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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.

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.

2020 is the Year of the Nurse as designated by the World Health Organization (WHO) to honor Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. Learn ways to honor and celebrate the nursing profession in this blog post.

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.

Learn how to help prevent infections at an ambulatory surgery center. ASC-specific tips to better plan for an infectious outbreak can be found in this new blog post. Finding out what to do if an infection outbreak happens at your facility will help protect your outpatient surgery team and patients.Test

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.

Innovative operating room education is crucial to keep nurses engaged on important clinical topics. Improving nurse education is imperative to keeping patients safe in the surgical setting. This new blog post discusses innovative surgical education ideas like gamification.

Learn how to network at a surgical conference with these six tips in this new blog post. Knowing the best ways to network will help build your career and better engage with your fellow conference attendees.

Transgendered patient’s surgical experiences can create anxiety for the patient and sometimes for OR nurses. Transgender and gender non-conforming patients may defer surgical care to protect their privacy and avoid facing bias. Learn the steps to help build trust with this patient population in a new blog.

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