Category Operating Room Nursing

Perioperative Previsit: Enhancing Patient Safety and Surgical Outcomes

“The perioperative period, encompassing the time before, during, and after surgery, is critical in-patient care. The preoperative visit plays a pivotal role in preparing patients for their surgical journey, ensuring optimal safety, and improving surgical outcomes. This article aims to explore the significance of perioperative previsits in enhancing patient safety and surgical outcomes….” …

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The role of the perioperative nurse in ensuring patient safety and comfort

“The perioperative nurse is an essential member of the healthcare team responsible for ensuring patient safety and comfort before, during, and after surgical procedures. Their role is to provide patient-centered care and to work collaboratively with other healthcare professionals to promote positive patient outcomes. In this blog post, we will discuss the critical role of the perioperative nurse in ensuring patient safety and comfort…” …

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The Operating Room Environment

The operating room (OR) is a sterile, organized environment. As a health care provider, you may be required to enter the OR during a surgical procedure or to set up

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The Surgical Count; Best Practices

Overview/Procedure Description It is essential for the safety of the patient that a national standard for counting procedures be employed. Accountable items are instruments and other items, which by their

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Operating Room Nurse Interview Questions

Question 1. A Practice Nurse Regularly Performs Certain Routine Procedures. What Are They? Answer : A practice nurse will treat and dress wounds as well as take blood samples, urine

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HOT topics in the OR

In the OR, the stakes are high for perioperative nurses, physicians and others who work as a cohesive team for optimal results. The future holds much of the same —

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Everything I needed to know about leadership, I learned as an operating room nurse

By Helena Hutton As a young operating room nurse, a mentor of mine once asked me a very simple question: why do operating room nurses wear surgical masks? I was

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The inner world of operating room nursing

By Josh Jennings Perioperative nurse Dr Jed Duff says he remembers when he was a nursing student rotating through the operating theatre at Dubbo Base Hospital. One day, he was observing

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5 Things to Know about Surgical Nursing

By Danielle Logacho Love anatomy and physiology? The chance to do innovative things in a highly disciplined environment? Surgical nursing might be the specialty for you. Lori Armbruster, MSN, RN,

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Roles of a Scrub Nurse

By Ellie Williams Scrub nurses, also called perioperative nurses, are registered nurses who assist in surgical procedures by setting up the room before the operation, working with the doctor during

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Difference Between Scrub Nurse & Circulating Nurse

Scrub nurses and circulating nurses are involved with the medical care of patients during operations. The nature of their duties differs, however. Read on to learn more about how these

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