Bonus: The Next Revolution in Surgery Is Happening Outside the OR

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CERTIFIED DOES NOT MEAN VERIFIED TO DO THE JOB Recorded live in front of a room of perioperative leaders, Dr. Jake Tayler Jacobs and Dr. Edna Gilliam make the case that the next professional revolution in surgery is happening outside the OR, in sterile processing. Dr. Edna, a periop leader who learned SPD for herself, explains why she took the assessment before asking her own leaders to. IN THIS EPISODE • How surgery came into the hospital, and why OR nurses organized in 1949 while sterile processing went 45 years without a career path • What surfaced when 125 SPD leaders across 189 facilities were assessed: certifications alone were not enough • Operational blindness: why so many periop…