OR Manager - November 2019 - 1

NOVEMBER
2019
Volume 35
Number 11
The monthly publication for OR decision makers
IN THIS ISSUE
Human resources
Soup to nuts recruitment:
Finding and onboarding OR
nurses-Part 3
Special Series: Enhanced
Recovery After Surgery
The role of the OR in ERAS
pathway implementation
18
ECRI Institute Perspectives
Proactive steps paramount
for greater surgical
stapler safety
Technology
Robotic arm-assisted TKA:
A growing and promising
technology
25
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
Are obese patients good
candidates for the
outpatient setting?
30
22
14
OR Manager Conference
Conference kicks leadership skills up
several notches
he Big Easy put on a big program
for the more than 1,400 perioperative
nurse leaders and other
healthcare professionals who flocked to
New Orleans in September for the annual
OR Manager Conference. Both the
conference and PACU Manager Summit
offered provocative new input and
highly entertaining networking events.
The PACU Manager Summit has
more than doubled in attendance since
it began 3 years ago, and the program
T
Human resources
Supportive leaders boost staying power
of nursing staff-Part 1
O
R nurse leaders are struggling
not only to recruit staff, but
to retain them-especially as
younger generations begin to dominate
the work pool. A 2019 study by Dowling
Dols and colleagues found that Millennials
were generally satisfied with their
jobs, yet they anticipated staying with
their current employer for 3.03 years,
compared with 5.83 years for Generation
X and 8.25 for Baby Boomers. In
this two-part series, we explore staff
retention: leadership and culture (Part
1) and career development and engagement
(Part 2).
Seeking satisfaction
Staff satisfaction is the keystone of
retention, but creating satisfaction isn't
easy. For instance, an American Association
of Critical-Care Nurses (AACN)
study of more than 8,000 critical-care
nurses found that only 25% of directcare
nurses were satisfied with their
jobs, and 23% planned to leave their
current positions within the next 12
months (another 35% planned to leave
within 3 years). According to a study
by Buffington and colleagues, nurses
in Magnet-designated hospitals might
leave for reasons such as manageContinued
on page 11
Continued on page 6
encompasses the entire perioperative
continuum. Topics ranged from increasing
patient throughput to easing patient
anxiety, managing malignant hypothermia,
and accommodating electroconvulsive
therapy in the PACU.
Numerous workshops took deep
dives into topics such as the future
of outpatient surgery, the latest Joint
Commission standards, best practices
for sterile processing, financial manageContinued
on page 6
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