ASC Accreditation, Licensure & Medicare Certification

The Minnesota Hospital Association offers a free, downloadable poster to help prevent patient falls.

Sandy Berreth, administrator of Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center, in Baxter, Minn., and an AAAHC surveyor, provided Becker's Operating Room Clinical Quality & Infection Control with a patient flow worksheet template for use in ambulatory surgery centers.

Safesurg.org, a website designed to support individuals and institutions interested in improving the safety of surgical practices, provides three free videos on the use of the World Health Organization's surgical safety checklist.

The Ohio Patient Safety Institute offers a free, downloadable brochure encouraging patients to become involved in their surgical procedure and care.

Voluntary turnover trends indicate that turnover for nurses with less than three years of experience is reaching double-digits, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

Whistle-blowing incidents can significantly affect the long-term emotional well-being of the nurses involved, according to a National Nursing News report.

A tool to identify violent patients in medical and surgical wards was introduced in the Nov. 2011 issue of the Journal of Advanced Nursing.

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, is the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers. Here she shares 10 ideas for quality improvement studies in a surgery center.

Jan Davidson, RN, MSN, the AORN perioperative education specialist focusing on ambulatory surgery centers, discusses five ways to improve quality improvement studies at your surgery center. Note: Read Ms. Davidson's 10 ideas for ASC QI studies by clicking here.

The American Nurses Association provides a free, downloadable tip card and poster for nurses using social media.