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Sharing Your Stories and AdviceYou’ve Got This!The Stitch

Coping After a Code Blue

By: Lindsey Joyce, MSN, RN, CNOR05/16/2025

Codes are very stressful and emotional situations for everyone involved. Regardless of the outcome, sometimes you must keep going with your day.

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Using Your Surgical Conscience in Perioperative Nursing

By: Sebrena Banecker, BSN, RN, CNOR04/17/2025

During your perioperative career, it is likely that you will encounter many situations that will challenge your surgical conscience.

Sharing Your Stories and AdviceYou’ve Got This!The Stitch

Own It

By: Michael Miller, BSN, RN, CNOR02/17/2025
Lessons LearnedSharing Your Stories and AdviceThe Stitch

What Would I Have Done? Learning From the Mistakes of Others

By: Melanie Perry, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM02/08/2025

As a perioperative nurse, you can mentally put yourself into a situation and think, “What would I have done?”

Sharing Your Stories and AdviceYou’ve Got This!The Stitch

How to Deal With Loss as a New Perioperative Nurse

By: Jill Graham, BSN, RN02/08/2025

Take care of yourself when going through loss: participate in debriefs, talk with a friend or therapist, take a break, and learn what you can to keep growing.

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Happy First Birthday to The Stitch!

By: Rebecca Vortman, DNP, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC12/18/2024

With The Stitch, our hope was that novice nurses would have a supportive community to turn to for advice, tips and tricks, and new learning opportunities to bridge the knowledge-to-practice gap.

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Riding the Waves of Disruption: Navigating the IV Fluid Shortage

By: Melanie Perry, BSN, RN, CNOR12/13/2024

Resources may be strained, but this is a time for resourcefulness and teamwork.

Proud and Discouraging MomentsSharing Your Stories and AdviceThe Stitch

Advocating for a Patient When Their Family Couldn’t

By: Lynette Rothstein, BSN, RN, CNOR11/17/2024

One nurse talks about advocating for a patient on his family's behalf.

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Do Your Homework!

By: Sara Buria, MA, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR, CHES10/17/2024

Homework involves collecting the correct supplies and instruments for a case, knowing the basics of the type of surgery to be performed, and preparing for the “what ifs.”

Finding Your WhySharing Your Stories and AdviceThe Stitch

Answering the What Questions to Get to Your Why

By: Melanie Perry, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM08/15/2024

Take some time to reflect and discover what it is that motivates you. Dig deep and find your purpose. And answer this question for yourself, “Why do I work in the OR?”

Finding Your WhySharing Your Stories and AdviceThe Stitch

Why I Became (and Stayed) a Perioperative Nurse

By: Tracey Kunkel, BSN, RN, CNOR07/25/2024

One nurse shares her journey to becoming a perioperative nurse.

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The Importance of the Fire Risk Assessment

By: Jennifer Conroy, MSN, RN-BSN, CNOR06/27/2024

A fire risk assessment should be done prior to the start of every case, and the fire risk should be discussed with the entire surgical team during the time out.

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Committing to Safety and the Surgical Time Out

By: Rebecca Vortman, DNP, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC06/12/2024

This week, we come together to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the surgical time out.

Proud and Discouraging MomentsSharing Your Stories and AdviceThe Stitch

A Mistake During an Endovascular Aneurysm Repair

By: Margaret Vance, MSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC06/07/2024

Margaret Vance, MSN, RN, CNOR, NPD-BC, shares a story about the time she accidentally disengaged a custom-made graft during an endovascular aneurysm repair.

VideoSharing Your Stories and AdviceYou’ve Got This!The Stitch

A Message of Encouragement: You’re Going to Make Such an Impact

By: Renee Jewell, BSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM05/17/2024

A message of encouragement and support for novice perioperative nurses.

VideoSharing Your Stories and AdviceYou’ve Got This!The Stitch

A Message of Encouragement: Happy Learning

By: Megan Eaton, BSN, CNOR05/02/2024

A message of encouragement and support for novice perioperative nurses.

Finding Your WhySharing Your Stories and AdviceThe Stitch

Using "Why" to Find Your Purpose

By: Sara Buria, MA, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR, CHES03/22/2024

One way to increase the feeling of purpose is to find your ikigai, or your why.

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The Black Angels: Using Our Past to Empower Our Future

By: Jean Abdul-Zahir, MBA, BSN, RN, CNOR, and Emily McKisson, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR02/29/2024

The perseverance and commitment to duty of the Black Angels highlights them as trailblazers that paved the way for African American nurses and leaders.

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The Black Angels: Meeting a Living Legend

By: Monique Jenkins, PhD, MA, FNP-BC, FNYAM02/23/2024

Nurses are familiar with Florence Nightingale, but how many are familiar with the Black nurses who helped cure tuberculosis in New York City in the 1930s?

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