<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!--RSS generated by Windows SharePoint Services V3 RSS Generator on 2/5/2012 5:46:09 AM--><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="/Blogs/136400/_layouts/RssXslt.aspx?List=4b32f8c3-5ffb-4aa9-9141-d50ff995998a" version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Thoughts on Perioperative Education</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400</link><description>RSS feed for the Posts list.</description><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:46:09 GMT</lastBuildDate><generator>SharePoint SusQtech:Blog</generator><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>Thoughts on Perioperative Education</title><url>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/_layouts/images/homepage.gif</url><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400</link></image><item><title>Surgical Specimen Accounting</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2011/01/21/SurgicalSpecimenAccounting.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2011/01/21/SurgicalSpecimenAccounting.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Surgical Specimen Accounting Are lost or mishandled specimens really a problem?Even though the loss or mishandling of a surgical specimen is rare, it does happen and for the patient that it happens to, it is 100%. A lost or mishandled surgical specimen is not the outcome that your patient, the surge ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 22:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Patient Safety resource</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/12/13/PatientSafetyresource.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/12/13/PatientSafetyresource.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[I have recently discovered the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority web site. It has a lot of safety information related to the OR. They have a quarterly advisory that you can request to receive via email. The past issues are also packed with topics like Preventing Retained Foreign objects, Prevent ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 17:50:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Self Breast Exams</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/08/08/SelfBreastExams.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/08/08/SelfBreastExams.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[

I got a surprise last week when my MD told me I had a lump in my breast. Apparently, even though I called myself doing self exams (although not regularly) I was not doing it correctly, because I had no idea it was there before he pointed it out. Needless to say I did get a mammogram and ultrasou ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 08 Aug 2010 08:07:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Pre-Procedural Verification </title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/06/06/Pre-ProceduralVerification.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/06/06/Pre-ProceduralVerification.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[We recently re-examined our Pre-procedural Verification process and realized there was room for improvement. We have since implemented several changes related to making sure that ALL procedures with possible laterality/level/digit/location have this information included at the time the procedure is  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jun 2010 11:39:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Just Culture and Patient Safety</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/03/07/Whenthingsgowrong-EducateorDisciplinaryaction.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/03/07/Whenthingsgowrong-EducateorDisciplinaryaction.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[What to do when there is a occurrence with a patient injury or near miss is always a debate. In order to have a Culture of Safety, you need to have a Just Culture. If  you haven't checked out the AORN's Just Culture tool kit then here is the link. If the link doesn't work, copy and paste in address  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 11:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Wound Class education</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/28/WoundClasseducation.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/28/WoundClasseducation.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As I stated previously, our goal is to achieve a ZERO SSI rate. As we continued to examine our SSI reports even more closely, we realized that our nurses were not always assigning the wound class correctly. In order for the SSI reports to give us accurate information, we need the wound class to be c ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 28 Feb 2010 11:35:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Tracking Surgical Site Infections</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/22/TrackingSurgicalSiteInfections.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/22/TrackingSurgicalSiteInfections.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[We have a goal of achieving a Zero SSI rate. As we continue to examine our SSI rates and patient info more closely each month we have realized that we really need more information than what our Infection Control Dept can currently provide. We have an electronic surgical documentation system (SIS) an ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2010 19:10:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>No Thing Left Behind</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/06/SurgicalCounts.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/06/SurgicalCounts.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[Have you looked at the recent AORN news email? Follow &quot;Counts a Team approach&quot; link to this web site.http://www.aorn.org/News/February2010News/COUNTSFrom there you can get to the No thing left behind site  http://www.nothingleftbehind.org/   and the public review of the proposed 2010 Recom ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 10:36:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Continuous Joint Commission readiness</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/02/ContinuousTJCreadiness.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/02/02/ContinuousTJCreadiness.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[
Continuous Joint Commission readiness for all of our perioperative areas is a large part of my job as an educator. This is something you can't do alone. You definitely need full leadership support. Our Director,Managers, and educators get together and do weekly Tracers in different areas and do fo ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:33:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>Perianesthesia Education resources</title><link>http://www.ornurselink.org/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/01/14/Educationresources.aspx</link><guid>/Blogs/136400/archive/2010/01/14/Educationresources.aspx</guid><description><![CDATA[As a Perioperative educator, I am continually learning new things. In the past two years, I have been much more involved with our Preop and PACU areas. I am trying to find outside education resources that apply to these areas. I wanted to share the resource below. The netCE site has a variety of CE  ... (More)]]></description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:28:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>
