November 13, 2023- November 12-18 is Perioperative Nurses Week. The hospital operating room has undergone significant change recently—from more robotic surgeries and technology, to supply chain challenges and a greater focus on infection prevention protocols and metrics during and post-COVID-19. Perioperative nurses have helped to keep hospitals and health systems running during the pandemic and going forward.
Medline is helping many of these operating rooms to identify broad opportunities and strategies—in operations, infection prevention, workflow, supply handling and management, waste and processes. Through the company’s perioperative supply chain optimization service, Medline conducts assessments—71 in 2022, alone—that provide a roadmap for improving patient care, outcomes and efficiencies.
Medline University’s Perioperative Resource Center offers free courses and best practice guidance posters to help busy operating room staff improve efficiencies, promote safety and prevent healthcare-associated infections. Medline also recently introduced nine Patient Safety Microlearning Courses for OR Professionals—short courses providing safety updates on surgical site infections, perioperative hypothermia, perioperative pressure injuries, catheter-associated UTIs and other topics.