After multiple failed attempts over a 10-year period, a perioperative team at Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, MO changed their approach that led to successfully implementing their Robotic Transplant Team.

As a neurosurgeon, John Boockvar, MD, knows a lot about the brain, including how to cool it down (literally) to manage stress.

Perioperative Director Nakeisha Archer, DNP, MBA, RN, NE-BC, CNOR, CSSM, wants nurses to know there are ways to get support and shield yourself from the detrimental effects of workplace bullying and incivility that is driving many nurses to leave their jobs.

New evidence brings big changes to the latest AORN Guidelines. Here’s a look at some key updates to review as a team.

Attending AORN Expo helps your teammates engage in the perioperative profession, which leads to improved productivity, stronger team cohesiveness, greater job satisfaction, and overall happier nurses.

“We need to create a culture of well-being to prevent this enormous toll of physical and psychological harm to our healthcare workers,” Rebecca Lessinger says, and it begins with the basics of how our bodies physically react to stress.

Find out the keys to successful total joint procedures from Virtual OR Excellence speaker Adolph V. Lombardi Jr., MD, FACS.

Health & Wellbeing Coach Natalie Johnson shares easy ways to recover from COVID response fatigue and be your best.

Find out how to prepare your team for potential malignant hyperthermia cases that occur outside the OR.

Stress experts Spencer Byrum and Amy Bair, PhD, PMP, BCB talk about how stress increases our cortisol levels and makes us feel chronically fatigued.

Discover these three self-care imperatives to boost your energy and improve patient care from Dr. Jo Lichten.

Sterilization expert Susan Klacik, BS, CRCST, ACE, FCS, AAMIf, provides important sterile processing updates that OR and sterile processing professionals should be navigating as a team.

Dr. David Williams discusses the New Future of Nursing 2020-2030 Report that highlights health inequities.

Pamela S. Hunt, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN shares how to build up your “trust bank” in The Periop Life’s latest post.

Find out how to expand your leadership skills beyond your practice setting to advance your career.

Mental health should be your top self-care goal coming out of the pandemic.

Dr. Valerie Marsh shares her expertise on adjunct technology and focuses on common barriers regarding the technology as well as tips for overcoming them.

David Wyatt, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, CNOR, had the unique experience of leading AORN’s national board in a most unusual year for the association.

Follow three key recruitment and retention strategies that not only help bridge the diversity gap among staff, but also help keep those new hires and existing staff engaged and committed to your organization.

Perioperative nurses have an opportunity to play a multi-faceted role in helping to fix what’s broken in healthcare, through advocacy and education at their facilities and in their communities.