Cutting Out CLABSIs: Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections Section 1: Introduction About This Course Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) affect an estimated 400,000 patients each year in the United States (AHRQ, 2018)....
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Safe Labeling Helps Prevent OR Medication Errors
by Nancymarie Phillips | Jul 9, 2017
By Nancymarie Phillips, PHD, RN, RNFA, CNOR(E) Safe Patient Care Safe and effective patient care is the core of perioperative practice. AORN (The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses), the professional organization of perioperative RNs, published the...
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by OR Today Magazine | Jun 1, 2017
Throughout the world, nurses are called on to work in healthcare settings that are undergoing reform never before imagined.1 Patient needs and care delivery systems are more complex than ever. To give high-quality care, nurses must broaden their practice scope, master...
READ MOREKeep It Clean: Hand Hygiene and Skin Antisepsis
by OR Today Magazine | Nov 28, 2016
In the 1960s and 1970s, nursing students were often taught how to manage contaminated objects with their bare hands. This included cleaning patients who were incontinent and counting bloody sponges. In surgery, the scrub nurse would hand off a sponge forceps from the...
READ MORETeaching Tomorrow’s Nurses: What’s Happening in the Classroom?
by OR Today Magazine | Nov 18, 2016
“The job of the teacher is, as it has always been, to make learning so compelling that people find it more satisfying to learn than to attend to any one of the score of competing possibilities.” – Carol Ann Tomlinson, EdD, professor and chairwoman of educational...
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