Editor-in-Chief Joy Don Baker discusses highlights of the November 2016 issue of the journal, which has a special focus on conscious leadership.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2016/104/5]

Editor-in-Chief Joy Don Baker discusses highlights from the May 2017 issue of AORN Journal.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2017/105/5]

This Continuing Education article "focuses on key points of the guideline to help perioperative personnel promote smoke‐free work environments; evacuate surgical smoke; and develop education programs and competency verification tools, policies and procedures, and quality improvement initiatives related to controlling surgical smoke."[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.03.006]

"This article discusses CAUTIs, including causes and strategies for prevention."

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.02.013]

In this episode, Editor-in-Chief Joy Don Baker gives an overview of the March 2017 Special Focus issue, which explores Healthy Nurse Strategies.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2017/105/3]

"This Back to Basics article offers strategies for perioperative team members to implement to decrease their risk of harmful exposure to [chemical cleaning and disinfectant] products."

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.08.013]

"This article discusses mindfulness and its history, the potential benefits and applications to perioperative nursing, and suggestions for cultivating mindfulness."

Editor-in-Chief Joy Don Baker provides an overview of highlights of the June 2017 issue of the journal.

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/18780369/2017/105/6]

This continuing education article describes "a quality improvement project to implement a standard of care for STS contact in the OR during and after cesarean birth."

This article discusses Enhanced Time Out, "an improved communication process initiated to prevent such surgical errors as wrong‐site, wrong‐procedure, or wrong‐patient surgery."

[https://aornjournal.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1016/j.aorn.2017.03.014]