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I am looking to create a system hybrid room coordinator who can help with future room construction and design, ...
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We are reviewing our temp/humidity/ventilation policy. It is in need of revision to reflect current best ...
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Is there any evidence regarding perioperative educator to staff ratio?
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Hi All! I am wondering if anyone can help me. I have seen in other hospital ORs a board displayed in a common area for ...
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Hi All! We recently had a surgeon leave for a different hospital and we now have a large supply of implants we had ...

Can the rep help you or the company that makes them?
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I run a small ASC and would like to attract more surgeons to our facility. Other than simply calling every surgeon's ...
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Nursing Colleagues, I am in search of any recognition, reward, and/or incentive programs you might be using at ...
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Does anyone have an on call program? For example, a staff member that is just a call nurse or staff that rotate call ...

Hi @Marissa Frantz , I won't be much help I'm afraid as unfortunately we don't have enough staff available to have a ...
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can anyone share their practice for calling pre op/holding for patients when a case is done . How to make sure there ...
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What tools do you use to flex staff to increase or decrease staff around standing block times. And how far out do you ...
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Hi everyone, For those who are level 2 trauma centers, we were told the new response time for our call teams is 15 ...

@Meredith Reed
Hi there!
We are a level I trauma center and are also discussing this requirement. We are meeting the ...
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A surgeon presents to the operating room requesting to do minor procedures under local anesthetic in an unused OR ...

We do Local cases semi frequently in our OR suites. We follow the guidelines to have an additional RN ...
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Does anyone have a policy about surgeries scheduled but the patient does not have authorization? We have so many ...

We do not. We have an “understanding” that insurance will approve the day of surgery. We too have the same issues.
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Hello, I am wondering how I can get my ceu certificate for attending the zoom meeting ? I was on the phone but muted ...
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Hello everyone! I was wondering if anyone would be able to share their compensation for nurses who fulfill the ...

@Caitlin Smith
We are a union facility and we pay the Charge Nurse roll an additional $1.25 per hour.