Your People and Teams A special article titled “Advancing Perioperative Medicine: A Multistakeholder Perspective” published in the Online First edition of Anesthesiology, the peer-reviewed medical journal of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), states that “anesthesiology is uniquely positioned to influence the continued development of perioperative medicine.” In a press release about the article, ASA…
Harvard Business Review last week published a fascinating article that discusses why perioperative team design is often a more decisive factor in surgical success than advanced technology is. The article was written by Antonio García Romero, assistant professor of healthcare innovation academic director of the Disrupting Healthcare with Generative AI program,…
While we love all nurses, perioperative nurses obviously are at the core of the Periop Leader Network community. So we wanted to share all of the resources that the Association for periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is offering to help you and your pre-op, intraop and post-op nurses and nurse leaders…
I have spent over a decade turning around underperforming organizations. Different industries, different leadership cultures, different balance sheets. The presenting problem is always different, but the root cause lands in the same place more than 80 percent of the time: people. Specifically, the absence of any real infrastructure to develop…
Despite all of the polarization and upheaval in our country, our five million-plus nurses remained admired like no other profession by Americans. In fact, nursing has been named the most trusted profession in the country for 24 years and counting in Gallup’s annual Most Honest and Ethical Professions Poll. Surgery,…
Despite your and your staff’s best intentions, do your facility’s hallways become clogged with equipment and other materials? Are your storage areas overflowing and spilling out into these important corridors? Is it a recurring situation where action is taken to clear the hallways and then, over the course of the…
In an article titled “‘Uber for nurses’: gig-work apps lobby to deregulate healthcare,” the Guardian writes that “billion-dollar tech platforms are aggressively pushing for deregulation of the ‘Uber for nursing’ industry in an effort to expand gig work in the healthcare sector.” The story focuses on a report from the…
Today’s perioperative teams are more diverse than ever, and that diversity can lead to team-damaging conflicts, misunderstandings, resentments and prejudices. As a perioperative leader, how can you overcome those interpersonal issues to build strong, harmonious, respectful, productive teams that truly focus and collaborate to provide consistently superior and efficient patient…
U.S. News & World Report has interviewed American Nurses Association President Jennifer Mensik Kennedy PhD, MBA, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN. The interview provides a solid overview of the issues that are currently impacting the nursing profession. Those issues include proposed changes to the U.S. Department of Education’s “professional degree” definitions that include…
A feature in The Bulletin, the monthly member magazine of the American College of Surgeons, suggests that general surgeons should be prepared to step in to perform pediatric surgeries when pediatric surgeons are unavailable. “In an ideal surgical landscape, a specialty-trained pediatric surgeon would be available to address the needs…
