achieving optimal patient care in the perioperative setting. This presentation reviews the recommended practices process and identifies innovative strategies for implementing them in all settings where operative and other invasive procedures are performed. Management, education, and staff perspectives will be explored.
Operating in a LEAN Environment: It’s Not about RIFS, It’s All about the IDEAL
Valerie E. Otey, RN
Session 2436, 1.5 CH, Track: L/M +
Continual process improvement just won’t go away. Using “Leadership Eliminating waste, Act now, Never-ending” (LEAN) methodology tools will assist you in achieving and sustaining process excellence that is implemented by your staff. This session will explain the LEAN tools, demonstrate their application, and describe improvements that can occur. Just as we use check-off lists to make sure patients are ready for their surgical experience, the use of LEAN tools will provide immediate feedback for processes that need to be corrected. When the tools are used appropriately, your staff will be able to make the corrections as they learn to do things differently.
Patient Positioning 101 — Back to Basics
Robert B. Dybec, RN, MS, CPSN, CNOR
Session 2437, 1.5 CH, Track: C +
This session will provide a review for the seasoned perioperative nurse as well as a great educational tool for the new nurse in the OR. All aspects of patient positioning for the perioperative nurse will be discussed including basic positions used in surgery, positioning complications, and liability related to positioning, as well as adult, geriatric, pediatric, and obese patient positioning. The 2008 AORN recommended practices on patient positioning will be reviewed. Sponsored by: Action Products, Inc., Medical Products Group
New Approaches to the Intraoperative Management of HepaticTumors
Angela Davis-Edwards, RN BSN CNOR; Germaine M. Williams, RN BSN CNOR
Session 2438, 1.5 CH, Track: C +
Carcinoma of the liver often occurs as a metastatic process in 80% to 90% of patients. The best outcome for patients suffering from the disease is achieved through surgical excision. Unfortunately, 75% of patients are not surgical candidates. The presentation will discuss the conventional method of surgical excision as well as newer technological advancements in the management of hepatic tumors. The presentation will describe the use of radiofrequency ablation and microwave coagulation to ablate hepatic tumors. Patient outcomes will be discussed as well as new developments that are taking place at our facility in the fight against liver cancer.
IT: The Decision Partner of Surgery
Jon Correia, RN, BSN, BS, MBA, MHA, CNOR
Session 2439, 1.5 CH, Track: I +
Increased focus on cost containment, patient safety, and efficiency is driving surgery departments to change how they operate and requiring nursing leaders to push far beyond their traditional, clinical role. Today’s nursing leadership needs an extensive blend of knowledge that includes clinical practice, materials management, physician relationships, quality monitoring, fiscal responsibility, and more. Information technology is the “survival key” that will help nursing leadership to make decisions that positively affect patient, financial and operational outcomes. This session will help nursing leaders to understand the variable costs that impact surgical services; to identify metrics that will help them measure and improve their processes; and to learn how to utilize information Technology to align the goals of surgical services with the goals of the hospital.
No Margin, No Mission: Evaluating New Services and Products for Profitability
Pamela Hunt, RN, MSN
Session 2440, 1.5 CH, Track: L/M
Creating a margin with a new product or service line has to be part of our mission. Nursing leaders are being asked to play a very active role in evaluating costs verses reimbursement and determining the return on investment. The participant will be able to adequately evaluate any service or product to determine breakeven points and profitability.
An Administrator’s Guide to Dealing with a Business Valuation Consultant
Curtis Bernstein, CPA/ABV, CVA, MBA
Session 2441, 1.5 CH, Track: A
This session will explain why data is requested and how a valuation analyst uses data to value an ambulatory surgery
center (ASC). Uncovering the underlying value of an ASC will be discussed, and the speaker also will describe the preparation needed for the valuation process to achieve the best value for the ASC’s purpose.
