Join a multi-disciplinary panel as they discuss optimizing the OR through strategic alignment, infrastructure, staffing, and data utilization to enhance efficiency, safety, and performance.

OR staffing is challenging due to fluctuating surgical volumes, siloed decision-making, and manual workflows, but predictive analytics and automation can transform efficiency, cost control, and staff satisfaction. Join a discussion on using real-time data and AI-driven workforce planning to optimize staffing and enhance team satisfaction.

Learn first-hand tips from a panel of perioperative leaders who share how they assess current equipment needs, evaluate new OR technology, and approach a business case that leads to successful adoption of new technology.

Explore how to cultivate a steady stream of new nurses through community-focused programs. Gain insights from leaders who have implemented successfully and learn how to apply their strategies to your own organization.

Through greater awareness of what the hazards are specific to clinical alarms, what the evidence-based guidance is to mitigate these risks, and the roles each healthcare professional plays in improving clinical alarm management, teams can collaborate to develop solutions toward optimizing alarms in practice to achieve patient safety and staff wellbeing.

This continuing education activity will provide an overview of the clinical considerations related to the use of IUSS using rigid containers. It will provide a brief overview of both the clinical and economic impact of surgical site infections today. The current guidelines and professional recommendations that outline the indications for IUSS and the use of rigid containers will be reviewed.

This program reviews best practices for infection prevention, discusses patient risk stratification, and examines the impact of ciNPT in minimizing Surgical Site Complications in an ASC setting.

This program aims to enhance the knowledge, skills and confidence of nurses, ensuring delivery of safe, effective urological care. Important aspects of this care include awareness of current and emerging advances in urological products and care processes that can align with evidence-based care practices to provide patients with the best opportunities for optimized urologic health.

Nurses and infection preventionists are balancing staff and patient safety, prevention of hospital-acquired infections, and the ever-changing regulatory environment. This program focuses on isolation gowns because they are a critical element of PPE, in that they prevent staff and patient exposure to infectious diseases and improve patient outcomes.

Surgical draping incorporates principles of aseptic technique to optimize patient outcomes. Drapes are designed to provide a physical barrier, optimize exposure of the operative site, cover supplies and equipment, and reduce the risk of surgical site infection.

This educational activity is for the healthcare professional who is involved in the care of patients who are at high risk for arthritis and comorbidities, such as obesity and depression. At-risk individuals include women and those of African American and Hispanic descent. This group demonstrates “health disparities”, which are preventable differences in health status.

This program will cover the evolution and history of surgical gloves; glove perforations and sharps injuries; the infection risk for the glove wearer and patient; double gloving and glove changing research; best glove practices; and current guidelines and standards of practice for glove changing.

This course will provide an overview of common healthcare-acquired infections and will offer practical information for appropriately following infection prevention practices that healthcare workers can use to protect themselves and the patients they care for.

This series is designed for healthcare professionals who desire to complement existing ultrasound skills with focused assessment for the patient presenting with venous insufficiency symptomatology.

This education activity will describe the criteria defined by the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) for classifying a drug as hazardous and the types of health risks that healthcare works could experience relate to exposure. How and when an exposure to hazardous drugs can occur and the nursing implications for reducing exposures to hazardous drugs will also be discussed.

The operating room has traditionally been one of the highest revenue generators for healthcare organizations. This continuing education activity will provide the perioperative nurse with information on ways to improve inventory management in the operating room. It will review the challenges and opportunities associated with effective supply management, and provide specific strategies on product standardization, inventory management and reduction, reduction of waste, data analysis, and improved physician preference card management.

This program is specifically designed to enhance the skills of all team members. The focus is on the essential steps of cleaning, disinfecting, and maintaining surgical instruments, particularly clip appliers fundamental in heart surgeries.

The purpose of this continuing education activity is to provide a review of the clinical considerations regarding the appropriate selection and use of facial protection devices in healthcare practice settings. It provides an overview of the health hazards inherent to the general healthcare and perioperative environment, criteria for appropriate selection and use of facial protection devices, and relevant regulations and recommendations for manufacture and use.

In dynamic healthcare facilities, high-touch shared equipment, including keyboards, Workstations on Wheels (WOWs), mobile tablets and smartphones, are contaminated and potential vectors for microbial transmission between users. Given the fast, daily pace in any healthcare environment, it can be challenging to effectively clean and disinfect these objects between uses by multiple team members – and do so without damaging the surfaces.

This program is designed to increase knowledge of the basics of skin health and its impact for people with incontinence. The activity will provide practical knowledge for clinicians on the care of fragile skin as well as including factors that influence skin health, how to maintain a balanced microbiome, what happens when the microbiome becomes unbalanced, and how to treat conditions related to declines in skin health.