Subscriptions

Advertising

Resources

About Us

Contact Us

Create An Account Forgot Your Password?
Trouble logging in or creating an account? click here
Home This Month E-Weekly Newsletter Building a Facility Article Archive Second Opinions
Search:
Benchmarking
General Surgery
Accrediting/Quality
Anesthesia
Code/Bill/Reimburse
Building/Renovating
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120426_PDI_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20110124_ImageFirst_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2011/20111003_Ansell_LB-154x100.gif
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120201_Provation_LB-154x100.gif
Outpatient Surgery E-Weekly

Malpractice Verdicts Often Favor Physicians

Physicians come out on the winning end of 80% of malpractice claims that end in jury verdicts, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hos...

Study: CT Colongraphy Effective in Finding Polyps

A CT-scan-based, laxative-free "virtual colonoscopy" may be as effective as standard colonoscopy in finding potentially cancerous polyps, according ...

Wrong-Site Prevention Video Shows the Right Way

Wrong-site, wrong-patient and wrong-procedure surgery must be prevented at all costs. The 3 steps of the Joint Commission's Universal Protocol make ...

Archive > May, 2005 Vol. VI, No. 5

Ideas That Work

Narrated Videotapes of Cataract Surgery

Edited by Diana Procuniar, RN, BA, CNOR

Diana Procuniar, RN, BA, CNOR We send each cataract patient home with a narrated videotape of his procedure. It costs about $25 to do this when you consider the expense of the recording equipment, on-site narrators (yes, that's right - narrators) and blank videotapes. Multiply that by the 5,000 cataract cases we do per year and $125,000 might seem like a hefty number, but it's proven to be a great way to market our vision care and cosmetic facial surgery practice in southwest Florida. We also use our sophisticated video equipment to conduct live surgery seminars for the public in an effort to help demystify cataract surgery. Here's how we've set up to do this.

Sign in to continue reading.
Email Address:
Password:
Categories: Ideas That Work
Keywords:
James D. Dawes, MHA, CMPE; Sherry Hardee, RN; Deb Ulmer, MSN; Frances Faulkner, RN, CLNC; Robert D. Fusco, MD; Rene Conrad, RN; Becky Chillemi, RN, BSN, CNOR; Beth Lizza, RN, CNOR; Administrative Officer Center; Becky; CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; CNOR Director; Club; D. Dawes, MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; DVD; DVDs. James D. Dawes, MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; Dad; Dawes, MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; Equipment We've; Frances; Happy; Hershey's Kisses; Hungry Since; Kids; Kisses; Lizza, RN, CNOR Director; MHA, CMPE Chief Adminis... show all keywords
James D. Dawes, MHA, CMPE; Sherry Hardee, RN; Deb Ulmer, MSN; Frances Faulkner, RN, CLNC; Robert D. Fusco, MD; Rene Conrad, RN; Becky Chillemi, RN, BSN, CNOR; Beth Lizza, RN, CNOR; Administrative Officer Center; Becky; CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; CNOR Director; Club; D. Dawes, MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; DVD; DVDs. James D. Dawes, MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; Dad; Dawes, MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; Equipment We've; Frances; Happy; Hershey's Kisses; Hungry Since; Kids; Kisses; Lizza, RN, CNOR Director; MHA, CMPE Chief Administrative Officer Center; Mom; Mug Shots A; Multiply; ORs; Officer Center; PONV Treating; Photoshop-savvy; Prevents PONV Treating; RN, CNOR Director; Sam's Club; Schedule Nobody; Shots A; Surgeons; Team Here's; VHS; Web; You Since; addition; advances; afford; agenda; allowing; anatomy; anesthesia; anesthesiologist; announce; anti-emetic; anxiety; anxious; area; asked; asks; assistant; assurance; attendance; attending; bags; basket; bears; began; beginning; bi-pocket; big; bite; blank; blurred; bought; break; budget; buying; buys; call; camera; cancer; captures; card; care; carefully; cart; cases; cataract; center; ceramic; chance; check; child; chips; city; close; coffee; coincide; colon; colonoscopy; commemorate; comments; completed; complexity; complimentary; computer's; conduct; confident; congratulate; connect; continued; continues; cosmetic; costs; crash; creative; cross-training; customize; day; demystify; describes; designed; desirable; desk; difference; digital; discharge; discipline; displayed; e-mail; easy; eat; eating; ecstatic; edge; efficient; effort; end; endorsement; energized; enjoy; equipment; escorted; establishments; event; exam; expense; extra; face; facial; facility; families; family; fat; feature; feed; feedback; fill; filled; five-year; flexible; folder; follow-up; food; found; frequently; friends; give; giving; good; great; gummy; half-mile; hand-delivers; hardware; hefty; helping; hidden; high; hold; home; hour; hour-long; hours; important; improve; incision; includes; independent; insertion; inside; installed; instituted; intraoperative; item; knew; leaves; likes; line; lineup; list; listen; live; local; long; lookout; lose; machines; made; mail; make; making; manage; manager; market; materials; medical; member; mentioned; microscope; middle; mile; mixing; modified; money; monitor; mounted; moving; mug; narrated; narrator; nausea; nearest; nice; nicer; night; note; notice; number; nurses; nursing; observation; offer; on-site; one's; open; opened; order; ordering; orthopedic; other's; outpatient; parents; part; participate; passed; paste; patch; patient; patients; pediatric; people; percent; person; phacoemulsification; pharmaceutical; pharmacy; photo; photo-editing; physician; picked; places; plays; pleasant; pleasantly; pop; positive; possibly; post-cataract; post-op; post-operative; posted; practice; pre-op; prescribe; prior; procedure; productive; proven; provide; public; put; quality; questions; ran; random; randomly; rate; recent; reception; recognition; recording; reduce; refreshments; relative; rep; replay; require; response; restock; result; resuscitation; reviews; room; rooms; runs; satisfaction; save; savings; schedule; scopolamine; script; seated; sedated; seminars; send; session; set; she'd; sheet; shelving; shop; showing; sick; sign; simple; sits; sitting; situation; snacks; software; sophisticated; southwest; space; speakers; spend; staff; standing; stay; stop; store; subject; suffering; summary; sunglasses; supply; surgeon; surgery; surgical; surprised; survey; surveyed; surveys; tapes; techs; telephone; template; things; three-nurse; thumbs; time; tool; train; transcribes; treats; trips; two-nurse; understand; unedited; unsung; upgrading; vary; vending; video; videotape; view; vision; vomiting; walk; watch; ways; wear; week; weights; welder's; white; wire; work; works; worth; year; years

© Copyright Herrin Publishing Partners LP. REPRODUCTION OF THIS COPYRIGHTED CONTENT IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED. We encourage LINKING to this content; view our linking policy here.

PRODUCT & SERVICE RESOURCES
Did You See This?
A showcase of products and services geared to make your facility better.

Architects' Showcase
Is a beautiful, efficient new facility in your future?
/_media/adv/web/images/2012/20120323_ORX_AR-300x250.jpg
Other Articles That May Interest You
OR Staff Walk Laps During Lunch Break in Honor of Fallen Friend
12 laps around the surgical department's circular hallway equals 1 mile.
7 Steps to Effective Specimen Handling
Professional organization's guidelines eliminate the risk of error.
How Do You Derail DVT Risks?
3 tips for heading off potentially life-threatening post-operative blood clots.