Outfitting for the Outpatient Ortho Boom
Between aging Baby Boomers’ growing needs and a strong same-day preference among patients and insurers, the demand for outpatient orthopedic procedures like total knees and...
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By: Paula Watkins
Published: 10/7/2020
There's no question major changes have been made in the OR as a result of COVID-19. Of course, changes come with a lot of complaints. We perioperative nurses would rather work add-on bowel resection cases than alter how we go about our days. But deep down we know this much is true: We should have made changes to some aspects of surgery long before a pandemic forced our gloved hand.
We had become a bit complacent, hadn't we? Come on, don't you think surgery is better than other departments and specialties? That we don't have the same problems because our protocols are pretty close to perfect? But one of the few positives of this pandemic is that it has forced us to rethink our "That's the way we've always done it" and "If it's not broken why fix it?" ?attitudes. Here a few examples:
Even though it's been a tough year in the OR, one full of uncertainty and plenty of change, there's still no place I'd rather be. If you feel the same way, send me the things for which you're grateful, and I'll try to include them in next month's column. OSM
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