Predictable and Efficient Processes = Life Balance
Brandon Bennett, RN, MSN, CNOR, CNA, BC; Marilyn Bash, RN, BSN, MBA
Session 2442, 1.5 CH, Track: P +
Would a smooth-running, highly effi cient OR make any difference in your work-life balance? Could it help you satisfy
your professional and personal goals? Hear how one medical center transformed its OR from a reactive operation into one that consistently uses predictable and effi cient processes. Hear their stories of interlocking accountability, backup systems, and supporting technology. Through a comprehensive change effort, Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wa now achieves maximum, sustainable results in performance and satisfaction. Come and hear how to transform your team into a top performer with results that will satisfy your professional goals and personal life.
8:30 - 10 am
Managers’ Exhibit Floor Hours
Get the special industry attention you deserve and find out more about the latest solutions for the OR.
10 am - 3 pm
Exhibit Floor Opens
Managers' Program - Morning
10 – 11:30 am
Critical Success Factors — Improving Patient Safety in My OR
Anthony Dawson, RN, MSN
Session 2443, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MO +
In this session you will learn how to differentiate your hospital with an effective quality and safety program in the perioperative setting. Apply the National Patient Safety Goals to your OR and learn from past mistakes. Make data work for you and get the tools and templates you need for effective analysis of the quality and safety measures at your facility. Error-proof your organization against future events.
Something to Talk About: Creating Healthy Work Environments Through Communication!
Pamela Hunt, RN, MSN
Session 2444, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MWF +
Excellent communication skills are essential in health care. Communication promotes a smooth-functioning team,
collaboration with physicians and other healthcare departments and allows us to deal with families that are in crisis. But why can’t we get along? This presentation will explore common personality types that are diffi cult to work with and how we should respond to promote teamwork and goal achievement. Also included is how to coach people into accepting confrontation without destroying the relationship.
Student & Faculty Program
9 am – 3 pm
AORN is pleased to offer this special program to Faculty and Student Nurses. Come and join us for this unique one-day Student & Faculty Program designed just for you.
10:30 am – 12 pm
Forming Partnerships to Educate Nursing Students (Faculty, Part 1)
Kathleen B. Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR, CNE, ANEF
Nancy Langston, PhD, RN, FAAN
Jane C. Rothrock, DNSc, RN, CNOR, FAAN
Patricia C. Seifert, RN, MSN, CRNFA, FAAN
Session 2445, 1.5 CH, Track: P +
The first part of the program will include discussion about the opportunities and challenges in using perioperative patient care settings for clinical rotations and a review of innovative educational strategies for assessing critical thinking, skill mastery, and knowledge acquisition.
1:30 – 3 pm
Forming Partnerships to Educate Nursing Students (Faculty, Part 2)
Joy Don Baker, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, CNOR, NEA-BC
Debra L. Fawcett, PhD, RN
Linda M. Sigsby, RN, MSN, CNOR
Session 2446, 1.5 CH, Track: P +
The second part of the program will include a description of the necessary steps in assessing your perioperative environment and its readiness to incorporate students and identification of strategies for approaching a nursing program to offer your perioperative setting as a clinical site.
Managers' Program - Afternoon
1:30 – 3 pm
Perioperative Services: Supply Cost Management
Margaret Camp, RN, MSN
Session 2447, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MO
In the current environment, perioperative directors and managers are challenged on a daily basis to control and manage supply costs. Faced with the realities of decreasing reimbursement and a continual flow of expensive new supplies and equipment, directors and managers struggle to find solutions to manage their supply expenses. This session will offer creative and innovative strategies to assist in managing and controlling supply expenses.
Coaching & Retaining Your Talent
Bruce C. Lee
Session 2448, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MWF +
This session will discuss how to turn good employees into great employees by high achievement created through high
expectations, trust, and being challenged to grow potential through insight and encouragement. A recent study found that
only 50% of employees are satisfi ed with their work at the end of the week. Understand what the dissatisfi ers are and how to turn them around. Learn methods to consistently get the best project performance and work behavior from your employees.
