operating rooms

National productivity expert Pamela Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN is on Periop Talk discussing why leaders should make a business case for quality in the OR.

Learn more about the OR Leadership Mastery course: https://www.aorn.org/events/leader-mastery

To increase nurses’ awareness of what they can to reduce sharps injuries, AORN’s CEO and Executive Director, Linda Groah talks with Mary Ogg and Deb Spratt who contributed to the 2020 Consensus Statement and Call to Action. Ogg is the author of  AORN’s Guideline for Sharps Safety and while she recently retired, she remains a national expert on safe practices in operating rooms. Spratt is a long-time member of AORN and past president of the association. She is Executive Director of Perioperative Services at the University of Rochester’s St. James Hospital.
Moving_The_Sharps_Safety_In_Healthcare_Agenda_Forward_In_The_US.pdf (internationalsafetycenter.org)

A modern hospital operating room often has someone you never see on television: a medical device company representative. The device might be a special saw or probe or other tool for the surgeon to use. It might be an artificial hip or knee—or a mandible or a pacemaker.

The surgeon may be using the device and its toolkit for the first time. The medical device company representative often knows more about the device and its insertion than anyone on the surgical team.

Even in non-Covid times, it’s a plus to have as few people in the OR as possible. And it’s inefficient to fly these company reps around the country to advise an operation that might only take an hour. 

And so, in a handful of ORs, you’ll see something else—one or more cameras, mounted strategically, and a flat-panel screen on a console, connected to a remote console. The medical device rep—or a consulting surgeon—can be a thousand kilometers away, controlling the cameras, looking at an MRI scan, and making notations on their tablet that can be seen on the one in the operating room.

It’s telemedicine for the OR, and it’s the brainchild of our guest today. 

Join our special podcast host, Kerilyn Vox, AORN Sr. Manager, Chapter and State Relations, Linda Groah, AORN Executive Director/CEO, and Lisa Di Blasi Moorehead, EdD, MSN, RN, CENP, CJCP, Associate Nurse Executive, Accreditation and Certificate Operations at The Joint Commission's discuss the plan for resuming survey activity, the impact COVID-19 will have on survey due dates, how the survey process is expected to change, and the emphasis on documentation during future surveys.

Join our special podcast host, Kerilyn Vox, AORN Sr. Manager, Chapter and State Relations, Linda Groah, AORN Executive Director/CEO, and Renae Battie, Vice-President of Nursing as they discuss the Joint Statement: Roadmap for Resuming Elective Surgery after COVID-19 Pandemic developed by the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Anesthesiologists, Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, and American Hospital Association.

Join our special podcast host, Kerilyn Vox, AORN Sr. Manager, Chapter and State Relations, Linda Groah, AORN Executive Director/CEO, Dr. Lisa Spruce, AORN Director of Evidence-Based Perioperative Practice, and our AORN Nursing Practice Team Panelists as they answer timely COVID-19 questions from the Clinical Nurse Consult Line each week.