Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Female nurses who worked in the operating rooms for 15 years or more had an increased risk for developing COPD ...

Three prominent healthcare workers joined forces recently to give our readers an inside look at what it’s like in the operating room — and more importantly, what it takes to get a job in a place where ...

Anyone familiar with medical dramas on television see the pressure-soaked world of perioperative nurses, or operating room nurses, on a weekly basis. “They’re the ones who get yelled at by the doctors ...

Although surgeons need to frequently review medical images and records during surgery, they’re also in the difficult position of not being able to touch non-sterile objects such as keyboards, computer ...

Background:The surgical environment has multiple factors that could affect nurses’ health. The aim was to determine the effects of the working environment of operating room nurses on their health ...

Ochsner Health is joining a training program that aims to increase operating room nurses in the Gulf South and beyond. The Louisiana-based health system is joining Chamberlain University, the largest ...

“I work at Smilow and literally this is my ride,” said Swani Schoberth-Wyckoff, proudly pointing to her Closer to Free Ride jersey. Schoberth-Wyckoff is an operating room nurse at Smilow Cancer ...

COLTON – When you have trouble recruiting employees, sometimes it’s easier to train them yourselves. That’s what Arrowhead Regional Medical Center has decided to do with its operating room nurses.

A group of Iowa nurses wants to change the wording of a current state standard to ensure patient safety. The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses asked Iowa legislators to maintain the rule ...