Description
These sessions are designed for OR leaders who are looking to thrive in the most challenging environment. Hear from a diverse group of peers on success stories and lessons learned in the OR. Sessions focus on developing effective leaders, novel approaches to managing team dynamics, legislative advocacy and solutions to the staffing crisis.
Sessions include:
Activating Tomorrow’s Leaders…Today!
The nurse staffing crisis, competing demands and shrinking hospital margins are putting nurse leaders to the ultimate test. In order to be an effective leader, the stakes are higher than ever. The need to balance optimism in the face of adversity is paramount to confront reality and build a resilient team.
Effective leadership has to look very different to motivate teams today. This presentation will address issues related to racial bias in healthcare, patient care delivery models, sustainability and integrating well-being to effectively lead today.
Learning objectives:
- Learn the key characteristics and traits of effective leadership.
- Verbalize the importance of social corporate responsibility in leading a team.
- Develop leadership tools to navigate today’s challenging environment.
Establishing an Environment of Continuous Improvement
To be competitive in today’s surgical suite, health care systems must establish an environment of continuous improvement for safe patient care and staff satisfaction. To ensure the highest level of quality and safety, it is imperative to develop a framework between hospital leadership and perioperative services.
Hear one case study on how cross-functional teams came together to launch a continuous improvement initiative. Learn how they engaged staff, identified weaknesses in processes, and how they used lean and six sigma tools throughout the process.
Learning objectives:
- Track and report perioperative process improvement initiatives.
- Understand the importance of continuous improvement in healthcare.
- Learn how to replicate the program as desired at other institutions.
Three-Legged Leadership Team to OR Behavior Management
To be competitive in today’s surgical suite, health care systems must establish an environment of continuous improvement for safe patient care and staff satisfaction. To ensure the highest level of quality and safety, it is imperative to develop a framework between hospital leadership and perioperative services.
Hear one case study on how cross-functional teams came together to launch a continuous improvement initiative. Learn how they engaged staff, identified weaknesses in processes, and how they used lean and six sigma tools throughout the process.
Learning objectives:
- Track and report perioperative process improvement initiatives.
- Understand the importance of continuous improvement in healthcare.
- Learn how to replicate the program as desired at other institutions.
A New Look at Staffing
Since the pandemic, hospitals are looking for creative strategies to bridge the staffing gap. Hear from one facility who was particularly struggling to find surgical technologists (ST) to staff the OR. Learn how they created an innovative approach to fill the ST shortage by designing a licensed professional nurse (LPN) scrub internship program to support multiple campuses within the health system. The LPN to ST hire ratio was 7:0, validating the program’s benefit to staffing the OR.
Learning objectives:
- Discover how LPNs can effectively contribute to the OR.
- Learn key components to a successful LPN internship program.
- Develop a strategy to utilize alternative staff resources.
Overcoming Obstacles in OR Throughput, sponsored by: Vizient, Inc.
A patient’s journey through the perioperative process encounters many barriers and bottlenecks. Where do leaders begin to identify these roadblocks, and what is the root cause of the roadblock? Attend this session for a deep dive conversation with Perioperative Services leaders about their journey to identify and overcome throughput barriers, and how you can apply these lessons in your practice.
Learning objectives:
- Define OR throughput.
- Identify the primary and underlying forces driving or impeding OR throughput.
- Understand how to use data to identify throughput trends and areas of opportunity.
Legislative Advocacy: A Mandatory Attribute for Perioperative Nursing Leaders
Nurses must realize the impact of effective advocacy to promote safe and quality healthcare today. Legislative advocacy activities by nursing leaders include understanding the legislative process, building relationships with legislative decision-makers, mastering the art of communication (negotiating, testifying, endorsing), participating in legislative activities, and analyzing the effectiveness of advocacy.
This session will convey the secrets of becoming an advocate in the legislative arena and best practices needed to become an effective advocate. As a core discipline, advocacy is mandatory for all nursing leaders as they enter into the world of policy and politics.
Learning objectives:
- Explore why legislative advocacy is a critical attribute for nursing leaders.
- Develop the advocacy role in perioperative nursing leaders.
- Examine the outcome of effective legislative advocacy.
1-2-3 Response to the Staffing Crisis in Perioperative Services
Creative staffing schedules are an absolute necessity in response to the current perioperative staffing crisis. The initial priority begins with an assessment of staffing resources with consideration for consolidating roles and cross-training departments. Next would be establishing a community training for perioperative nurses, surgical technologists and SPD technicians with nationally approved courses. Finally, promotion of systemness through establishment of a staffing resource pool to encourage flexible scheduling of surgical patients and perioperative staff to improve workflow would be a tertiary plan. Attend this session to get a step-by-step guide to respond to the staffing crisis at any stage.
Learning objectives:
- Discover creative strategies to optimize human resources.
- Develop an innovative workflow strategy to increase efficiency.
- Create systemness to support safe staff transitions.
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