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2012 - Research

Air Force Nurse Transition Program: Student Quantitative Medical Simulation Performance (4)

Intraoperative Skin Prep: Is There A Difference? A Retrospective Review (3)

Methods for Comparing Perioperative Teaching Strategies (5)

Perioperative Nurses Acquire and Update Knowledge of Diathermy (8)

Pressure Ulcer Prevention: Enhancing the Perioperative Cardio-Thoracic Patient Experience (1)

Promoting Recovery and Enhancing Outcomes Pre and Post Surgery: Effects of Preoperative Oral Carbohydrate Loading on Clinical Outcomes (9)

SBAR-�Improving Hand Off Communication Between the OR ENT Service and the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit: A Pilot Project� (2)

Study of the Nursing Staff's Perception of Patient�s Safety and Nursing Culture (7)

Surgery-Related Characteristics that Influence Surgical Glove Perforation (6)

2012 - Informational

Engaging Management In Local AORN Chapters

Wounded Warrior Project: Soldier Ride, Increasing Awareness

2012 - Evidence Based

A Programmatic Approach To Improve Environmental Hygiene In The OR (24)

EBP Guidelines on Corneal Abrasion Management in the PACU (16)

Home-Laundered Vs. Disposable OR Attire: What Does the Evidence Show? (23)

Hush Initiative: A Noise Reduction Project (21)

Perioperative Pressure Ulcer Prevention (PPUP) Team: A Strategy for Success (26)

Preoperative Vaginal Preparations (PVP): Practice Implications Of Guidelines And Research Studies Review (15)

Surgical Smoke Evacuation In Procedural Areas (22)

2012 - Clinical

A Collaborative Effort To Improve Turn-Around Time in an Academic Setting (143)

A Complete Bone Flap Kit for Compliance (146)

A Pathway To Success: Increasing Employee Engagement (162)

A Single Institution Experience in the Reduction of Immediate Use Steam Sterilization (141)

A Successful Multi-Hospital System Reprocessing Program of Medical Devices (198)

Advanced Practice Provider On-Boarding: A Standardized Orientation Program (161)

Agreement Between Temporal Artery, Oral, and Axillary Temperature Measurements in the Perioperative Period (244)

An Overview of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: The Principles of ECMO for Adults (48)

Applying Health Care Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) to Improve the Safety of Surgical Specimen Collecting and Transporting Process (237)

Avoidable Delays in Presurgical Services: A Revenue Enhancing Project (191)

Back To Basics: Preventing Surgical Site Infections (81)

Bacterial Contamination of Mobile Communication Devices of OR Personnel: A Pilot Study (58)

Blood Management: Ensuring A Safe Environment (117)

Brief/Debrief: How Can You Use The Information Coming Out of the Rooms to Achieve Buy In With the Process (240)

Cardiac Arrest Roles Defined (CARD) (154)

Case View as a Novel Web-Based Resource Information Technology Designed to Expedite Patient Care and Its Transparency to Improve Health Care Quality and Patient Safety for Health Care Organizations (229)

Changing the Thought Process and Decreasing Immediate-Use Sterilization (201)

Check Sample: Ensuring Safe Blood Management (118)

Chlorhexidine Rinse Prior To Intubation: Collaborating To Decrease Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (108)

CNOR Certification: A Magnet Journey in Changing the Culture in the OR (149)

Code Flash: An Interdisciplinary Team�s Efforts to Decrease Incidents of Flash Sterilization (96)

Communication and Teamwork in the OR (216)

Comparison of Factors Impacting Surgical Site Infections (71)

Compassion Fatigue With Wounded Warrior Care (132)

Competence: Getting It Right! (31)

Continuing Beta-Blockers During the Perioperative Period (85)

Creating A Culture of Safety (101)

Customizing New Graduate Education Using Online, Lecture, and Skills Practicums (157)

Developing an Efficient Robotic Program in a Suburban Hospital (120)

Developing and Maintaining Staff�s Competencies With LVADs (86)

Development of a Perioperative Infection Control Plan Based on a Needs Assessment (78)

