Staffing: How we built a positive workplace culture. It takes a total team effort to turn around a toxic environment.

Infection prevention: Help your reprocessors do the right thing. Give your techs the training and the tools they need to bust those bugs.

5 tips for safely handling sleep apnea patients. Most of your obstructive sleep apnea patients don't even know they have it.

Behind closed doors: 4 Signs it's going to be a great day. Sometimes you just know that the road will rise to meet you.

Your best treatment options for GERD. Several possible interventions are available. Here are some factors to consider.

7 tips to prevent medication errors. Ensure the right dose of the right medication reaches the right patient.

Nurse dies while protecting his orthopedic surgeon-wife during Mandalay Bay Massacre. Sonny Melton, RN, one of the 59 reported deaths during the Las Vegas shooting on Sunday night, protected his wife from deadly gunfire.

Dental assistant and former ASC co-worker shot each other up after stealing vial of morphine. An investigation into the woman's overdose has led to charges of burglary, larceny and now manslaughter against friend and former colleague Jessica Hill.

Perfect your patient warming protocols. It takes a total team effort to maintain normothermia in patients from pre-op to the PACU.

What would you do if bullets started to fly? Lenworth M. Jacobs, MD, MPH, FACS, surgeon and proponent of preparing for active shooter events.

Lessons from 3 wrong-site surgeries. Focus on what really happened, not what's supposed to happen.

Hospital: Cerner's software caused $16 million in losses. Agnesian Healthcare claims coding errors in billing software from Cerner forced it to send out bills by hand.

Are your patients at risk of DVT? The vascular surgeon who created the Caprini Score discusses how to protect your patients from life-threatening blood clots.

Two gloves are better than one. Double-gloving can be a hard sell, but there are plenty of reasons to make it mandatory.

Sell surgeons on safety scalpels. Emphasizing the personal and financial costs of sharps injuries will help get safer blades into your ORs.

Make MH drills count. Realistic practice sessions could someday prove to be life-saving exercises.

Let's ban surgical smoke. It's time to protect all surgical professionals from the harmful effects of toxic plumes.

Sterile processing safety check. The unsung heroes of your facility deserve to work without worry.

5 steps to improved c-arm safety. ???Protect your surgical team from intraoperative imaging's hidden harm.

Let's ban surgical smoke. It's time to protect all surgical professionals from the harmful effects of toxic plumes.