Nursing

Somnia Anesthesia recently released a white paper on cultivating collaborative relationships between perioperative and anesthesia leaders in a hospital's operating room.

Jimmy Windsor, MD, was appointed director of congenital cardiac anesthesiology at University of New Mexico Hospitals in Albuquerque.

Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota in Minneapolis and St. Paul announced plans to change nurse staffing across units and shifts, including the addition of roughly 20 nurse full-time equivalents.

Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys, Calif., has opened a new, $4.5 million labor, delivery and recovery unit.

Here are nine recent anesthesiologist appointments and accomplishments.

Heart of Florida Regional Medical Center in Haines City has opened its new $9.5 million Center for Women's Health, according to a Ledger report.

The California Supreme Court has refused to bar nurse anesthetists from administering anesthesia to hospital patients without physician supervision, according to a San Francisco Chronicle report.

Interventional pain management bills in Missouri and Tennessee have made significant legislative progress this year, according to the American Society of Anesthesiologists.

Nurses and physician assistants have significantly higher overall wellbeing scores than physicians, according to QuantiaMD's Physician Wellbeing Index.

In a session titled "Avoiding a Hurricane: How to Evaluate Your Anesthesia Provider and Ensure Your OR's Success" at the annual Becker's Hospital Review Conference in Chicago, Marc E. Koch, MD, president and CEO of Somnia, discussed how to tell…