OR Manager July 2022 - 1

JULY
2022
Volume 38
Number 7
The monthly publication for OR decision makers
IN THIS ISSUE
Leadership Series
Sessions on recruitment,
retention at OR Manager
Conference ..........................14
Engaging student nurses to
prime the OR nurse pump:
Part 2 ..................................16
Succession planning
post-COVID: Identifying the
right people .........................20
Contrast media shortage
reveals cracks in
supply chain ........................22
Hospitals can still be better
prepared for natural
disasters .............................24
Business conference placed
staffing challenges in sharp
focus ...................................28
At a Glance ..........................31
IMPORTANT
DATES
July 28 OR Manager Conference
early bird deadline
Aug 19 OR Manager Conference
award nomination
deadline
Oct 17 OR Manager Conference
opens in Denver, CO
BY AMY BETHEL
Brigid Gillespie: Advancing OR nursing
with evidence-based practice
S
he is the person who says,
" Show me the evidence, " says
Brigid Gillespie, PhD, BHlth Sc
(Hons), RN, a conjoint professor of
Patient Safety in Nursing at the Gold
Coast University Hospital and Griffith
School of Nursing and Midwifery in
Queensland, Australia. Gillespie spoke
to OR Manager about the role of evidence-based
practice in the OR. She
has an extensive clinical background in
OR nursing and has worked across the
Patient Safety
private and public sectors
for many years before
entering the tertiary
sector.
Gillespie has expertise
in quantitative
and qualitative methodologies,
clinical trials,
systematic reviews,
and knowledge translation.
She focuses on
Brigid
Gillespie,
PhD, BHlth Sc
(Hons), RN
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BY JUDITH M. MATHIAS
The Munro Scale: Journey from conception
to validity and reliability
fter a journey of more than 20
years, validity and reliability studies
for the Munro Pressure Injury
Risk Assessment Scale for Perioperative
Patients (Munro Scale) show that
the Munro Scale works.
A
The Munro Scale, created by Cassendra
A. Munro, PhD, MSN, RN, RNFA,
CNOR, is the first standard tool that
identifies perioperative patients at risk
for pressure injury development.
Munro, who is a principle perioperative
nurse consultant and nurse scientist
at Munro Consulting, Santa Monica,
California, is also the AORN liaison and
chair of the Collaborating Organization
Council for the National Pressure Injury
Advisory Panel and
is on the AORN research
committee. She recently
joined Stanford Health
Care, Office of Research,
Patient Care Services, as
a nurse scientist.
Cassendra A.
Munro, PhD,
MSN, RN,
RNFA, CNOR
Munro's journey into
pressure injury prevention
began when she
was starting her master's
in nursing program in 2005. She
wrote a paper about patient positioning
and then presented it to the class.
While going through the literature review
during her presentation, she noted
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