Effective and Safe Strategies for Electronic Medical Record Implementation (227)

Effectiveness of A Noise Reduction Campaign in the OR (147)

Electronic Specimen Management: Perioperative Services to Pathology (104)

Eliminating Barriers To Closing Counts (129)

Environmental Hazards in the OR (46)

Establishing a Perioperative Nurse Residency Program (160)

Evolution and Best Practices for a Perioperative Nursing Internship (153)

Expansion of a Multi-Specialty Robotic Program (122)

Extraordinary Learning (172)

Fire Drill: Interdisciplinary Teamwork In Action (112)

First Case On-Time Start (57)

Formulating An Educator�s Orientation (165)

Green & Clean: The OR�s Rise to Protecting the Planet (188)

Hand Hygiene: The Struggle to Maintain Quality Per JCAHO (205)

Hand-Off Communication: SBAR in the OR (66)

Have You Completed Your Quarterly Question? (145)

How to Manage Major Construction in an Active OR (192)

ICL (Implantable Collamer Lens): The Latest Treatment for Nearsightedness (70)

Impact of Multidisciplinary High Level Disinfection Team Staff-Assisted Visits (199)

Implementation of a Surgical Safety Checklist to Improve Communication and Patient Safety (126)

Implementing A Surgical Checklist In 58 ORs: Lessons Learned (107)

Improve Effeciency in the OR with Lean Six Sigma Methodology (185)

Improved Efficiency Through A Robotics Instrument Initiative (44)

Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance By Removing Obstructions (90)

Improving Patient Care By Implementing A Regional Anesthesia Program (123)

Improving Preoperative Education In Adult Ambulatory Surgery Patients (236)

Improving Start Times of First Surgical Cases of the Day (196)

Improving Sterile Processing/OR Workflow Through Lean Methodology (247)

In Situ Code Simulation (245)

Increasing Patient Safety With Sponge Count/Detection Technology (134)

Information at Your Fingertips: Pocket Reference for Circulators (170)

Intact Skin: We�re All In (109)

Integrating Value-Based Purchasing Performance Measures into Perioperative Practice (214)

Intentionally Retained Surgical Item: Out of Sight Out of Mind (239)

Interdisciplinary Partnership: Enhancing Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Patient Care (142)

Intralipid Infusion for Reversal of Local Anesthetic Toxicity (138)

Invite, Engage, and Educate: Surgery in a Deployable Medical System (133)

Is Silence Always Golden? (131)

Keeping Some Skin in the Game: Pressure Ulcer Prevention Begins in the OR (124)

Keeping the PACE: Perioperative Advisory Council of Excellence Purpose (119)

Lean Six Sigma Enculturation for Continous Improvement (186)

Lessons Learned: Listening to the Interns (97)

Lessons Learned: OR Nursing Morbidity and Mortality Conferences (235)

LVADS in the PACU: A Change In Process (121)

Malignant Hyperthermia: Be Prepared! (80)

Marking in the Universal Protocol: Enhancing Time-Outs (225)

Medical Mission Trips Through the Eyes of an OR Nurse (135)

Mentoring Our Own: Going Full Circle (164)

Methodologies In Decontamination and Cleaning Assurance (181)

Minimally Invasive Surgery in Pediatric Urology (91)

Mock OR Simulation: Effective Teaching Strategy for OR Orientees (173)

Multicultural Care Considerations In Spain (30)

Naval Medical Center Portsmouth Doing Our Part: Going Green (183)

New York University Langone Medical Center Hospital for Joint Diseases OR Count Task Force (222)

No Time To Waste: Improving On-Time Starts (113)

Nurse's Role In Caring for Pregnant Patients With Aortic Dissections (128)

On-Time Starts in a University Hospital (87)

OR of the Future: Are You Ready? (231)

OR Safety Champion: Building A Culture of Safety (176)

OR Specimen Runners: A Worthwhile Addition (52)

OR Summer Internship for High School Students (171)

OR/Pathology Collaboration: Working Together for Process Improvement (41)

Outside Consultants Can Assist Your OR (193)

