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Making your GI unit more efficient
You know meticulous instrument care and handling can reduce your GI endoscopy repair costs. But did you know that the organization and design of your GI unit can also affect your daily operations as well as your repair costs? Rethinking the layout of your setting is an opportunity to manage…
Is your OR prepared for a natural disaster?
Do your hospital disaster drills include natural disasters? What would you do if you lost electricity, steam, and water because of a flood, storm, or other disaster? Do you know about your hospital's physical plant and how it supports perioperative services? St Luke's Hospital in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, faced these…
Managing ORs in tough economic times
Of all the things that keep health care leaders awake at night, 3 stand out in these tough economic times—money, quality, and manpower. Surgical services leaders who understand these issues and can help their administration address them will be in a strong position to help their organizations survive. Connie Curran,…
Is health care headed for a meltdown?
Stuart H. Altman, PhD The key change American health care must make is new ways of paying for services, says health policy expert Stuart H. Altman, PhD. That is the only way to create an integrated delivery system that will keep health care alive. Altman will deliver a special lecture…
Substance abuse in the OR: Why managers should not ignore it
The first of two articles. Cecil King, RN, MS, CNOR, is a perioperative advanced practice nurse at Sinai Hospital in Baltimore. King is an outgoing, knowledgeable nurse. He’s a mover and shaker in the perioperative world: active in AORN, speaking at national meetings, and writing articles for nursing journals. He’s…
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