Is it ok to cover your back table? The answer is yes, but you have to do it correctly!

Today, it’s nearly impossible to imagine surgery without the skilled and steady hands of surgical technologists in the operating room....

The easiest way to think about prioritization in the operating room is to break everything down into the 3 P's: Patient, People, & Paperwork.

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If you’ve read our blogs or listened to our podcasts, you probably know that cardiac is my specialty. I love everything that comes with...

Burnout is real. It affects thousands of nurses, but it's not inevitable. The key to prevention is awareness.

Hi, I’m Lindsey — and I’m a self-proclaimed surgical nerd. Honestly, I think most of us in the OR are, deep down. But I tend to take it a...

There’s nothing quite like the energy you feel when thousands of perioperative professionals come together in one place. AORN’s 2025 Expo...

In conversations about the nursing profession, it's not uncommon to hear phrases like “nursing is a calling” or “nursing is a passion.” But this language, however laudable it may sound, has far-reaching consequences that have contributed to the systemic undervaluing of nursing as a profession.

Here are 10 tips to help you make the most of AORN Expo 2025 in Boston!

February is National Heart Month. As a CVOR nurse, every month is Heart Month for me! Last year, my facility performed approximately 550...

Remember playing telephone as a kid? You’d sit around with your friends, and someone would start whispering a phrase or sentence, but by...

Happy New Year and welcome to Season 14 - an entire season dedicated to asking the question, "why?" In this season, every episode will...

But... why? Why do we have to wait for alcohol-based preps to dry before we drape? This practices ensures patient safety & reduces fire risk

Fun Fact:  I have a "black cloud" when it comes to being on call. I always have. And I don’t just mean that when I’m on call, we’re busy....

This post is cross-posted on The Circulating Life Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for, not just today, but every day...

Happy Perioperative Nurses Week! Come along as Lindsey shares how she became an OR Nurse

The opioid crisis, which began in the mid to late 1990s, resulted from the development of and aggressive pharmaceutical marketing of an...

There’s a hidden place in every hospital, a little-known world within the walls, waiting to be discovered. In some hospitals, it stands...

Picture this: It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm cozied up in front of my big screen, tuned into the NFL Network Red Zone, fully immersed in...