Caresyntax

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The challenges for operating room (OR) managers are universal: improving surgical workflow efficiency while providing high-quality, reliable, safe patient care. She began as a regular staff nurse, then quickly progressed from coordinator, manager, educator, and director to service line administrator. “I’m

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walkerproject

JANUARY 20, 2021

The operating room area is confronted with a variety of challenges in everyday life. Originally controlled primarily by the surgeon, the operating room has become a service platform run by many professional groups. Experience shows that the quality of management in a complex business is highly dependent on the individual.

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The Circulating Life

APRIL 18, 2022

To tell you how The Circulating Life began, I have to go back to my first day in the operating room. Although I considered myself an “experienced” nurse, I was not prepared for how different the operating room environment was from the bedside and outpatient areas where I had worked for the past 9 years.

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The Circulating Life

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is the group of scrub techs and nurses that I worked with for the week. I had to find it, or find someone who could help me find it, before I could bring it back to the room. No one in the room knew me, and I desperately wanted to do well and demonstrate that I really was a competent OR nurse. All of us do.

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The Circulating Life

APRIL 6, 2022

He asked me if I had ever considered getting the Certified Surgical Services Manager ( CSSM ) credential. I didn’t even really know what it was, but since it had the word manager in the title, it wasn’t on my list of things to do. So many OR leaders have the CNOR (Certified Perioperative Nurse) credential – which is good!

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The Anesthesia Consultant

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Are we physicians or are we glorified advanced practice nurses?” In the late 1970’s I was a third-year medical student at a prominent Midwestern medical school, where an unspoken rank system existed in the operating room. Read my column on bullying in the operating room. He or she knows how to do the operation.

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MEDITEK

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The operating room is an overwhelming, busy place, especially when the overarching goal is to save lives. 3 As an operating room manager, you know firsthand how challenging it is to run an OR, but throw in some inadequate surgical equipment, and your entire OR can shut down. 1 This is staggering.

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