Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Female nurses who worked in the operating rooms for 15 years or more had an increased risk for developing COPD ...

Self-reported teamwork ratings could differ substantially between operating room physicians and nurses, according to a study supported by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The study ...

Perioperative nurses are registered nurses who work in hospital surgery departments and day-surgery departments. The perioperative period refers to the time before, during and after surgical care. As ...

DAVENPORT -- Jon McCarthy's voice is the last sound the patient hears as he drifts to sleep. "We'll take good care of you," she says. When he wakes up after the 26-minute hernia repair, Mrs. McCarthy ...

WASHINGTON — Eleven-year-old Kelly K. Spencer put on her gloves, apron and face mask as she prepared to enter the hospital operating room in 2000. This wasn’t your typical take-a-child-to-work day, ...

Background:The surgical environment has multiple factors that could affect nurses’ health. The aim was to determine the effects of the working environment of operating room nurses on their health ...