Developing Your Skills

Get quick tips for performing a small bowel resection, which involves removing diseased portions of the small intestine through an abdominal incision and reconnecting the remaining tissue.

Acting on your inner voice will positively affect your patient and your longevity in perioperative nursing.

This handy pocket guide describes the four classifications of surgical wounds to identify patients at risk of surgical site infection.

Learn about and view the various instruments used during thoracic surgery.

Learn about and view the various instruments used during cardiothoracic surgery.

This handy pocket guide can help ensure you don’t miss a step when starting each case.

Get a quick tips for performing an abdominal skin prep.

This short infographic walks you through the steps to take to prepare the OR before the patient arrives, from finding the preference card to completing initial counts.

Get quick tips for performing a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Perioperative nurse = multitasking ninja. When four people call your name and there are 10 essential things to do all at once, it can certainly be overwhelming. It is essential to have a strategy for being organized.

Point-of-use instrument care is performed to decrease the number of microorganisms on the surface of instruments, prevent the formation of biofilm, decrease the risk of surgical site infection, support the efficiency of decontamination processes, and maintain instruments in good working condition.