Happy National Time Out Day! This day is set aside to recognize the important role that we all play in patient safety by being involved...

We all remember learning about Florence Nightingale in nursing school. One of my professors in school called her “the mother of nursing.”...

A present and crucial topic for advancing and recognizing our profession is the importance of a clinical ladder for Certified Surgical...

"How did you land that job??" This is the most common question nurses ask me when I introduce myself as an RN who works as a Clinical...

If you had told me a year ago that I'd be presenting at the AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo, I wouldn't have believed you. Like so...

We work in the Operating Room. We've seen broken bones, ruptured organs, trauma, cancer, and infection. We've seen blades slice through...

We've covered so many services in our Top 10 series, and we're not through yet! Today, we're going to be talking about Trauma. Working in...

It's hard to believe that 2023 is already coming to an end - where did the time go? It seems that each year passes more quickly than the...

Most of the time, when we start our Operating Room training, we start out in General Surgery. And rightly so, because it is a diverse...

Organ procurement and transplant surgeries aren't common to all hospitals, and some teams may only assist in an organ procurement...

It's Perioperative Nurses Week! So there's no better week than this one to release our Top 10 reasons why Perioperative Nursing is such a...

Deep within the core of every operating room, submerged beneath the tales of triumph and tragedy, intricate precision, and skills...

We've all been there – that distinct, unpleasant smell that permeates the air in the operating room. Surgical smoke, a seemingly harmless...

Last week we celebrated National Surgical Technologist Week, and from the pictures I saw all over social media, I think there were quite...

Pediatric surgery is a specialty that takes care of children from birth to late adolescence. And you don’t have to be working at a...

In our Top 10 series, we've covered several specialties, including Orthopedics, Cardiac, and Vascular. Today, we're going to be talking...

Would you say that social media has revolutionized our lives and professional endeavors? Everyone seems to have strong opinions about...

Do you remember the 1984 movie Karate Kid? In the movie, starring Ralph Macchio as Daniel and Pat Morita as Mr. Miyagi, a teenage boy...

In my last post, I talked about the importance of communication between the Operating Room (OR) and the Sterile Processing Department...

I spent the first part of last week at the HSPA conference in Nashville, TN. (HSPA is the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association,...