3:30 - 4:45 pm
Perioperative QuizBowl: Evidence-Based Practice
Renae Battié, RN, MSN, CNOR; Kathleen Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR; Peter Graves, RN, BSN, CNOR; Cecil King, RN, MS, CNOR, CNS; Judith Pins, RN, BSN, MBA
Session 2449, 1.2 CH, Track: P +
This unparalleled, action-packed session will have a game-show atmosphere with content unique to perioperative nursing. This General Session engages the audience and enhances everyone’s knowledge base.
5 - 6 pm
Future of Nursing
Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, ScD(h), FAAN
Session 2450
AORN Foundation 5K Run/Walk. Register to run/walk for patient safety!
7 am - 5 pm
Poster Display Sessions
8 - 9:30 am
Second Forum
Join us for an informal discussion of items that will be brought to the House of Delegate’s such as revisions to the AORN Bylaws, revised position statements, and committee and task force activities and reports. All Delegates are requested to attend. Contact Hours may be awarded based on content.
Concurrent Education Sessions
8 – 9:30 am
How to Sing in the Rain with a Frog in Your Throat
Maureen Murray, MEd, MSEd
Session 2432, 1.5 CH, Track: P
You’ll laugh while you learn practical strategies to create positive solutions to stress. This high-energy program delivers a powerful message: you can’t control the major events in your life, but you can control your reaction with a humorous perspective. This program will put you back in the driver’s seat of your life by providing you with practical tools for managing those everyday stresses that deplete your energy and dampen your enthusiasm. You’ll learn to use humor to deal with difficult people and situations, create perspective and balance in your life, enhance communication, unlock problem-solving ability, and stay healthier in the process.
Perioperative Performance Management
Ralf Jeworowski, RN
Session 2433, 1.5 CH, Track: L/M +
Business intelligence (BI) has transformed the performance management of many parts of the hospital. Now find out how
you can easily leverage BI techniques in the perioperative suite in order to improve effi ciency and quality. Learn how simple process changes and applying BI will help you to identify good practice and areas of opportunity in the OR. Measure the impact of ontime case starts, throughput, billing readiness, and documentation completeness.
Sterilization Efficacy: Myth, Sacred Cow, or Reality?
Charles Hughes, BS; Elizabeth (Betsy) Vane, RN, MSN, CNOR; Linda Wanzer, RN, MSN, CNOR
Session 2434, (Will be repeated in Session 2470 on Thursday) 1.5 CH, Track: C +
How much do you think you know about sterilization efficacy? This presentation will be a journey of discovery as we test your knowledge related to sterilization effi cacy and provide information regarding the “why” behind what we do. Discussion of sterilization issues/quality controls will be the platform for information dissemination needed to ensure effi cacy of the sterilization process. Perioperative managers need to be intimately involved in the oversight for this process to ensure this aspect of perioperative care is delivered without incident.
Implementing Recommended Practices
Alice S. Comish, RN, BSN, CNOR
Session 2435, 1.5 CH, Track: C +AORN’s recommended practices, all of which directly or indirectly promote patient safety and/or infection control, were developed as guidelines for achieving optimal patient care in the perioperative setting. This presentation reviews the recommended practices process and identifies innovative strategies for implementing them in all settings where operative and other invasive procedures are performed. Management, education, and staff perspectives will be explored.
Operating in a LEAN Environment: It’s Not about RIFS, It’s All about the IDEAL
Valerie E. Otey, RN
Session 2436, 1.5 CH, Track: L/M +
Continual process improvement just won’t go away. Using “Leadership Eliminating waste, Act now, Never-ending” (LEAN) methodology tools will assist you in achieving and sustaining process excellence that is implemented by your staff. This session will explain the LEAN tools, demonstrate their application, and describe improvements that can occur. Just as we use check-off lists to make sure patients are ready for their surgical experience, the use of LEAN tools will provide immediate feedback for processes that need to be corrected. When the tools are used appropriately, your staff will be able to make the corrections as they learn to do things differently.
