Your People and Teams 
As days, weeks and months pass on the job, people management tasks that seem obvious can get lost in the endless shuffle of projects, crises, change and inertia. During an onstage chat at the 2026 OR Business Management Summit, Kali Rehm, MBA, MHA, business operations manager of surgical services OhioHealth’s…
National Nurses United (NNU), which identifies itself as the nation’s largest union of RNs with more than 225,000 members, was scheduled to bring its nationwide Red Alert tour to Alameda (Calif.) Hospital on Saturday. It would be the third stop on the tour, which visits a community hospital on a…
The annual Certified Nurses Day takes place Wednesday, March 19, 2026. It’s a day to celebrate your certified nurses’ knowledge, talent, spirit and commitment to patient safety and excellence in health care. The American Association of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN), which organizes, promotes and provides resources for Certified Nurses Day, encourages…
Everyone knows the time-honored cliché about surgeons who act out as the ego-driven superstars of the OR, and to whom everyone else on the perioperative team defers or even fears. In one periop leader’s experience, that dynamic has changed. “The physician of today is not the physician of 10 years…
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) has released what it calls the first national framework that outlines measurable workplace standards for surgeons. The framework, “Developing Specialty-Specific Workplace Standards for Surgeons,” was published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons (JACS). ACS states that the demands placed on surgeons, including…
The first case of the day is a complex orthopedic procedure. Loaner trays were expected the afternoon before but arrived late in the evening. Sterile processing adjusted priorities to accommodate the load. The industry representative is already in the department at 6:00 a.m., confirming instrumentation and reviewing implant availability with…
If you’re new to the process of developing an ASC, or are looking for a refresher that reframes what really matters when doing so, a lengthy article published recently on the website Money Inc methodically lays out numerous valuable best practices, with an eye on preventing your valuable team members…
What do hospital leaders actually want from staffing firms? A leader and former RN at one of those staffing firms put herself in your shoes and published an article on Staffing Industry Analysis that she believes answers that question. Acknowledging that the relationship between hospital leaders and staffing partners “often feels…
It is no long best practice to deliver education via a traditional lecture with PowerPoint slides or an unimaginative online learning module. “These techniques are boring and not effective,” says Beverly Kirchner, MSN, BSN, RN, CNOR(E), CASC, chief compliance officer for SurgeryDirect, LLC. “Staff just listen or read the information,…
Pinpoint accuracy in surgical technique has advanced beyond what many ever thought possible. Unfortunately, such refinements have been slower to reach the perioperative business front. OR leaders often rely on vague metrics and educated guesses to guide their teams. Ambient artificial intelligence (AI) is changing that. When integrated with data…
