EDUCATION
Reducing SSIs: A team approach
Deborah Spratt, RN, Director Perioperative Services, St. James Mercy Hospital Surgical site infections (SSIs) are the most common nosocomial infections among surgical patients. Despite improvements in infection prevention, SSIs remain a significant cause of morbidity...
A Window into Washington: Where are we now and where are we going with health policy?
Ken Perez, Vice President of Healthcare Policy, Omnicell This presentation will cover the most salient health policy developments during the first year and a half of the Trump administration and forecast policy changes for the next few years. Ken Perez serves as...
Training and Retaining Staff for Surgical Services: How personality types decrease turnover
Zee Barreras, BSN, RN, CNOR, Surgical Services Clinical Educator, Tucson Medical CenterSurgical services are a specialty field of nursing that is not generally taught in the average nursing program. AORN suggests that it takes roughly one year to adequately train...
Preparing Your SPD for a Survey!
Chuck Hughes, Medical Device Reprocessing Consultant, Highpower Validation & Testing Laboratories Inc.This program provides attendees with critical information regarding current best practices for reprocessing reusable medical devices. National standards are...
Sterile Processing Best Practices: They begin in the operating room
Kimberly Smith, RN, MS, CNOR, CSPDMThe purpose of this presentation is to describe the interrelated roles of operating room and sterile processing personnel in delivering appropriately cleaned and sterilized instrumentation to patients. The discussion will include...
CSI – Smoke: Is the OR the scene of a crime?
Brenda C. Ulmer, RN, MN, CNOR, Perioperative Nurse Educator and Vangie Dennis, MSN(c), RN, CNOR, CMLSO, Executive Director of Surgical Services, WellStar Health SystemWhat is a Crime Scene Investigation (CSI)? Because of the popularity of television shows such as CSI,...
What Would Florence Do?
Dawn Whiteside, MSN-Ed, RN-BC, CNOR, RFNA, Director of Education, Competency & Credentialing Institute“The Florence Prescription,” written by Joe Tye and Dick Schwabb, discusses how Florence Nightingale would handle today’s health care crisis related to low staff...
Nurses Who Changed the World
Brenda C. Ulmer, RN, MN, CNOR, Perioperative Nurse EducatorThe nursing profession has a long and distinguished history forged by courageous people, primarily women. Prior to the middle 1800s, most nurses were untrained and came from the lower classes of society....
Orienting a New Generation: Success from the start
Karen Rowan, MSN, RN, CNOR, System Nurse Educator, Northwell HealthAccording to AORN, the average age of an OR nurse is 53, with 68 percent planning to retire by 2022. There are four generations of nurses working together. With a lack of OR education in undergraduate...
Establishing a High School Sterile Processing Clinical Program
Elizabeth “Betsy” Vane, RN, MS, CNOR, CHL, CRCST, Health Science Teacher, Health Careers High School, and Deborah Austin, RN, BSN, MA Health Department, Coordinator, Health Careers High SchoolA challenge for today’s surgical team is maintaining...
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