Leadership and Management

Pay practice

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Does anyone work at a facility that offers specialty pay for nurses working in procedure areas? Beyond a diff for ...

Adonica Dugger Category Leadership and Management 7d

Nurse Navigator.... any one incorporating a nurse to ...

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We have been talking about creating a Nurse Navigator Role for some of our surgical services. These individuals ...

Karen Citrin Category Leadership and Management 7d

Facility financial health/job security

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How is everyone's facility faring financially during this time? US News and World Report published an article ...

Lorraine Widdall Category Leadership and Management 7d

Call scheduling

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Any nurse managers at rural hospitals willing to offer help or guidance on how you coordinate staffing ...

Joni Turner Category Leadership and Management 22d

Monica Moliniare 21d

I varies with getting called in. Before the pandemic we could get called in 1-6 times in a month. We work the day and ...

Staffing/Call Schedule

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Any nurse managers at rural hospitals willing to offer help or guidance on how you coordinate staffing ...

Joni Turner Category Leadership and Management 28d

Risk Assessment for Wet OR Procedures & Medical Gas

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Hello. We are a new surgical center & recently had our AAAHC survey. Two of the things they requested was a risk ...

Crystal Luke Category Leadership and Management Feb '20

Kim Weitzman Apr '20

Hi Crystal,
We use a company (not sure if I should/could name) for the Risk Assessment.
For the Medical Gas I have a ...

COVID 19 -

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Looking for a flowchart that would assist with determining if elective surgeries and which ones should be ...

Gail Pietrzyk Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

Karen Knapp Mar '20

AORN is recommending that you follow CDC and CMS guidelines. It is also your hospitals responsibility to decide. ...

Coronavirus

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I am interested in hearing how you are managing the Coronavirus Pandemic? Cancelling elective cases, ...

Molly May Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

Leigh Bartlett Mar '20

We have canceled non-essential cases. We are reassigning some staff beginning next week but keeping in mind that ...

Voting Matters!

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VOTING MATTERS! While we are all saddened by the cancellation of AORN Expo 2020, the business of the association ...

Karen Knapp Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

On-Call Coverage

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Hello everyone,

Looking for any and all information on the following issue:
Staff member is scheduled to be on call ...

Stella Mondragon Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

Annette Savoy Mar '20

We start with volunteers first. If there are no volunteers our charge nurse goes to our call in list . The person ...

AORN cancellation of 2020 Conference

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It is my personal opinion that more people have died recently from Flu A/ B than the COVID-19. We are all healthcare ...

Connie Allen Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

Ketamine low dose use for pain control in PACU

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We have a new Anesthesia group and they would like to have the PACU nurses give Ketamine low dose for pain control. ...

Jennifer Oaks-Baker Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

RNFA Orientation

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Hello All! I am trying to work on an RNFA orientation checklist. We have not onboard new RNFAs in a few years. Any help ...

Margaret Vance Category Leadership and Management Mar '20

Turnover times

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What are a some practical tips for decreasing turnover time?

Lorraine Widdall Category Leadership and Management Feb '20

Danielle Linder Mar '20

We developed a pre-printed paper that the circulator fills out indicating any needs for the next case. We even had ...

Flexible Staffing

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Does anyone have any flexible staffing practices? This seems to be a hot topic for younger generations and could ...

Amy Brunson Category Leadership and Management Feb '20

Catherine Smith Mar '20

Actually, one is out now while he’s recovering from his surgery. In his place, our boss puts one of us to cover the ...