Becoming an Operating Room Nurse
Theatre nurses work with patients of all ages and are involved in each phase of a person’s operation. Working life You’ll provide high standards of skilled care and support during…
The Operating Room Environment
The operating room (OR) is a sterile, organized environment. As a health care provider, you may be required to enter the OR during a surgical procedure or to set up…
The benefits and risks of using surgical robots in the operating room
"Surgical robots are an increasingly popular tool in the operating room, designed to help surgeons perform complex procedures with greater precision and control. While surgical robots have many benefits, they…
Life in the operating room
Patient Education
Perioperative Care
Perioperative Documentation
Perioperative Education
Recovery
Postoperative Care and the Post-Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU)
"You may have heard the term “perioperative nursing”—this encompasses the preoperative, intraoperative, and postoperative phases of the patient’s surgical experience. This post will focus on the postoperative phase, which begins…
A typical day for an operating room nurse
'Thirteen years is a long time to stay in any job, particularly a challenging — but fulfilling — one like nursing. For Staff Nurse Jason Mok, his dedication to delivering…
Bullying in the Operating Room environment
Bullying is the act of seeking to harm, intimidate, or coerce another person or people. Bullying is largely about power and about one person or a group wanting to feel…
Preparing for Surgery – Here’s What you Need to know
Facing surgery can be a frightening experience fraught with questions, doubts and uncertainties. However, most surgeries are elective, meaning that you decide if surgery is the best option for you…
Legal Issues
Life in the operating room
Perioperative Documentation
Perioperative Education
Perioperative Nursing
Patient Advocacy
The moment a patient makes a decision to trust their life, health and well-being to another person, that person takes on an advocates responsibility to protect the rights of the…
Smoking and Surgery: What Can Go Wrong
There are a number of complications, risks, and potential infections that can develop as a result of smoking pre- or post-surgery. What exactly can go wrong? Here’s a run-down on…
Common causes of Surgical Errors in the Operating Room
It is often said that there is no such thing as "minor" surgery. Whether you are having your appendix removed, or a quadruple bypass, any surgical procedure is a serious…
Preparing for Surgery: The Operating Room
The operating room can be an intimidating, busy place. It has a lot of unfamiliar technical equipment. The following is a brief list of equipment you may see in the…
Food And Drink In The ER; Fuel For A Hard Job
The job is hard enough without this sort of reprehensible regulation. Furthermore, if it is so wildly dangerous to have food or drink in the ED, why do we allow…
COVID-19 Considerations for Optimum Surgeon Protection Before, During, and After Operation
There are presently increasing amounts of information concerning protecting the health care worker, including in the operation room. This section brings together the latest information, data, and recommendations for personnel…
How to choose a surgeon if in need of surgery
Choosing a surgeon can be tricky. It starts with making sure you really need the surgery, and then finding an experienced specialist you can trust. Morsa Images/Getty Images So your…
A Day in the Life of a Trauma Surgeon
For a split second, the ER is totally silent.All eyes – and there are a lot of them: nurses, doctors, techs, an EMT standing just off to the side –…
Hybrid Operating Room
Life in the operating room
Operating Room Nursing
Operating Theatre
Operating Theatre Preparation
Patient Education
Perioperative Education
Perioperative Nursing
Proper O.R. Attire
The Operating Room Environment
The operating room (OR) is a sterile, organized environment. As a health care provider, you may be required to enter the OR during a surgical procedure or to set up…
Riskiest time for surgery patients is not in the operating room
The deadliest time for many surgery patients isn’t when they’re on the operating table, it’s while they’re recovering in the hospital and after they go home, a new study suggests.…
‘They look for a scapegoat’: a surgeon’s battle to clear his name
It was a winter evening at a hospital just outside London and colorectal surgeon David Sellu’s clinic was busy. But when a fellow doctor, an orthopaedic surgeon, asked him if…
Doctor commits suicide in Mumbai hospital; family alleges ragging by seniors
The doctor was allegedly harassed by seniors for getting admission through scheduled tribe (ST) reservation. “Ten days ago my mother came all the way from Jalgaon to personally submit a…
Operating Room Issues That Are Avoidable
No matter the hospital or practice, operating room issues are bound to arise. In some cases, those issues can become huge detriments to the safety of both patients and surgical…
Surgical smoke generated in Utah operating rooms contains same hazards as cigarette smoke, report says
SALT LAKE CITY — We’ve come a long way in limiting cigarette smoke in public places, but half a million health care workers in the U.S. are still exposed to…
Hybrid Operating Room
Life in the operating room
Perioperative Education
Surgeons
Surgical Technology
The First Virtual Reality App for Live Operating Room Experiences
A virtual reality app developed by GIBLIB will allow medical students to experience an operating room environment. Every surgery is a complex event both for the patient and the team…
Cardiac surgery
Life in the operating room
Lifesaving Surgery
Patient Education
Patient Safety
Perioperative Education
Open Heart Bypass Surgery
Frequently referred to as CABG surgery, or open heart surgery, coronary artery bypass graft surgery is the surgical treatment of choice for blocked arteries surrounding the heart. The heart pumps…
Abdominal Incisions in Gynaecologic Oncological Surgery
Overview The success of a gynaecologic procedure performed through an abdominal incision depends on careful selection of the incision site and proper closure of the wound. The surgeon needs to…
Everything You Need to Know About Surgical Sutures
Overview Sutures are used by your doctor to close wounds to your skin or other tissues. When your doctor sutures a wound, they’ll use a needle attached to a length…
Cape Fear Valley shows off new lab, new operating room
The Cape Fear Valley Board of Trustees tour the new Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement operating room and Simulation Lab.▲ Michael Boose, a hospital trustee and county commissioner, noticed that the…
Everything I needed to know about leadership, I learned as an operating room nurse
By Helena Hutton As a young operating room nurse, a mentor of mine once asked me a very simple question: why do operating room nurses wear surgical masks? I was…
The Humble Technologist
“The Humble Technologist”- The Surgical Tech’s Creed was written to show the world how much more we do than just pass instruments and count sponges. We are the backbone of…
World Anaesthesia Day: The Magical Tale Behind Your Freedom From Pain
By Dr Roshan Radhakrishnan I want to tell you a story. It may seem like a fairy tale, and in many ways, it is. It is a journey that zigzags…
Life in the operating room
Operating Room Nursing
Perioperative Caregiver Attributes
Perioperative Nursing
The inner world of operating room nursing
By Josh Jennings Perioperative nurse Dr Jed Duff says he remembers when he was a nursing student rotating through the operating theatre at Dubbo Base Hospital. One day, he was…