February is National Heart Month. As a CVOR nurse, every month is Heart Month for me! Last year, my facility performed approximately 550...

Remember playing telephone as a kid? You’d sit around with your friends, and someone would start whispering a phrase or sentence, but by...

Happy New Year and welcome to Season 14 - an entire season dedicated to asking the question, "why?" In this season, every episode will...

But... why? Why do we have to wait for alcohol-based preps to dry before we drape? This practices ensures patient safety & reduces fire risk

Fun Fact:  I have a "black cloud" when it comes to being on call. I always have. And I don’t just mean that when I’m on call, we’re busy....

This post is cross-posted on The Circulating Life Happy Thanksgiving! We have so much to be thankful for, not just today, but every day...

Happy Perioperative Nurses Week! Come along as Lindsey shares how she became an OR Nurse

The opioid crisis, which began in the mid to late 1990s, resulted from the development of and aggressive pharmaceutical marketing of an...

There’s a hidden place in every hospital, a little-known world within the walls, waiting to be discovered. In some hospitals, it stands...

Picture this: It's Sunday afternoon, and I'm cozied up in front of my big screen, tuned into the NFL Network Red Zone, fully immersed in...

It's Sterile Processing Week! And while I am not a Sterile Processing professional, as an OR nurse I am acutely aware of how essential...

I realize that National Surgical Technologist Week was last week, but honestly, you deserve to be celebrated and appreciated every week!...

National Surgical Technology Week is a time to honor and recognize the vital role that Certified Surgical Technologists (CSTs) play in...

I recently finished a fabulous two-week trek through Scotland and Ireland with a good friend of mine. We had an amazing trip. When it was...

As a surgical technology instructor, being intentional in the lab with students and in the classroom when teaching theory is paramount to...

I missed being in Joplin, MO, the day an EF-5 tornado hit by one day, due to a scheduling mishap.

The wait is finally over! Season 12 begins today and the first episode is already available for download! In this season, cohosts Chris...

Happy National Time Out Day! This day is set aside to recognize the important role that we all play in patient safety by being involved...

We all remember learning about Florence Nightingale in nursing school. One of my professors in school called her “the mother of nursing.”...

A present and crucial topic for advancing and recognizing our profession is the importance of a clinical ladder for Certified Surgical...