Patient Positioning 101 — Back to Basics
Robert B. Dybec, RN, MS, CPSN, CNOR
Session 2437, 1.5 CH, Track: C + This session will provide a review for the seasoned perioperative nurse as well as a great educational tool for the new nurse in the OR. All aspects of patient positioning for the perioperative nurse will be discussed including basic positions used in surgery, positioning complications, and liability related to positioning, as well as adult, geriatric, pediatric, and obese patient positioning. The 2008 AORN recommended practices on patient positioning will be reviewed. Sponsored by: Action Products, Inc., Medical Products Group
New Approaches to the Intraoperative Management of HepaticTumors
Angela Davis-Edwards, RN BSN CNOR; Germaine M. Williams, RN BSN CNOR
Session 2438, 1.5 CH, Track: C +
Carcinoma of the liver often occurs as a metastatic process in 80% to 90% of patients. The best outcome for patients suffering from the disease is achieved through surgical excision. Unfortunately, 75% of patients are not surgical candidates. The presentation will discuss the conventional method of surgical excision as well as newer technological advancements in the management of hepatic tumors. The presentation will describe the use of radiofrequency ablation and microwave coagulation to ablate hepatic tumors. Patient outcomes will be discussed as well as new developments that are taking place at our facility in the fight against liver cancer.
IT: The Decision Partner of Surgery
Jon Correia, RN, BSN, BS, MBA, MHA, CNOR
Session 2439, 1.5 CH, Track: I +
Increased focus on cost containment, patient safety, and efficiency is driving surgery departments to change how they operate and requiring nursing leaders to push far beyond their traditional, clinical role. Today’s nursing leadership needs an extensive blend of knowledge that includes clinical practice, materials management, physician relationships, quality monitoring, fiscal responsibility, and more. Information technology is the “survival key” that will help nursing leadership to make decisions that positively affect patient, financial and operational outcomes. This session will help nursing leaders to understand the variable costs that impact surgical services; to identify metrics that will help them measure and improve their processes; and to learn how to utilize information Technology to align the goals of surgical services with the goals of the hospital.
No Margin, No Mission: Evaluating New Services and Products for Profitability
Pamela Hunt, RN, MSN
Session 2440, 1.5 CH, Track: L/M
Creating a margin with a new product or service line has to be part of our mission. Nursing leaders are being asked to play a very active role in evaluating costs verses reimbursement and determining the return on investment. The participant will be able to adequately evaluate any service or product to determine breakeven points and profitability.
An Administrator’s Guide to Dealing with a Business Valuation Consultant
Curtis Bernstein, CPA/ABV, CVA, MBA
Session 2441, 1.5 CH, Track: A
This session will explain why data is requested and how a valuation analyst uses data to value an ambulatory surgery
center (ASC). Uncovering the underlying value of an ASC will be discussed, and the speaker also will describe the preparation needed for the valuation process to achieve the best value for the ASC’s purpose.
Predictable and Efficient Processes = Life Balance
Brandon Bennett, RN, MSN, CNOR, CNA, BC; Marilyn Bash, RN, BSN, MBA
Session 2442, 1.5 CH, Track: P +
Would a smooth-running, highly effi cient OR make any difference in your work-life balance? Could it help you satisfy
your professional and personal goals? Hear how one medical center transformed its OR from a reactive operation into one that consistently uses predictable and effi cient processes. Hear their stories of interlocking accountability, backup systems, and supporting technology. Through a comprehensive change effort, Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wa now achieves maximum, sustainable results in performance and satisfaction. Come and hear how to transform your team into a top performer with results that will satisfy your professional goals and personal life.
8:30 - 10 am
Managers’ Exhibit Floor Hours
Get the special industry attention you deserve and find out more about the latest solutions for the OR.