Patient Fire Risk Assessment: Reducing the Risk for Fire in the OR (62)

Pediatric Surgical Safety Checklist Attitudes Questionnaire (49)

Periop 100: Introduction to the Perioperative Setting (155)

Perioperative Nursing Grand Rounds: Promoting Excellence In Nursing Practice (45)

Perioperative Sustainability: Taking Reduce, Reuse, Recycle to the Next Level (190)

Postoperative Education: Construction and Validation of an Educational Technology for Patients Undergoing Orthognathic Surgery (125)

Preparation of an OR for Robotic Surgeries (27)

Purposeful Preceptoring (169)

Putting the SPARC Into Value Analysis (38)

Quality and Safety Initiatives: Transitioning Student Nurses and Nurse Residents Into OR Nursing Practice (148)

Radio Frequency Technology Improves Patient Safety By Reducing Incidence of Retained Sponges (218)

Re-Design for the Time: Matching Management With Customer Needs (42)

Reducing Surgical Count Errors with Standardized Communication Boards and Count Sheets (98)

Reduction of Turnover Time in the OR (127)

Relevance of Protein Test Sensibility on Instruments After Cleaning (33)

Renew and Revitalize Education in Perioperative Services Without Additional Resources (174)

Robotic Remote-Presence Readiness Training (179)

Role of the Research Nurse Scientist in the Perioperative Setting (74)

Safe Surgical Delivery Utilizing the Brief Process (68)

Safer Surgery Initiative (226)

SCIP-ing to the Next Level: Surgical Site Infection (SSI) Prevention (92)

Service Standards for Surgical Services (39)

Skills Day: Secrets To Success (166)

Spine Robot Training (238)

Standardization of Surgical Wound Classification for the OR Nurse in a Military Treatment Facility (177)

Steps To A Successful CNOR Certification Program (167)

Surgical Care Improvement Project (95)

Surgical Mission To Ecuador: A Nurse's Perspective (211)

Surviving "Go Live": Implementing an Electronic Medical Record in Perioperative Services (77)

Switch for Safety: A Handover Tool for the OR (79)

Taking Economical and Ecological Responsibility in the OR (40)

Talkin' Trash: Going Green By Cutting Red (187)

Teamstepps at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth (NMCP) (180)

The Analysis of Pressure Ulcers In Surgical Patients: A Medical Center In Taiwan (36)

The Business Case for Complementary Therapy (223)

The Daily Metric Board: A Lean Approach to Performance Improvement (184)

The Effect of Data Standardization Across Perioperative Services and Resulting Performance Improvement: A New Look at Perioperative Dashboards (37)

The Effects of Shortened Block Release On Surgical Volume (60)

The Management of the Loaner Instrumentation In Taiwan (35)

The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) Highlands Sterilization Processes Assuring Quality Care (53)

The Use of a Warm vs. Room Temperature Irrigant Among Pediatric Patients Undergoing Cystoscopy: What is Best Practice? (219)

The Use of Blocks in the Surgical Patient (93)

The Value of Operating Room Experience In Acute Pain Management (217)

Thorocoscopic Sympathotomy for the Treatment of Hyperhidrosis (83)

To Resuscitate Or Not To Resuscitate: That Is the Question (116)

Traffic Patterns in the OR: Issues and Solutions (103)

Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement: Another Option (82)

Transcutaneous Capnography in the Perianesthesia Care Unit (PACU): Immediate Assessment of Respiratory Status Emerging from Anesthesia (110)

Transformation of Immediate Use Steam Sterilization (IUSS): A Process Review (136)

Transforming Nursing Through Advanced Onsite Education (234)

Transoral Robotic Surgery (TORS): A New View To Throat Cancers (203)

Transplant Safety: Organ Tracking and ABO Confirmation (111)

Transposing Vascular Access Care from Hospital to OBS Setting (139)

United States Naval Ship Comfort: Operating Room At Sea (212)

Use of the AORN Staffing Formulas for Budgeting, Productivity, and Position Control (194)

Using a Control Radiographic Image Aids Radiologists to Recognize Retained Surgical Items (54)

