Helping to ease the minds of patients who are undergoing surgery, perioperative nurses play a key role in advocating for patients, ensuring their safety, and anticipating their needs during surgery.

“The operating room is where precision meets purpose, and teamwork transforms skill into healing.” — Michelle Evans DHA, MSN, BSN, RN, BHB Clinical Resource Nurse, Perioperative Services Illuminating ...

Nurses' list of complaints includes lack of sanitized OR equipment; hospital counters that new state-of-the-art sterilizers have reduced safety events by 51%. Operating room (OR) and post-anesthesia ...

Behavioral and cultural factors: If teams anticipate inefficiency or delays because that’s the norm, then they stop attempting to optimize the schedule. Surgeons do not add cases, schedulers leave ...

McChord, Wash. -- On February 26, 2026, soldiers from the 62nd Medical Brigade have successfully operated surgical suites at ...

Perioperative registered nurses are working hard to protect you — our patients — when you are most vulnerable. We provide specialized nursing care to surgical patients before, during and after surgery ...

Ochsner Health is joining a training program that aims to increase operating room nurses in the Gulf South and beyond. The Louisiana-based health system is joining Chamberlain University, the largest ...

If you or someone you love has had a surgical procedure, a perioperative registered nurse was responsible for you or your loved one’s well-being throughout the operation. Perioperative registered ...

(Miamisburg, OH) – The environmental risks from contaminated air in operating rooms are well documented. Nurses represent twice the incidence of respiratory problems as compared to the general ...