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April 2021 Issue
Special Focus Issue: Staff Safety
This April issue features articles on establishing a just culture in the perioperative environment, ergonomic challenges for perioperative personnel, the effects of flow disruptions on RN circulators, preoperative and intraoperative patient care requirements for patients undergoing laparoscopic-assisted fetoscopic placental laser photocoagulation procedures, enhancing perioperative hand-over communication, and more!
Journal CE Article Titles
- Perioperative Care of Patients Diagnosed With Twin-to-Twin Transfusion Syndrome Undergoing Laparoscopic-Assisted Fetoscopic Placental Laser Photocoagulation
- Safety First: Using the Performance Improvement Process to Enhance Perioperative Hand-Over Communication
- Clinical Issues—April 2021
Featured Content
- Just Culture: The Foundation of Staff Safety in the Perioperative Environment
- Ergonomic Challenges in the Perioperative Setting
- The Effects of Flow Disruptions on RN Circulators
May 2021 Issue
The May 2021 issue features a Back to Basics 2.0 article on specimen management; a Guideline First Look article on the AORN “Guideline for complementary care;” a Guidelines in Practice article on environmental cleaning; and articles on strategies to implement a competency assessment verification program, factors that predict the perioperative culture of safety, and more!
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