Ideas That Work: Power Pups; Pet Therapy Dogs Work the Waiting Room.

Stay in Constant Communication; Automated text messaging keeps patients engaged and satisfied with their care.

Create the Perfect Cataract Surgery Experience; Pampered patients head home smiling and satisfied with the care they received.

Behind Closed Doors: Practical Jokers; Nothing's more fun than pulling a good prank on your co-workers.

Ideas That Work: Quick and Easy Kid-Friendly Touches

Editor's Page; We All Make Mistakes, But Few Talk About Them.

Advances in Image-Guided Sinus Surgery; Enhanced real-time imaging and improved instrumentation tracking let surgeons operate smarter and safer.

Anesthesia Alert: Cataract Surgeons Giving Anesthesia? Insurer says anesthetists aren't needed for most cataract cases.

Building Trust Between Surgical Teams and Robots; Q&A with Joshua Tyler, MD, FACS, FASCRS

Taking Their Last Breath; What if frontline staff demanded smoke-free ORs?

Ideas That Work: 5 Ways to Survive the Fentanyl Shortage

6 Hot Trends in Medication Safety; Add these technologies to protect your patients and staff from drug-related harm.

5 Difference-Making Tools for Total Joints; Investing in these innovations could push your program to the next level.

Disgruntled Central Sterile Employee Shoots and Kills Longtime Nursing Supervisor at Alabama Hospital. Nancy Swift, RN, a 63-year-old nursing manager, was gunned down Wednesday night in her office just outside the the OR at University of Alabama at Birmin

Study Finds Psychosis Drug Amisulpride Reduces Nausea and Vomiting. Small doses of amisulpride, a drug used to manage psychosis, may prevent PONV when given with standard anti-nausea treatment, say researchers.

Ideas That Work: HIPAA; Keep the Schedule Confidential

Things only a surgical nurse would understand and appreciate.

Anesthetists share the ingredients to their multimodal approach to 3 painful surgeries.

Painkillers are often not the answer to post-surgical pain.

By targeting our most vulnerable patients, we dramatically reduced SSIs.