What is consumer driven health care? How will it affect the OR? What about pay for performance? Will it affect you in your day-to-day operations? In this rapidly changing environment, perioperative services leaders need to be savvy business people who know what is happening in the external environment, how it could affect the business, and how to prepare for the changes. In addition to everything else they do, perioperative nurse leaders and managers must be relationship management experts, business development gurus and the purveyors of knowledge about the "new" leading edge.

This session will inform you about the latest trends and how they could impact you, give you leadership principles to assist you in working through the hierarchy, and help you become the entrepreneur who brings business to the organization.