DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As advocates for patient safety in the operating room, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, (AORN), announced support for Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s ...

A new law in Pennsylvania will require ASCs and hospitals to have a circulating nurse in the OR during procedures using general anesthesia or deep sedation. The “Circulating Nurse Act,” which passed ...

“Fun” isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think about surgery, but that’s how Pam Sale describes her role as a perioperative nurse. A nurse since 1976, Sale has spent all but three years ...

The following article is written by Stephen Lober, MD, director of research and development, and Sean Berry, MPA, RN, CNO, clinical director, for OP-marks. The surgical time out is now a standard ...

For specialist nurses on neurocritical care units, accompanying patients for imaging scans and other procedures has a major impact on nurse staffing ratios, reports a study in the Journal of ...

August 1, 2018 - For specialist nurses on neurocritical care units, accompanying patients for imaging scans and other procedures has a major impact on nurse staffing ratios, reports a study in the ...