Experts discuss how Lean principles and tools help teams identify waste and improve processes and how these processes are perfect for application in the perioperative setting.
In July, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released its 2022 proposed payment rule for ASCs and hospital outpatient departments (HOPD).
The demand for surgery continues to increase and we are bringing in large numbers of nurses to the specialty. The work of perioperative nurse preceptors is essential to the future of our profession.
Every sterile processing (SP) professional should strive for greater transparency in their roles within the department and in how they engage with other departments within the health care organization — and other departments should aim for the same.
Growing up on a hog farm in Minnesota, David Walz remembers getting a hands-on education caring for living things early in life. Although it’s not a straight line from there to the human health care field, the execution of such duties “aligns with many of the things we have to do as nurses,” Walz said.