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

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....

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...

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

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 work in the Operating Room. We've seen broken bones, ruptured organs, trauma, cancer, and infection. We've seen blades slice through...

We've covered so many services in our Top 10 series, and we're not through yet! Today, we're going to be talking about Trauma. Working in...

It's hard to believe that 2023 is already coming to an end - where did the time go? It seems that each year passes more quickly than the...

Most of the time, when we start our Operating Room training, we start out in General Surgery. And rightly so, because it is a diverse...

Organ procurement and transplant surgeries aren't common to all hospitals, and some teams may only assist in an organ procurement...

It's Perioperative Nurses Week! So there's no better week than this one to release our Top 10 reasons why Perioperative Nursing is such a...

Deep within the core of every operating room, submerged beneath the tales of triumph and tragedy, intricate precision, and skills...

We've all been there – that distinct, unpleasant smell that permeates the air in the operating room. Surgical smoke, a seemingly harmless...

Last week we celebrated National Surgical Technologist Week, and from the pictures I saw all over social media, I think there were quite...

In our Top 10 series, we've covered several specialties, including Orthopedics, Cardiac, and Vascular. Today, we're going to be talking...

In my last post, I talked about the importance of communication between the Operating Room (OR) and the Sterile Processing Department...

I spent the first part of last week at the HSPA conference in Nashville, TN. (HSPA is the Healthcare Sterile Processing Association,...

When Melanie asked if I would write a blog post for Nurse's Week, I was ready to write a completely different post than the one you're...