DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As advocates for patient safety in the operating room, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, (AORN), announced support for Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s ...

Patriot-News reporter Mary Klaus has traveled overseas on a number of medical missions, but this is her first since completing her licensed practical nurse training at HACC. ROMBLON PROVINCE, ...

A new law in Pennsylvania will require ASCs and hospitals to have a circulating nurse in the OR during procedures using general anesthesia or deep sedation. The “Circulating Nurse Act,” which passed ...

The circulating nurse is responsible for all documentation associated with the procedures in the room and also for obtaining any additional instruments required once the procedure has started.While ...

“Fun” isn’t the first word that comes to mind when you think about surgery, but that’s how Pam Sale describes her role as a perioperative nurse. A nurse since 1976, Sale has spent all but three years ...

National Nurses Week was held May 6-12, and the South Carolina Association of Nurse Anesthetists thanks nurses of every stripe for being the front-line providers who care for patients during their ...

Workflow efficiency is of utmost importance in the operating room at UW Medicine’s Valley Medical Center, a 321-bed acute care community hospital and clinic network in the suburbs of Seattle. The ...