OR Manager of the Year shows leadership in smart policy
Mary Anne Douglas, MS, RN, CNOR, the 2021 OR Manager of the Year, has a daily routine: she spends about 15 to 20 minutes every morning catching up on pandemic- and healthcare-related news that might help her stay dynamic and innovative in her field. Evidence of her inspired work is…
How might telehealth alter approaches to surgical patient care?
Telehealth services grew exponentially in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic. Overall telehealth utilization for office visits and outpatient care was 78 times higher in April 2020 than in February 2020, according to a McKinsey & Company July 2021 report. Since then, telehealth utilization has stabilized at levels that…
Act now to address predicted gaps in anesthesiology coverage
Perioperative services leaders have their hands full with a range of pressing issues, from the return of elective case cancellations to new struggles with staff turnover. However, an even bigger problem is flying under the radar for many hospitals—impending changes in the market for anesthesiology services. Several factors are coming…
Survey: Most ASC leaders plan to stay the course after pandemic
Consistency is the word that comes to mind when reviewing results from the 2021 OR Manager Salary/Career Survey. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, leaders in ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) reported that salary, satisfaction, and the number of employees supervised were comparable to metrics reported in 2020. The good news is that…
Survey: COVID-19 pandemic takes toll on staffing
Responses to the 2021 OR Manager Salary/Career Survey indicate that OR leaders continue to face significant challenges as a result of COVID-19. The survey results come at a time when the buffeting waves of the pandemic are receding for some leaders, leaving them on the shoreline of a post-pandemic world.…
Educate to mitigate workplace violence in healthcare--Part 2
Protecting healthcare staff from physical and verbal abuse has always been a part of nurse leaders’ responsibilities, but the increase in workplace violence (WPV) since the start of COVID-19 has made that even more challenging than in the past. In the first article of this two-part series, OR Manager looked…
Editorial
The need for registered nurses nationwide is expected to grow 7% by 2029 to 3.3 million workers, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, which projects 175,900 openings for new nurses each year. Filling those openings is an increasing challenge for perioperative nurse leaders. The annual OR Manager Salary/Career…
Retaining nurses in a post-pandemic era--Part 1
The ramifications of the COVID-19 pandemic run deep in the nursing profession. As one respondent to the 2021 OR Manager Salary/Career Survey noted: “[The pandemic has] caused healthcare workers to rethink the reason they went into this profession. Also the fact that we could die doing our jobs.” Part of…
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- CDC shifts COVID-19 vaccination to individual decision-making, separates chickenpox shot for toddlers
- 31,000 Kaiser nurses, healthcare workers prepare for historic strike
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- Cuts to NIOSH, OSHA threaten decades of worker-safety progress
- No BLS report: Government shutdown stalls key jobs report amid signs of labor market weakness
- AI-powered video models show promise for nursing skills assessment
- Surgeons rethink aggressive care as xylazine wounds mimic necrotizing fasciitis but rarely require urgent radical excision
- New NIH-backed trial targets advance care planning for older surgical patients
- Study: Surgical preference cards reduce anxiety, boost competence in nursing students
- US launches tariff investigations into medical supplies and devices, raising stakes for healthcare supply chain
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