Who was Florence Nightingale?
We all remember learning about Florence Nightingale in nursing school. One of my professors in school called her “the mother of nursing.”…
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Climbing the Clinical Ladder
A present and crucial topic for advancing and recognizing our profession is the importance of a clinical ladder for Certified Surgical…
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Charting a New Course: The Journey from Bedside to Business
How did you land that job??” This is the most common question nurses ask me when I introduce myself as an RN who works as a Clinical…
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Overcoming Fear & Embracing the Podium
If you had told me a year ago that I’d be presenting at the AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo, I wouldn’t have believed you. Like so…
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Going Beyond Opioids
We work in the Operating Room. We’ve seen broken bones, ruptured organs, trauma, cancer, and infection. We’ve seen blades slice through…
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Top 10: Trauma Surgery
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…
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It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like… 2024
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…
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Top 10: General Surgery
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…
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Top 10: Organ Procurement & Transplant
Organ procurement and transplant surgeries aren’t common to all hospitals, and some teams may only assist in an organ procurement…
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Top 10: Perioperative Nursing
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…
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