10 am - 3 pm
Exhibit Floor Opens
Managers' Program - Morning
10 – 11:30 am
Critical Success Factors — Improving Patient Safety in My OR
Anthony Dawson, RN, MSN
Session 2443, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MO +
In this session you will learn how to differentiate your hospital with an effective quality and safety program in the perioperative setting. Apply the National Patient Safety Goals to your OR and learn from past mistakes. Make data work for you and get the tools and templates you need for effective analysis of the quality and safety measures at your facility. Error-proof your organization against future events.
Something to Talk About: Creating Healthy Work Environments Through Communication!
Pamela Hunt, RN, MSN
Session 2444, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MWF +
Excellent communication skills are essential in health care. Communication promotes a smooth-functioning team,
collaboration with physicians and other healthcare departments and allows us to deal with families that are in crisis. But why can’t we get along? This presentation will explore common personality types that are diffi cult to work with and how we should respond to promote teamwork and goal achievement. Also included is how to coach people into accepting confrontation without destroying the relationship.
Student & Faculty Program
9 am – 3 pm
AORN is pleased to offer this special program to Faculty and Student Nurses. Come and join us for this unique one-day Student & Faculty Program designed just for you.
10:30 am – 12 pm
Forming Partnerships to Educate Nursing Students (Faculty, Part 1)
Kathleen B. Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR, CNE, ANEF
Nancy Langston, PhD, RN, FAAN
Jane C. Rothrock, DNSc, RN, CNOR, FAAN
Patricia C. Seifert, RN, MSN, CRNFA, FAAN
Session 2445, 1.5 CH, Track: P +
The first part of the program will include discussion about the opportunities and challenges in using perioperative patient care settings for clinical rotations and a review of innovative educational strategies for assessing critical thinking, skill mastery, and knowledge acquisition.
1:30 – 3 pm
Forming Partnerships to Educate Nursing Students (Faculty, Part 2)
Joy Don Baker, PhD, RN-BC, CNE, CNOR, NEA-BC
Debra L. Fawcett, PhD, RN
Linda M. Sigsby, RN, MSN, CNOR
Session 2446, 1.5 CH, Track: P +
The second part of the program will include a description of the necessary steps in assessing your perioperative environment and its readiness to incorporate students and identification of strategies for approaching a nursing program to offer your perioperative setting as a clinical site.
Managers' Program - Afternoon
1:30 – 3 pm
Perioperative Services: Supply Cost Management
Margaret Camp, RN, MSN
Session 2447, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MO
In the current environment, perioperative directors and managers are challenged on a daily basis to control and manage supply costs. Faced with the realities of decreasing reimbursement and a continual flow of expensive new supplies and equipment, directors and managers struggle to find solutions to manage their supply expenses. This session will offer creative and innovative strategies to assist in managing and controlling supply expenses.
Coaching & Retaining Your Talent
Bruce C. Lee
Session 2448, 1.5 CH, Track: L/MWF +
This session will discuss how to turn good employees into great employees by high achievement created through high
expectations, trust, and being challenged to grow potential through insight and encouragement. A recent study found that
only 50% of employees are satisfi ed with their work at the end of the week. Understand what the dissatisfi ers are and how to turn them around. Learn methods to consistently get the best project performance and work behavior from your employees.
3:30 - 4:45 pm
Perioperative QuizBowl: Evidence-Based Practice
Renae Battié, RN, MSN, CNOR; Kathleen Gaberson, PhD, RN, CNOR; Peter Graves, RN, BSN, CNOR; Cecil King, RN, MS, CNOR, CNS; Judith Pins, RN, BSN, MBA
Session 2449, 1.2 CH, Track: P +
This unparalleled, action-packed session will have a game-show atmosphere with content unique to perioperative nursing. This General Session engages the audience and enhances everyone’s knowledge base.
5 - 6 pm
Future of Nursing
Tim Porter-O’Grady, DM, EdD, ScD(h), FAAN
Session 2450