The Stitch Archive

One nurse describes her years as a new nurse, the bullying she faced, and how she overcame the challenges she experienced to thrive as a perioperative nurse.

Encoding information for long-term storage is a strategy that we can apply to teaching methodologies. It helps improve information recall and subsequently knowledge transfer for our learners.

Ask any perioperative nurse, and they will tell you about a personal experience (or two) with a medical device failure. Therefore, knowing how to prevent and handle medical device errors is critical.

Codes are very stressful and emotional situations for everyone involved. Regardless of the outcome, sometimes you must keep going with your day.

As a new nurse asks for advice about how to bolster patients' trust in them and the team.

This article will provide some tips to help you navigate The Joint Commission onsite visits with ease and confidence.

Many of our habits and techniques in patient care stem from one intent: to prevent harm to our patients. There is one tool that you likely do not utilize to its fullest potential to optimize your patients’ safety. The way in which we use our words significantly impacts our patients’ risks for sentinel events.

Cardiac valve replacement surgery is one option for mitral stenosis, mitral regurgitation, aortic stenosis, or aortic insufficiency/regurgitation.

Family members of patients in perioperative settings should be included during key moments of communication, such as teaching moments (e.g., preoperative discussions) and data collection (e.g., discussing medications and allergies).

This article will help you identify the types of people to surround yourself with as part of building a personal advisory board.