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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Spotlight On: Yessenia Salgado, DNP, NE-BC, CNOR
Yessenia Salgado began her journey with an associate degree from the Beth Israel School of Nursing – now the Mount Sinai Phillips School of Nursing.
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How Might New EtO Regulations Affect the Perioperative Environment?
Healthcare facilities rely on sterile medical devices to provide safe patient care. These include everything from endoscopes to surgical scissors and retractors. New regulations released by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last year could have an impact on how these devices are sterilized, which in turn could impact device availability for hospitals and ASCs.
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Spotlight on: Brenda C. Ulmer MN, RN, CNOR, FAORN, Perioperative Nurse Educator
Brenda Ulmer still remembers the exact moment more than 50 years ago when she realized that a career in perioperative nursing might be in her future. Her nursing school program included rotations in the operating room, and while watching a cervical laminectomy at the VA Hospital in Atlanta, her stomach started to growl.
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Sustainable Practices in the OR
When it comes to sustainability, healthcare is lagging behind many other industries. The health care industry accounts for about 10% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. Operating rooms are considered to be the main energy consumers and waste producers within hospitals, using up to six times more energy than the rest of the hospital and generating more than half of a hospital’s waste.
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Spotlight On: Ashley Bartholomew, BSN, RN, CNOR, ONC, OR Circulator, OrthoVirginia, and Director of Nursing, GreenLink Strategies
Ashley Bartholomew’s road to a career in perioperative nursing started out in an unusual place: as a dental technician while serving in the U.S. Air Force at just 18 years of age. While stationed overseas in Japan, she got to scrub in and assist in oral surgeries at the Navy hospital. “This inspired me to want to be an operating room nurse,” she says.
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