Leadership and Management

Supply Coordinator

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I manage surgical services in a small critical access hospital. Our facility has a materials management ...

Alyssa Youngquist Category Leadership and Management 14h

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Hi Alyssa, we have a OR Resource Coordinator position (also does the surgical scheduling). Happy to discuss if you ...

Staffing holiday call

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How does your operating room assign holiday call for Thanksgiving and Chistmas/New Year? Currently we assign two ...

Lisa Woodall Category Leadership and Management 1d

press ganey

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Hello all, looking for ways to not only increase the number of survey responses we get back, but also increase our ...

Shannon Sessoms Category Leadership and Management 6d

CST week!

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I am a manager for our L&D OR at my hospital. Can anyone help me with some good ideas for my CSTs for surgical tech ...

Jodee Helm Category Leadership and Management 11d

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@Jodee Helm A colleague sent me this image. My suggestion is to raise awareness with administration by posting ...

C-Arm and lead lining

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Hello, we recently purchased a c-arm and are working on getting up to state specifications to use it on our small 1 ...

Michele Petersen Category Leadership and Management 14d

Open scheduling in the OR

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I feel like open scheduling would be chaotic. With first come first serve, would offices schedulers stay open ...

Eileen Giordano Category Leadership and Management 17d

All Open OR Scheduling

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Hello everyone, I was asked to reach out to see if anyone has ever implemented a 100% Open OR schedule.. 1st come, 1st ...

Leigh Bartlett Category Leadership and Management 18d

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@Leigh Bartlett I do not but I'm curious to see if anyone responds to you that has an open schedule. Thanks for ...

Succession Planning

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Does anyone have a detailed succession plan for Manager and Director Surgery Services?

Tana Carpenter Category Leadership and Management 19d

Consultant needed

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Our organization is hoping to partner with an expert in OR orientation who may be able to evaluate our orientation ...

Mariana Boyle Category Leadership and Management 28d

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Staffing Model

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I am curious how other critical access hospitals do their staffing. We are currently growing rapidly with adding 3 ...

Courtni McLaughlin Category Leadership and Management 29d

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@Courtni McLaughlin
We are not a critical access hospital but we are a smaller community hospital and growth can be ...

Turnover Times

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Hi AORN, Any standards/guidelines on turnover times for a surgery? Specifically for orthopedic spine cases? ...

Corinne Hajjar Category Leadership and Management Aug '22

ISO: Policies allowing patients to obtain photos ...

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Hello, My name is Angie Johannes, Director of Surgical Services at Winona Health in Winona, MN, and I am interested ...

Angela Johannes Category Leadership and Management Jul '22

Team Leads / Scrub Tech Team Leads

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Hello, wondering if any of you utilize RN / scrub tech team leads and if so do you have a separate job description and ...

Bridget Berns Category Leadership and Management Jul '22

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@Bridget Berns Yes, my current facility has been able to create OR Specialty Coordinator positions for RN's. My ...

Preference Card maintenance

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I'm curious to know how other facilities maintain their preference cards. Our hospital system uses Cerner's ...

Kathryn Kuhn Category Leadership and Management Jul '22

Jul '22

We have four people who edit the preference cards. They are senior techs who look after their specialties ...

RNFA/PA/NP-RNFA Assisting in the OR

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Seeking information related to the following roles RNFA, PA, NP-RNFA, and how they function within the OR. Do any ...

Brenda Kendall Category Leadership and Management Jul '22

Aug '22

@Brenda Kendall
Are all RNFA? or do you allow assisting by an ARNP/FNP/CNM who were trained by their MD ? I have been ...

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