My Turn: Blessed to Let Go Together; My patient and I leave our grief over losing a loved one on PACU Bay 6

Ideas That Work: Location, Location, Location; Hang Your Hand Sanitizer Dispensers With Care

7 Tips for a Successful 4K Conversion; Inside our $2 million upgrade to ultra-high definition imaging.

Ideas That Work: Monthly Assignments; Put Staff in Charge of Their Own Schedule

Staffing:Develop Your Own Homegrown OR Talent; Fewer temps and travel nurses give us greater staffing stability

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How to Answer Patients' Hernia Mesh Questions; Amongst fear and fabrication, be the voice of reason.

Yes, You Can Perform Opioid-Sparing Surgery; How to go easy on the prescription painkillers - yet still control your patients' pain.

Anesthesia Alert: In or Out of Love With Your Anesthesia Group? Before you switch providers, consider the true cost of divorce

New Ideas for Preventing Endophthalmitis; Intracameral antibiotics, proven to lower the rate of infection substantially, are catching on.

Comprehensive Pressure Injury Prevention;Use this risk assessment tool to protect patients' skin from pre-op to PACU.

5 Steps to Smoke-Free Surgery; Your staff will breathe a collective sigh of relief when you clear the OR air of harmful contaminants.

3 Sharp Ideas to Improve Sharps Safety; Here's how we responded to a worrisome uptick in needlesticks and cuts.

Keep Fluid Off the Floor; A look at automated collection and disposal options that will keep your staff safe.

Left-Behind Needle Proves Fatal; Lessons learned from the tragedy a final count might have prevented.

Advances in Medication Management; Technology can increase drug security and safety.

On Point: Have You Established a Culture of Safety? Talk is cheap when it comes to protecting patients and staff from harm.

What's in Your MH Cart? Answer these 10 questions to find out if you're ready to respond to a malignant hyperthermia crisis.

How Much Do You Know About Patient Warming? A recent survey suggests some nurses are still stumped on the basics of preventing perioperative hypothermia.

Celebrating 10 Years Of the Surgical Safety Checklist; Q&A with Thomas Weiser, MD, checklist co-creator and champion of safer patient care.