OR Manager September 2022 - 1

SEPTEMBER
2022
Volume 38
Number 9
The monthly publication for OR decision makers
IN THIS ISSUE
Salary/Career Survey
Unprofessional behavior
improved with just a cup of
coffee.................................. 12
Is there a nursing
shortage, or a shortage
of solutions? ........................ 14
Closing keynote highlights
value of culture on staff
retention.............................. 18
Easing the pain of electronic
health records: Part 1 ........... 19
Survey: ASC leaders see
staffing challenges with
rising volume ....................... 24
Bundled payments:
A win-win-win approach
for ASCs .............................. 27
At a Glance ......................... 31
IMPORTANT
DATES
Sept 29: Advance rate
deadline for OR Manager
Conference
Oct 1: Salary/Career Survey
results part 2 released
Oct 17: OR Manager
Conference opens in
Denver, CO
BY CYNTHIA SAVER
Survey: Surgical volume returns for many
ORs, but staff shortages remain
he good news from the 2022 OR
Manager Salary/Career Survey
is that in the wake of lessening
disruption from COVID-19 throughout
the country, surgical procedure volume
has returned to many ORs, with nearly
half of respondents (48%) reporting
increased volume over the past year,
double last year's findings (26%).
The good news is overshadowed by
T
OR leaders struggling to find staff to
meet the higher demand for surgery. Although
the number of respondents who
hired more direct care staff during the
Leadership Series
past year more than doubled, from 14%
in 2021 to 32% this year, more than
half report that the percentages of open
full-time equivalent (FTE) positions for
RNs and surgical technologists (STs)
have increased in the past 12 months
(58% and 56%, respectively).
Part of the staffing problem is turnover-more
than half of respondents
reported increased turnover in the past
12 months for both RNs (56%) and
STs (51%). The staffing situation has
led nearly half (47%) of OR leaders to
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BY CINDY KILDGORE
Katie Boston-Leary: Creating your own
brand of leadership
prominent leader in the OR,
Katie Boston-Leary, PhD, MBA,
MHA, RN, NEA-BC, CCTP, became
a nurse in an unexpected way.
With no intention of pursing nursing,
she saw an opportunity and ran with it.
Today, Boston-Leary is an instrumental
voice advocating for the well-being and
safety of nurses in and out of the OR.
She became a board-certified nurse
executive after obtaining a nurse executive
leadership certificate from the
Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania. She mainA
tains
certification as an
OR nurse and has held
multiple positions in OR
leadership. Her most
recent research was
a qualitative study on
nurses' perceptions of
power dynamics in the
hospital setting. She
recently completed her
PhD at Walden University
in Health Services,
Katie BostonLeary,
PhD,
MBA, MHA,
RN, NEA-BC,
CCTP
obtained a dual MBA and MHA from the
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