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A team from Southern Ocean Medical Center shares their success story.

Guidelines Editor-in-Chief Erin Kyle gives us her top tools and strategies to implement updates across eight guidelines that AORN just published.

Make sure your practices are current for eight updated guidelines that provide 70 new evidence-based practices for safe surgery in the 2023 edition of Guidelines for Perioperative Practice.

For many, New Year’s is synonymous with resolutions. We asked chapter leaders what tops their lists, and they were eager to share some fresh ideas for bringing together periop colleagues at the local level.

Newly revised Guideline for the Prevention of Pressure Injury recommends assessing skin perfusion by using long-wave infrared thermography. Learn why.

OR leaders set the stage for success when they give preceptors and orienting nurses the tools to become their best.

This year’s Salary Survey results show staff nursing pay and on-call pay went up, however, dissatisfaction with pay, employer and culture is causing one third of surveyed nurses to consider leaving their jobs.

As the response to COVID-19 develops and access to essential resources becomes strained, we know that we will all need to work together on solutions to problems that we have never faced before in our lifetime. Learn how to prepare your team emotionally to work together and remain positive during COVID-19 outbreak in our healthcare systems in this blog post.

As we’ve made efforts to decrease the spread of the COVID-19 virus, healthcare workers’ lifestyles and work lives have changed dramatically. COVID-19 healthcare workers are dealing with inadequate personal protective equipment among many other stressors. Learn ways to navigate the stress of COVID-19 in this blog post.

Growing up, there was a news magazine at the registers of the grocery store called Weekly World News. It ceased publication years ago, but some of you may remember with amusement the eye-catching and unintentionally humorous headlines designed to grab attention and get the customer to add it to their groceries.

As the COVID-19 spreads, learn how perioperative nurses can help battle the pandemic in this new blog post. Changes in surgery schedules, new processes in operating room departments, and low-census cancellation will continue to affect the way surgical teams work moving forward.

As the COVID-19 spreads and operating teams return to elective surgery, learn how perioperative nurses can help battle the fatigue that the coronavirus pandemic brings in this new blog post. How to address COVID-19 operating nurse fatigue is important to surgical team morale and patient safety.

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, nurse burnout, low morale, and fatigue are affecting operating room teams as they return to elective surgery.

The COVID-19 pandemic has inspired many operating room nurses to go above and beyond. This team of surgical nurses has stepped up to help their Veterans Affairs medical center by helping care for coronavirus patients.

Read an OR nurse’s firsthand account of battling COVID-19 as a patient in The Periop Life’s latest blog post.

The COVID-19 pandemic has challenged us in many ways, including our conversation skills.

Learn how this COVID-19 PPE project in one of the nation’s top COVID-19 hotspots made a difference in patient and worker safety during the coronavirus pandemic in this new blog post.

Gail Horvath, senior patient safety analyst and consultant with ECRI, discusses the current state of supply chain management and what we can all focus on moving forward.

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