Takeaways
Gun-related violence is an increasing threat in healthcare settings, including perianesthesia departments and ASCs.
Small hospitals and ACS are not immune to active shooter events.
New requirements from The Joint Commission require planning and preparation for active shooter events.
Elizabeth Dalton, BSN, RN, will never forget the day her facility’s loudspeaker announced that an imminent life-threatening event was occurring. She was working in a cardiac care unit at an urban medical building that housed both medical offices and inpatient units when an armed man came into the facility and shot a surgeon. Unfortunately, the announcement was not specific, so she and the other staff did not realize there was an active shooter in the building. They only knew something horrible had happened.
Takeaways
The term diversity encompasses a wide range of factors, including ethnicity, gender, age, education, culture, and veteran and disability status.
Strategies for hiring a diverse leadership team include acknowledging unconscious biases, reaching out to different groups, and using an objective tool for interviewing.
Leaders can foster a diverse leadership team by promoting open dialogue, taking personal responsibility, and growing new leaders through mentorship and sponsorship.
Brian Dawson, MSN, RN-BC, CNOR, CSSM, says: “Most of my career, I’ve been the only one in a room of others—the only nurse, the only male, or the only Black person. Even today, although I work in an extremely diverse company, when we recently celebrated the work of a board quality committee I was part of, I was the only minority person present.”
The headlines are attention grabbing: hospitals forced to pay millions of dollars after employees were found to have stolen opioids and other controlled substances. After being discovered and investigated by the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), the agents uncovered a number of issues: poor record-keeping, inventory, tracking, and other failures that allowed the thefts to go undetected.
The 2023 OR Manager Conference agenda is now available online! Visit our website to learn all about the sessions and speakers who will be joining us this year in Nashville, TN. The 2023 program features three pre-conference workshops, more than 45 sessions across six breakout tracks, more than 80 expert speakers, and many networking opportunities for attendees.
The OR Manager Conference, host of the ASC Leader Summit, helps new and experienced OR leaders hone their skills by providing operational excellence, financial management, and leadership strategies . The OR Business Management Conference focuses on the business aspects, including how to maximize efficiencies, identify revenue opportunities and increase the profitability of the surgical suite while ensuring superior patient satisfaction. Both conferences provide CE opportunities, networking events and an extensive expo hall.