CURRENT ISSUE: August 2022
🌐 DIGITAL EDITION
The Future of Outpatient Total Knees
Promising research and early use of high-tech devices provide a glimpse into what could soon become the norm in same-day joint replacements.
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Trend to Watch: Improve Patient Engagement With Communication Apps
Phone and web platforms, once considered impersonal, are now appreciated for providing intimate care.
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SPECIAL EDITION: July - OR Excellence 2022 Preview
🌐 DIGITAL EDITION
Learn to Become a Transformative Leader
Second Keynote Speaker Dr. Shari Prentiss, a cancer survivor who has become an in-demand certified speaking professional, will describe how to inspire your team while feeling personally fulfilled doing so.
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Tap Into the Potential of Total Joints
Drs. Lee Rubin and Jinlei Li will lead a hands-on pre-conference workshop on how to develop a standardized, evidence-based outpatient joints program designed for both clinical and financial success.
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READY FOR SURGERY
Optimizing Patients for Optimal Total Joint Outcomes
A multidisciplinary effort that focuses on patient education, effective pain control and safe care is vital.
OR EXCELLENCE
From Disney to the OR
Opening keynote speaker Dennis Snow, a skilled teacher of customer service, employee development and leadership, will apply lessons learned from his long executive career at Disney that can help you enhance the patient experience.
FEATURED PHOTO
TIME FOR A COLORING BREAK
A Tampa-area ASC run by the Florida Medical Clinic is providing its staff mental rests during busy days of sur¬gery through two large coloring posters. One features a sloth hanging from a branch, the other a floral mandala design. They hang in the break room, where staff color them a little at a time. Studies show that art ther¬apy, and coloring particularly, can reduce anxiety, help to bring people into the present moment and improve motor skill function and focus.
BREAKROOM
Megan Muñoz
The nursing student and cover star of our August issue discusses how a new program that placed her in a real-life OR convinced her that a career in surgery was right for her.
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HUMAN RESOURCES
How to Conduct Workplace Investigations
Be thorough, professional and impartial… and make sure everything is well-documented.
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