OR Leadership Essentials: Finance & Operations 2025
October 2025
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Take the Master Series in OR Finances
AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership and national productivity expert Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN have teamed up for an insightful leadership series to help you fine tune your understanding of financial and operational concepts vital to your success in your role.
This program is a four-part series, tailored for busy leaders in ambulatory and inpatient perioperative services. Each 2-hour virtual live session will give opportunity for attendees to learn didactically, while engaging with peers in the chat discussions. Upon completion, you will be eligible for 12.0 contact hours and a Certificate of Mastery.
Sessions at a Glance:
Principles of Perioperative Staffing
Tuesday, October 14, 2025 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Participate in an in-depth analysis of staffing in the perioperative areas, learn how to calculate staffing need, and gain strategies around how to respond to your current workforce challenges.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify at least three opportunities to effectively respond to current workforce challenges
- Demonstrate how to calculate FTE need, including staffing mix and benefit time.
- Analyze the impact that non-productive time creates in your department.
- Apply effective scheduling practices
Improving Perioperative Productivity
Tuesday, October 21, 2025 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Take a close look at productivity calculations within perioperative services, possible reasons for not meeting targets, and how to handle variations in performance metrics.
Learning Objectives:
- Calculate the productivity percentile of a perioperative department.
- Articulate at least three reasons for a department having a nonproductive statistic
- Modify processes to remove waste from current workflow
- Prioritize employee engagement as a strategy to improve financial performance
Revenue & Expense Budgeting
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Refine your understanding of organizational measurements for financial success and how you impact them in your leadership role. You’ll gain tactics for successful management of capital and operational budgets in perioperative services.
Learning Objectives:
- Explain the measurements used to describe the financial health of an organization.
- Identify the components needed to create a capital purchase justification and where to find the information
- Analyze causes for variation in budgeted verses actual spending
- Develop actions to take to keep spending within budget predictions
Making the Business Case for Safety
Tuesday, November 4, 2025 | 1:00pm – 3:00pm ET
Fine-tune your knowledge of return-on-investment calculations and timelines while gaining tools to articulate how your projects translate into enhanced patient safety. This session
Learning Objectives:
- Evaluate projects by effectively assessing project revenue and expenses and calculating a ROI or VOI timeline.
- Contrast the difference between tangible (hard) and intangible (soft) costs of errors and the impact of each.
- Choose quality metrics which may be impacted by a process change.
- Demonstrate how providing quality care and creating cost avoidance can be demonstrated in a business case for quality and patient safety.
Join Pam for a Time of Q & A
New this year is the added opportunity for “Coffee Hours with Pam” – each Thursday following your session, you will have designated time of back and forth, question-answering with your expert presenter.
| Date | Time |
|---|---|
| Thursday, October 16, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET |
| Thursday, October 23, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET |
| Thursday, October 30, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET |
| Thursday, November 6, 2025 | 1:00pm – 2:00pm ET |
Meet the Speaker
Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC-FAAN
National Nurse Executive, Author, and Community Leader
Pam is nationally known as a nurse executive, author, financial, quality, safety and strategic expert, and community leader. She has delivered over 500 nursing and healthcare leadership presentations and published on subjects regarding workforce development, strategic planning, connecting to the purpose of our profession, and most notable healthcare finance. Her pioneering work in improving the financial acumen of nursing has enabled thousands of nurse leaders to develop and defend successful proposals and ROI to ensure quality patient care.
