When surgical units have a higher proportion of nurses with certain certifications, the rate of central line-associated bloodstream infections in surgical patients decreases, according to a study in ...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses is proud to honor perioperative registered nurses throughout the year, but especially during Perioperative Nurse Week. “OR Nurse Week” is now ...

Patients who undergo inpatient surgery experience no difference in death rates, length of hospital stay or costs between admission or discharge, whether their physician anesthesiologist is teamed with ...

Despite the risks associated with surgical smoke, evacuation devices have yet to be implemented in most operating rooms. A survey conducted by Stryker Instruments sought to quantify the level of OR ...

ATLANTA — Some Georgia nurses say the operating rooms they work in every day are making them sick. They say the surgical smoke in the air they breathe in those ORs is full of harmful chemicals and ...