Consistent procedures increase your odds of performing consistent, high-quality work. A Standard Operating Procedure, or SOP, is a document that provides step-by-step instructions on how to perform a ...

1. The Association for periOperative Registered Nurses offers a customizable OR/procedure room checklist, which is free to download. 2. The CDC’s environmental checklist for monitoring terminal ...

There's a good chance you're either using checklists to record and strike through one-off tasks or you're not using them at all. Either way, you're missing out on an enormous boost in productivity and ...

Although an operating room may look clean, studies have shown there’s room for improvement. For example, in an AORN Journal report, researchers found only 25 percent of OR surfaces targeted in a study ...