OR Manager - September 2019 - 1

SEPTEMBER
2019
Volume 35
Number 9
The monthly publication for OR decision makers
IN THIS ISSUE
Salary/Career Survey
NEW!
HEINE on reusable
vs disposable
laryngoscopes
See page 17
Staffing and surgical volume vie for
'top challenge' facing OR leaders
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OR Manager Conference
OR Manager of the Year
inspires staff to share
passion for excellence
Human resources
Soup to nuts recruitment:
Finding and onboarding
OR nurses-Part 1
Patient safety
Team training empowers
OR staff to improve
patient safety
Survey finds staffing gap
has widened at ASCs
since 2018
25
Ambulatory Surgery Centers
31
Proactive policies help protect
staff from bloodborne
pathogen exposure
35
21
5
Patient safety
Inspections reveal need to overhaul
bronchoscope reprocessing methods
xtensive research by Cori L. Ofstead,
MSPH, and her colleagues
at Ofstead & Associates (St Paul,
Minnesota) has raised concerns about
insufficient reprocessing of gastrointestinal
endoscopes and ureteroscopes-
even when recommended practices are
followed-and their new study makes
a compelling case for more stringent
reprocessing of bronchoscopes as well.
In their study of bronchoscope reprocessing
at three large hospitals (two lung
transplant centers and one center providing
pretransplant and posttransplant
care only), Ofstead and her team found
insufficiencies in reprocessing similar to
E
what they previously found with gastrointestinal
endoscopes and ureteroscopes.
Cori L.
Ofstead,
MSPH
When the three hospitals'
administrators,
physicians, and OR directors
asked how
much it would cost to
shift to sterilization of
bronchoscopes or single
use, the researchers
didn't know.
Ofstead told OR
Manager they decided if they were
recommending sterilizing or single-use
bronchoscopes,
they needed to find
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taffing headaches for OR managers
continue, according to the
2019 annual OR Manager Salary/
Career Survey, with more than a third of
respondents reporting that the percentage
of open positions compared with 12
months ago has increased for both RNs
and surgical technologists (STs).
The clock has to be turned back to
2014 to find better news, when the percentages
of those reporting an increase
was 11% for RNs and 12% for STs.
That same year, nearly two-thirds said
turnover rate for both RNs and STs had
stayed the same. In 2019, only about
half of respondents say turnover has
been stable, and more than a third say
RN turnover has increased.
In addition to staffing challenges,
many OR leaders (40%) have to contend
with increases in surgical volume,
compared with 47% last year, although
42% reported no change in volume, up
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