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Product News: June 2022
Nutritional drink manufacturer Boost and sweet treat maker Cinnabon have collaborated to introduce a cinnamon roll flavored supplement. The bakery-inspired drink — which is made of the same high-quality...
June 15, 2022
OSHA estimates 5.6 million healthcare workers and related occupations are at risk of exposure to bloodborne pathogens — including HIV, hepatitis B and hepatitis C...
June 16, 2022
It's not your imagination. More and more procedures continue to move from hospitals to ASCs. A recent whitepaper says that, despite some backtracking from CMS, the trend...
Staffing: Staying Current With Social Media
The first perception that comes to mind when one thinks of social media on the job, especially when it’s a fast-paced, high-stakes surgical environment, is people slacking off by glancing at their phones when they should be...
Ideas That Work: Symbols of Hope and Remembrance
It’s hard to believe that more than two years have passed since healthcare facilities started caring for COVID-19 patients. To remember the triumphs and loss, ChristianaCare’s Center for WorkLife Wellbeing created...
Ideas That Work: Pronoun 'Preferences' Aren’t Really a Thing
The movement for diversity, equity and inclusion in surgery is particularly vital for the wide variety of patients who visit facilities for care. No matter who a patient may be, or what their background is, they should feel accepted,...
Ideas That Work: Let a Gratitude Tree Take Root
David Taylor III, MSN, RN, CNOR, a healthcare executive consultant with the Resolute Advisory Group, worked with staff at the UCSF Memory and Aging Center in San Francisco to design a Gratitude Tree wall mural....
Ideas That Work: A Colorful Way to Celebrate New Arrivals
When Melissa Arnold, MD, was on maternity leave from Saltzer Health’s North Nampa clinic in Idaho, her colleagues wanted to do something special (and different) to welcome her back. “She had a girl, so we dyed...
Planning for Success in Total Shoulders
Demand for outpatient shoulder replacements is increasing as we continue to see improvements in surgical techniques and multimodal pain management strategies that shorten the length of stay for patients....
Ideas That Work: Leave Your Mark on Inventory Management
Does your staff often feel overwhelmed when a big shipment of supplies is dropped off at your facility? All the boxes look the same, making it difficult to determine which shipments have been processed. “In our receiving room,...
At Your Service
You cannot run a successful surgery center if your surgical instruments are dull, damaged or in desperate need of replacement. I work at an extremely busy orthopedic ASC with eight operating rooms that are full...
Keep Your OR Free of Slipping and Tripping Hazards
It’s common to back-burner an issue that you know needs addressing when a repeat occurrence has not happened for a while. But after a handful of slips, trips and falls incidents last year at our busy community hospital,...
High-Tech Help for Optimizing Total Knee Outcomes
Hundreds of thousands of patients undergo total knee replacements in the U.S. every year, with increasing numbers of the procedures performed in outpatient facilities. Thanks to rapid technological advancements...
The Gold Standard of Smoke-Free Surgery
The Gold Standard of Smoke-Free Surgery; When a nurse had an asthma attack following a plume-generating surgery, our perioperative team sprang into action.
Surviving Accreditation Surveys
When Robert Bray, MD, learned that DISC Sports and Spine Center in Newport Beach, Calif., achieved accreditation for the fifth consecutive year, he was already looking forward to the next one. The neurosurgeon...
Implementing Safe and Effective Patient Warming
The sweet spot for an adult’s core body temperature throughout the perioperative experience is 36.5°C to 37.5°C, but maintaining this safe temperature range can be a challenge — and a safety concern, according to...
Keynotes Set for OR Excellence
The speakers lined up for this year’s OR Excellence conference will be sure to entertain and inform when the meeting returns to in-person learning for the first time...
Inspiring Change
It’s possible to make great strides in increasing diversity, equity and inclusion in surgery without the benefit of a national platform, whether it’s returning to the OR after a tragic accident, deciding to take on inequities in patient...
Pause for National Time Out Day
Taking a time out before surgery is enough to ensure the right procedure is performed at the right location and on the right patient. To emphasize the importance of this...
How Are You Managing Post-op Pain?
Outpatient surgeries blossomed when providers figured out that inpatient stays followed by extended bed rest weren’t always necessary, or even good for their patients. Many patients were better off recovering...