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The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has issued new and updated Guidelines for Perioperative Practice in 2025 that all perioperative personnel should be aware of. These guidelines are the gold standard in evidence-based recommendations to deliver safe perioperative patient care and achieve workplace safety.
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Research conducted by YouGov on behalf of Siemens Healthineers¹ reveals Americans’ devotion to football fandom could put their heart health at risk. According to the survey, roughly 1 in 5 Americans (21%) would hesitate to leave a professional sporting event to go to the hospital if they suspected they were having a heart attack.
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Elaine Geroski is the assistant vice president of patient services and chief nursing officer at West Virginia University Medicine Grant Memorial Hospital, a critical access hospital in Petersburg, W.V.
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As spring begins, familiar phrases such as “April showers bring May flowers,” “Don’t forget to smell the roses,” and “Breathe big” remind us of an often-overlooked aspect of patient care – complementary and holistic care. Nursing plays a crucial role in implementing evidence-based practices to enhance the health and well-being of individuals (ANA, 2025).
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For more than 25 years, articles about patient safety have referenced the 1999 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System. This report’s main conclusion was that most medical errors were not the result of individual recklessness. Instead, faulty systems, conditions, and/or processes lead people to make, or fail to prevent, mistakes.
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That’s according to Dr. William Rutala, director of the Statewide Program for Infection Control and Epidemiology and professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina. At the 2025 edition of the KILMER conference, Rutala took a wide-lens view of his field. Drawing on his decades of experience and more than 700 scientific publications, he discussed new sterilization technologies, surface disinfection, endoscope sterilization, ethylene oxide, and more.
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For over 20 years, OR Today has provided perioperative and SPD professionals with up-to-date news and information about their profession. The magazine aims to educate readers about new guidelines, techniques, and equipment, as well as practical information for career building, problem-solving and overall well-being.
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