Registered nurses (RNs) play a vital role in the operating room (OR) by providing patient care and supporting the surgeon to make his job easier. They oversee every aspect of a surgical procedure, ...

Struggling to find experienced operating room RNs? One healthcare system started its own pipeline with an OR fellowship program. This article appears in the November/December 2018 edition of ...

Licensed vocational nurses – also called licensed professional nurses, or LPNs, in different parts of the country – have varying scopes of practice, depending on the state where you live. In some ...

Maridel Asuncion never found her niche during nursing school. Her education focused on different units in the hospital and nothing really piqued her interest. Asuncion’s mom, who is an operating room ...

Comfort nursing combined with targeted operating room care improves recovery, reduces pain, and increases satisfaction in colorectal cancer laparoscopic surgery patients. The dual nursing approach ...

The present as well as the future holds exciting opportunities for advanced practice nurses (APNs), not the least of which is participation during surgery as a first assistant. In 1990, when the ...

As you participate in the experiential learning activities in the SIM lab spaces, one distinctive opportunity is to learn to practice in a fully equipped Operating Room (OR). With dedicated and expert ...