Maridel Asuncion never found her niche during nursing school. Her education focused on different units in the hospital and nothing really piqued her interest. Asuncion’s mom, who is an operating room ...

Comfort nursing combined with targeted operating room care improves recovery, reduces pain, and increases satisfaction in colorectal cancer laparoscopic surgery patients. The dual nursing approach ...

Struggling to find experienced operating room RNs? One healthcare system started its own pipeline with an OR fellowship program. This article appears in the November/December 2018 edition of ...

A Sentara nurse helped lobby for legislation in 2024 that required the use of smoke evacuation systems in Virginia operating ...

11 Drexel Accelerated Career Entry (ACE) BSN students recently spent a week in the life of an operating room (OR) nurse, completing a full immersion experience in the Hospital of the University of ...

Operating room nurses are known for staying cool, calm and collected under pressure. The job isn’t for the faint of heart, but it’s right up Kate Beehler’s alley. “I work with Kate in the OR and she ...

WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Kelly K. Spencer put on her gloves, apron and face mask as she prepared to enter the hospital operating room in 2000. This wasn’t your typical take-a-child-to-work day, ...