Standardizing for Scale: Improving Efficiency, Coordination, and Access
About this Course
What do you think of when you hear “standardization? It might sound overwhelming, but when it’s achieved in the perioperative setting, it can improve your facility’s efficiency while expanding patient access and contributing to stronger financial performance. The discussion highlights the critical role perioperative leaders play in keeping collaboration alive across departments through trust, communication, and shared accountability. And you’ll walk away with actionable tactics to promote consistency from preoperative preparation through room turnover, helping care teams reduce variation, streamline workflows, and enhance the patient experience.
Learning Objectives
- Explain how standardization can improve efficiency, expand patient access, and positively impact the hospital's bottom line
- Outline the key practices from pre-op through room turnover that create greater consistency across the care team
- Describe the perioperative leader’s role building partnership, and how trust, communication, and shared accountability drive stronger coordination and outcomes
Meet the Speaker
- Kim Adams, BSN, RN, CNOR
Clinical Robotics RN Coordinator, St. Rose Dominican Hospital, San Martin
Moderator
- Anne Kuebler, MSN, RN, CNOR
Clinical Program Manager, AORN


