Author: Leslie Mattson How many different interpretations of NPO have we heard from our patients? Some of my favorites are: “I was hungry so […]
The adventures of running a Surgery Center
It takes a certain kind of person to manage a surgery center. We have to be smart. We have to be great at multi-tasking, […]
Safety Data Sheets….who is keeping up the book, what needs to be included, and what happened to the “M”??
We have always called it the MSDS book. It typically lives somewhere in the facility where all can reference it, right? Did you know […]
The festering task list…
Doesn’t it feel like some days, it’s all about checking off the task list? That some things just get moved to the new list […]
Difficult Surgeons? Oh My.
Have you ever had an OR staffer come to you and say… I can’t work with (him/her)! I have. And, in all honesty, I […]
The Big Rocks
We all start our day with the well intended “task list”. Then …we get into the day and find ourselves quite busy. This busy […]