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Alert: Same-Day Surgery now awards AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, but please be aware that the January, February, and March 2018 issues do not offer that particular credit. Subscribers can still earn credits from more current issues or by rereading past issues that offer credit and taking the online test with a passing score.

Same-Day Surgery explores outpatient surgery in all settings, including freestanding surgery centers, hospital-based outpatient surgery programs, and office-based surgical suites. As changes in healthcare drive increasing numbers of procedures to the outpatient setting, we help you stay one step ahead of potential liability, accreditation and regulatory noncompliance, and financial downfall. Same-Day Surgery provides all the information an administrator, business manager, or clinical manager needs to know, including patient safety, cost savings, reimbursement, regulations, accreditation, and infection control.

Same-Day Surgery Covers:

• Tips from your peers on QI studies and benchmarking
• What you need to know before your accreditation survey
• New surgical procedures and trends
• How to address staffing difficulties
• Learn how to improve staff satisfaction and boost retention
• Latest news on infection control in outpatient surgery
• And much more...

Click here to see all recently published issues/articles from Same-Day Surgery.

 

Benefits of Subscribing to Same-Day Surgery Include:

• 12 Issues
• 21 Nursing contact hours and 21 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™
• Special Annual Issues on Saving Money and Reducing Liability
• Quarterly Accreditation Supplement
• Million-dollar Ideas From Your Peers
• Monthly Column on Management Topics.

Faculty:

Physician Editor:

Steven A. Gunderson, DO, FACA, DABA, CASC
CEO/Medical Director
Rockford (IL) Ambulatory Surgery Center

Nurse Planner:

Kay Ball, RN, PhD, CNOR, FAAN
Professor of Nursing
Otterbein University
Westerville, OH

Editorial Advisory Board:

Stephen W. Earnhart, RN, CRNA, MS
President and CEO
Earnhart & Associates
Austin, TX

Ann Geier,  MS, RN, CNOR, CASC
Vice President
Clinical Informatics, Surgery
SourceMedical
Wallingford, CT

John J. Goehle, MBA, CASC, CPA
Chief Operating Officer
Ambulatory Healthcare Strategies
Rochester, NY

Jane Kusler-Jensen, BSN, MBA, CNOR
Specialist Master, Service Operations/Healthcare Providers/Strategy 
& Operations
Deloitte
Chicago

Mark Mayo, CASC, MS
ASC Administrator
Associated Surgical Center
Arlington Heights, IL

Roger Pence
President, FWI Healthcare
Edgerton, OH

Sheldon S. Sones, RPh, FASCP
President
Sheldon S. Sones & Associates
Newington, CT 

Rebecca S. Twersky, MD, MPH 
Chief of Anesthesia
Josie Robertson Surgery Center
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
New York City

Continuing Education Information:

Objectives:

• Identify clinical, managerial, regulatory, or social issues relations to ambulatory surgery care;
• Identify how current issues in ambulatory surgery affect clinical and management practice;
• Incorporate practical solutions to ambulatory surgery issues and concerns into daily practice.

Target Audience:
This education activity is intended for administrators, clinical leaders, business office leaders, and all clinicians and staff in all outpatient surgery settings.

Accreditation and Credit Designation:
Relias LLC is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Relias LLC is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Contact hours [1.75] will be awarded to participants who meet the criteria for successful completion. California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider CEP#13791.

Relias LLC designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (21 per year). Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This activity in effect for 36 months after the date of publication.

Instructions For Participation:
Physicians and nurses participate in this CME/CE activity by reading the issues, using the provided references for further research and studying the questions at the end of each issue. Participants will then be directed to a website, where they will complete an online assessment to show what they've learned. They must score 100 on the assessment in order to complete the activity, but they are allowed to answer the questions multiple times if needed. Once that is submitted, they will receive their credit letter. Twice yearly after the test, their browser will be directed to an activity evaluation form, which must be completed to receive their credit letter.