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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Jacqueline Sergon is reaching new heights – literally!

PANA

Jacqueline Sergon, MSN, BA, CRNP, CCRN, SRNA , has had to overcome immense personal self-doubt, financial challenges, institutional racial micro-aggression, and discrimination to get to where she is today. That’s why the SRNA at the University of Pittsburgh has made it among her personal and professional goals to correct the current narrative of who comes to mind when people think of a CRNA.

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Anaesthesia and the environment

The Anesthesia Blog

We are delighted to announce that our 2024 special supplement will focus on sustainable healthcare and the role of the anaesthetist. This month’s issue shows how important this theme is also in 2023. First, Waspe and Orr review regulatory guidelines for environmental risk assessment of propofol in wastewater. They outline the two phases of an environmental risk assessment for medicinal products and remind us that other drugs such as: erythromycin; clarithromycin; ibuprofen; diclofenac; ethinyles

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Surgical Directions Achieves 45% Growth and Expands Healthcare Solutions for Partners

Surgical Directions

CHICAGO, FEBRUARY 21, 2023 / PR NEWSWIRE / After becoming independent in 2021, Surgical Directions is proud to announce that it achieved 45% growth in top-line financial performance in 2022. Surgical Directions is a healthcare solutions company that measurably improves the surgical and procedural performances of healthcare organizations in the United States.

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Why Adding A Surgical Scheduling Platform to Your Tech Stack is Essential

Surgimate

Surgical practices today are increasingly reliant on technology in order to carry out their daily operations. This is partly due to legislation that requires — among other things — the use of electronic health records (EHRs) and open access through the internet to structured electronic health information. It’s also due to the challenges and complexities of running a surgical practice which requires technology to ease the process and make things more efficient.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: First-generation American one-of-a-kind achiever

PANA

It was Perpetua M. Auguste’s cousin who introduced her to the fact that she can go beyond bedside nursing and specialize. Her choice? Nurse anesthesia. “I chose to pursue a graduate degree in nurse anesthesia because I believed I could do it,” said Auguste, BSN, RN, CCRN , who is on pace to graduate from the , University of Pennsylvania in 2025. “Don’t get me wrong: The thought was scary and overwhelming, and I didn’t exactly know how or when.

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BLACK HISTORY MONTH: Jefferson’s career in health care never in doubt

PANA

For LaJasmine R. Jefferson, BS, BSN, RN, CCRN, SRNA , a career in health care was never in doubt. “Potentially cliché but absolutely genuine, as a young child I knew I was going to be in health care providing care for individuals,” said Jefferson, who is attending the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing Doctorate in Nurse Anesthesia program, with plans to finish in 2024. , “At a very young age, my mother was also struggling with a medical ailment, and being extremely attached to her all