What We Do . . .

Our strong network, current knowledge of the perioperative market, and proven success in national search will allow your facility to access qualified OR Management candidates who are not available through typical advertising.

With over 18 years’ experience in the retained, and interim nursing management search industry, our expertise enables us to successfully fill vacant perioperative management positions with proven leaders, in the most efficient and effective way possible.

Services provided include:

• Going Green in the OR
• Perioperative Consultation
  Let our well known experts of AORN Recommended Practices and Standards assist you in the following areas:
  
  • JCAHO Preparation for Perioperative Services and Central Sterile Processing
  • System Efficiency and Productivity Improvement
  • Infection Control Issues
    
• Interim Perioperative Management
  
• Full-Time Perioperative Management
  
• National Speaker/Presenter

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Making “Prints”

By Kim Richards, RN

 

“I’d like to make footprints in the sands of time before I check out, but you can’t make footprints in the sands of time if you’re sitting on your butt…unless your intent is to make buttprints in the sands of time. ” (Bob Moawad, Chicken Soup for the Soul , page215)

Inertia. Complacency. Ambivalence. As nurse leaders, we cannot afford to “settle in” to these ehaviors for long. However, as days turn into months, where does the energy, inspiration and ability to “get stuff done” come from? Are you leaving footprints or buttprints (as in “dragging your butt”) in the sands of time?

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Perioperative Leadership Colleagues

By Jennifer Misajet

Senior Administrative Director, Perioperative Services

Exempla Saint Joseph Hospital

Denver, CO

Look through any print or on-line nursing publication and you will see classified ads promising flexible hours, self scheduling even benefited positions with part time hours. For example, at Northeast Health System, a Thompson Top 100 designee, flexibility is articulated in the mission which states, “At Northeast Hospitals, we believe that families and friendships are important. We believe there is life after work. We also believe in learning something new everyday. We believe in family and friendships…we understand that maintaining a healthy balance between your career and your family is a priority. We offer different types of work schedules to fit your needs: per diem, part-time and full-time.”

Flexible schedules and self scheduling were priorities identified by Jane Cradle, RN, MSM manager of cardiovascular services at Mercy General Hospital in Sacramento, Ca in an article for Nurses Week (2005). “We do everything within reason to make sure our nurses obtain the schedule they desire.”

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