The present as well as the future holds exciting opportunities for advanced practice nurses (APNs), not the least of which is participation during surgery as a first assistant. In 1990, when the ...

Chances are, unless you work in the operating room, you are wondering what in the world that is. When I introduce myself to a patient in the preoperative area, they often ask me what I actually do. I ...

Properly trained certified surgical first assistants can greatly improve operating room efficiency, physician satisfaction and, most importantly, patient outcome and care, according to Debra Woods, ...