OR Leadership Essentials: Making the Business Case for Safety

AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership presents OR Leadership Essentials as a comprehensive course for leaders to hone their skills in the financial and operational elements of perioperative leadership. 

Leaders empowered with the skills to thoroughly assess project and investment financials are better equipped to advocate and stand behind patient and staff safety initiatives. See how you can master key calculations to help defend these important goals.

Making the Business Case for Safety

Fine-tune your knowledge of return-on-investment calculations and timelines while gaining tools to articulate how your projects translate into enhanced patient safety. 

  • Learn how to assess revenue and expense projections for a new product or service.
  • Demonstrate how to perform a break-even analysis and calculate a return-on-investment timeline.
  • Contrast the difference between tangible and intangible costs of errors and the impact of each.   
  • Choose quality metrics which may be impacted by a process change.
  • Articulate how providing quality care and creating cost avoidance can be demonstrated in a business case for quality and patient safety.

With the full OR Leadership Essentials on-demand course, you'll gain insightful applications from renowned nursing finance expert, Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN, the keynote speaker for this program, while building your confidence in these critical leadership skills. Plus, you'll earn 8.0 contact hours of continuing education credit. 

Registration Information

Expand your skills in calculating return on investment and other key areas of perioperative leadership when you enroll in OR Leadership Essentials: Finance & Operations On-Demand.

$180 for Leader Members | $225 for Members | $300 for Non-Members

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Meet the Instructor

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. 

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