Open AccessOperating Room Nursing Directors’ Influence on Anesthesia Group Operating Room Productivity
Author(s) -
Danielle Masursky,
Franklin Dexter,
Nancy A. Nussmeier
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
anesthesia and analgesia/anesthesia and analgesia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.404
H-Index - 201
eISSN - 1526-7598
pISSN - 0003-2999
DOI - 10.1213/ane.0b013e31818874a8
Subject(s) - salary , medicine , productivity , nursing , nomination , confidence interval , staffing , operating room nursing , anesthesia , accounting , business , economics , political science , law , market economy , macroeconomics
Implementation of initiatives to increase anesthesia group productivity depends not just on anesthesia groups, but on operating room (OR) nursing administration. OR nursing directors may encourage organizational change based on the needs of their hospitals and nurses. These changes may differ from those that would increase the anesthesia group's productivity. We assessed reward structures using (A) letters of nomination for the "OR Manager of the Year" award offered annually by the publication OR Manager, and (B) data from a salary/career survey of OR directors by the same publication.