Perioperative nursing education is undergoing a significant evolution, reflecting a global imperative to enhance both academic training and the practical readiness of future nurses. With surgical care ...

The Institute of Medicine’s 2011 most recent report, “The Future of Nursing,” doesn’t mince words. “The ways in which nurses were educated during the 20th century are no longer adequate for dealing ...

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed Perioperative Advanced Practice Nurse Competency Statements. As defined by AORN, the perioperative advanced practice registered ...

Periop 101: A Core Curriculum consists of 25 perioperative nursing education modules, which will enable hospitals to provide consistent education to novice operating room (OR) personnel through visual ...

The Frances Payne Bolton School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland is beginning mandatory perioperative nursing courses for undergraduates, according to a news release. The ...

A recent Anesthesia and Analgesia The Open Mind article eloquently laid out the case for anesthesiologists being especially well suited to leadership roles in health care. The evidence for physician ...

The following are monthly updates from the UAB Department of Anesthesiology and Perioperative Medicine Education Division. The Critical Care Medicine Fellowship received 12 applications and has ...

Bright lights, gleaming surgical tools, and a patient ready on the operating table. All seems to be in order, but then an alarm sounds and all eyes immediately look to you ­– what happens next is in ...

Literacy, in and of itself, is a problematic issue for a surprisingly large proportion of the population of the United States. Nearly a third of the population has only basic (or below) mathematical ...