Showing papers in "AORN Journal in 2013"

TL;DR: Having one's opinion ignored is the most common bullying act, with 28% of respondents experiencing being ignored, and differences in the experience of bullying can be found between hospitals and among ethnicities.

TL;DR: The appraised evidence suggests the importance of collaboratively prepared implementation strategies and Administrator involvement and relationships with staff members and the presence of a commitment to positive behavior change before lateral violence incidents occur are factors that can lead to successful implementation of lateral violence policies.

TL;DR: Results indicated that hand massage reduces anxiety for patients awaiting ambulatory surgery and outpatient procedures and is an easy procedure for nurses to learn and administer, and it is within the scope of perioperative nursing practice.

TL;DR: An overall reduction of infection was indicated in the group that received a 2% CHG bath before surgery, and there also was a possible reduction in postoperative organ space infection, although the sample numbers were extremely small.

TL;DR: The purpose of this study was to identify the highest priority patient safety issues reported by perioperative RNs, and identified the 10 highest priority safety issues, including wrong site/procedure/patient surgery, retained surgical items, medication errors, failures in instrument reprocessing, pressure injuries, specimen management errors, surgical fires,perioperative hypothermia, burns from energy devices, and difficult intubation/airway emergencies.

TL;DR: In this paper, a surgical N95 particulate filtering facepiece respirator is used to protect the user from both droplet and airborne particles in surgical laser masks, and a fit test is required before using it in the workplace.

TL;DR: The Handbook of Scholarly Writing and Publishing as mentioned in this paper is a handbook of scholarly writing and publishing that can help librarians who consider writing as tangential to their professional lives to engage with scholarly communication.

TL;DR: Given the efficacy of these devices in preventing inadvertent perioperative hypothermia, practitioners should continue to use and clean forced-air warming systems according to the manufacturer's instructions until well-conducted, large-scale trials can further examine the issue.

TL;DR: The simulations help OR staff members identify problems that can happen during real emergencies and help them work as a team to prepare for events that may represent life-threatening situations for patients.

TL;DR: The use of a preoperative assessment tool to identify at-risk patients, collaboration between physical therapy and OR staff members regarding patient positioning, and neurophysiological monitoring can help prevent peripheral nerve injuries.

TL;DR: During the initiation of a new robotic surgery program, a quality improvement team explored different techniques for positioning patients in the lithotomy and steep Trendelenburg position during robot-assisted procedures and compared two positioning devices: an air-inflated positioning device and high-density foam padding.

TL;DR: It was shown that prewarming patients before surgery did not have an effect on patients' postoperative temperatures, and the lack of literature on the subject led to this conclusion.

TL;DR: An overview of how professional nurses should prepare and contribute to critical changes needed in health care reform demonstrates how the role that nurses play in coordinating care will increase.

TL;DR: An MH response plan should be developed to guide a multidisciplinary team during an MH crisis and practiced and refined during periodic simulations of MH episodes, such as MH mock drills.

TL;DR: Strategies to reduce oreliminate distractions for anesthesia professionals during the preoperative administration of nerve blocks and to eliminate distractions for the RN circulator and scrub person during the final counts are developed.

TL;DR: A standardized reporting method enabled health care providers to address communication barriers and to maintain their focus on the patient during critical moments (eg, shift changes), thereby improving patient safety.

TL;DR: For each of the top-rated safety issues that RNs identified, the evidence of risk and contributing factors are discussed and targeted recommendations for further improvement in perioperative safety are made with the goal of mitigating risk and improving patient outcomes.

TL;DR: Several factors will prepare nurses for this new role of partnering to advance health, including advancing their formal education, developing leadership as a core competency, acquiring leadership skills, and being active in new models of leadership.

TL;DR: Two modifiable factors that contribute to increasing the annual caseload are increasing the number of surgeons capable of using the system and having a properly educated perioperative nursing team.

TL;DR: A score of 70% correct on the examination is required for credit and participants receive feedback on incorrect answers.

TL;DR: The results indicated that prewarming devices did not result in reduced proportions of patients who subsequently experienced hypothermia, but indicates that pre warming may contribute to normothermia in the immediate postoperative period.

TL;DR: Most of the outcomes identified in the Perioperative Nursing Data Set were acceptable for use in Finnish perioperative care; however, further validation of the outcome indicators is needed to develop tools to support nurses in their attempts to reach desirable nursing-sensitive outcomes for patients.

TL;DR: Maintaining perioperative normothermia is important to ensure that a patient does not experience inadvertent hypothermia and its consequences, such as increased blood loss, cardiac abnormalities, prolonged recovery, and increased risk for wound infection.

TL;DR: The most important aspect for perioperative team members is to set an example for other team members by following proper hand hygiene practices and reminding each other to perform hand hygiene.

TL;DR: The number of patients seeking bariatric surgery has grown exponentially in recent years because of the proven success of weight-loss surgery, greater public acceptance, and the increasing number of insurers who will pay for these surgeries.

TL;DR: Benefits of a safe approach to an MRI-integrated operative setting included the elimination of an entire surgical experience for patients who underwent additional resection of the tumor during their initial surgical procedure instead of postoperatively or during a subsequent return to the OR.