DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) has developed a comprehensive surgical checklist to help reduce the number of wrong-site surgeries and other ...

Establishing procedures is as important to reducing hazards as it is to maintaining business operations on all levels. Procedures spell out the standards and conditions to be followed, and ...

Although an operating room may look clean, studies have shown there’s room for improvement. For example, in an AORN Journal report, researchers found only 25 percent of OR surfaces targeted in a study ...

There's a good chance you're either using checklists to record and strike through one-off tasks or you're not using them at all. Either way, you're missing out on an enormous boost in productivity and ...

1. The Association for periOperative Registered Nurses offers a customizable OR/procedure room checklist, which is free to download. 2. The CDC’s environmental checklist for monitoring terminal ...