Using Context Management Across Electronic Nursing Documentation Systems (208)

Using �Safety Scores� to Improve Compliance with Staff Safety Guidelines (89)

Using the Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice To Promote Quality Care To Guide the Development of An Evidence-Based List of Priorities for Perioperative Nursing Outcomes (224)

Verification Process for Release of Autologous Tissue to Minimize Errors (55)

Waiting With Bated Breath: Care of the Perioperative Patient With Obstructive Sleep Apnea (61)

What's for Dinner� Research!! The Bedside Nurse's Perspective on Research (150)

Who's Taking Care of the Caregivers? (88)

Workflow Automation at New York Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia: Improving the Perioperative Process through Information Technology Systems (43)

2011

A Child's Journey through Surgery (172)

A Culture of Excellence Model: Promoting the Patient & Family (99)

A New Surgical Mask That Protects Against Surgical Smoke (111)

A Newly Designed Foot Supporting Instrument (79)

Abdominal V/S Laparoscopic Robot Assisted Sacrocolpopexy (28)

Addressing Surgical Issues Utilizing a Debriefing Tool (200)

An Interfaith Service: Blessing of the Hands (81)

Analysis of Surgical Site Infection of a Teaching Hospital (145)

Are You Documenting? (151)

Aseptic Technique in Afghanistan (141)

Back to Basics Orientation: Knowledge, Passion, and Pride (33)

Beyond the Pause: Site Safety During Invasive Procedures (101)

Body Jewelry and Surgical Injury (54)

Cardiovascular Surgery Nurse Practitioner (184)

Checklist Briefings and Team Attitudes (14)

CNOR: The Value of Certification for Perioperative Nurses (82)

Collaboration Between Two Texas Medical Center Magnet� Hospitals (153)

Contributing to a Safer Environment (106)

Cost-Effective Patient Safety Initiative Related to Processing of IOL (55)

Decision Support to Reduce Urinary Catheter Insertions (32)

Decreasing Intraoperative Acquired Finger Neuropathies (16)

Developing a Multidisciplinary Perioperative Safety Course (130)

Development of a Hospital Based RNFA Service Line (26)

Development of Cultural Awareness to Improve Communication (198)

Drilling Down on CJD (46)

Effect of Forced-Air Warming on Perioperative Hypothermia (112)

Evaluation of the Shelf-Life of Sterile Instruments (3)

Evidence-Based Practice for Mechanical VTE Prophylaxis (61)

Evidence-Based Practices for Preventing Corneal Abrasions (17)

Excellence Unleashed: Same Day Surgery Initiatives (95)

Expanding Nursing Practice With a New PACU (36)

Experience Life in the OR (160)

Extreme Makeover: A New Look for Daily Operations (197)

Factors Associated with Readiness to Discharge from Recovery (5)

Fitting the Pieces Together (183)

Flexible Scopes: Training To Higher Standards (35)

Formulating an Educator's Orientation (157)

Guiding RNFAs Into Practice: Using Online Curriculum Method (156)

Hand-Off Communication I-PACE (127)

High Fidelity Simulation in Malignant Hyperthermia Management (164)

Holding a Teddy Bear Clinic (168)

How Not To Implement A Case Cart System!! (171)

Human Factor Team Training: Impact on Staff Satisfaction (199)

Hybrid OR: Healing Hearts With Cutting Edge Technology (70)

Immediate Postoperative and Impaired Physical Mobility (109)

Implementing a Robotic Surgery Program: Assessing its Impact on Patient Throughput (210)

Implementing a Surgical Safety Checklist (124)

Implementing a Surgical Safety Checklist in a Rural Hospital (122)

Improvement Begins with "I" (201)

Improving Hand-Offs of Nurses in Surgery and Critical Care (131)

Improving Patient Satisfaction with a Nurse Liaison (209)

Improving Quality of Counting Procedures in the OR (98)

In Retrospect: Robotic Assisted Program at Chambersburg Hospital (142)

Innovative Case Cart System Design: A Sociotechnical Approach (215)