Leader Exchange: A Team Approach to Optimizing Your Operating Room

3 medical professionals in the OR

Enhance Efficiency, Safety, and Performance

Listen in as a multi-disciplinary panel outlines their journey to an optimized OR by identifying alignment opportunities and creating a structural framework to lead them to success. By leveraging collaboration and focusing on infrastructure, staffing, and data utilization, this team shares how they’ve enhanced efficiency, safety, and overall performance across perioperative services.

Key Takeaways

  • Strategic Alignment: How to ensure cohesive teamwork and communication between surgeons, nurses, and anesthesia
  • Analyzing Infrastructure Needs: Addressing the physical and technological requirements of a modern OR
  • Staffing in a 24/7 Environment: Managing personnel to maintain efficiency and quality around the clock.
  • Use of Data for Efficiency Improvements: Leveraging data to streamline processes and reduce delays.
  • Use of Data for Quality Improvements: Utilizing data to enhance patient outcomes and safety.

Meet the Panelists

Michael Meara MD, MBA
Medical Director of Robotic Surgery, Associate Professor of Surgery, Division of General & Gastrointestinal Surgery, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital

Heidi Pieper MHA
Program Director, Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery Program, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital

Shannon Thompson DNP, MS, RN, CNOR, NEA-BC
Senior Director of Surgical Services, The Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital

Moderator: Jake Runion MBA, BSN, RN
Sr. Manager AORN Center for Perioperative Leadership

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