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On the Cover
It's time to reveal this year's
OR Excellence Award Winners,
the surgical leaders who
excelled in 7 key categories of
surgical success: patient and
employee safety, pain control,
patient satisfaction, financial
management, infection preven-
tion and environmental stew-
ardship. We always enjoy shar-
ing their stories of success in
celebration of the outstanding
clinical and business achieve-
ments occurring in countless
facilities across the country.
Cover design by Ethan Anderson
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8 Ideas That Work
• Problem solving with serial numbers
• Protect staff with designated safe spaces
• Translated documents for
Spanish-speaking patients
18 Staffing
Beating the Block Time Blues
Ann Geier, MS, RN, CNOR, CASC
22 Infection Prevention
Pretreating Instruments at the Point of Use
Amber McGeehan, MBA, MSN, RN, CNOR, CSSM, FACHE
29 Safety
We Don't Need Another Checklist
Todd K. Rosengart, MD, FACS
33 Regulatory Affairs
How Transparent Is Healthcare Transparency?
Mark F. Weiss, JD, and Cecilia Kronawitter
37 Business Advisor
Make Your Preference Cards a Current Affair
Janet Lawrence
123 Thinking of Buying … Video Monitors
Sorting through the wide variety of
OR display options.
Suraj S. Soudagar, MS, MBA, LEED AP
140 Product News
143 Behind Closed Doors
Disorientation
Paula Watkins, RN
Departments
101 Ergonomics in the OR:
Protecting Your Surgeons
Limit your physicians' risk of suffering
career-threatening injuries from the
physical strain of surgery.
Daniel Cook | Executive Editor
108 A Look at the Latest in Ophthalmic Lasers
New treatments and excellent outcomes are
just a few of the reasons to add the technology.
Joe Paone | Senior Associate Editor
114 Can Sealed Sterilization
Containers Lock in Savings?
How to decide if containers
or wrapping is best for your facility.
Lucas Higman, MBA, DSc, FACHE
Features
