Nurse Advocacy: How One Nurse Helped Pass a Surgical Smoke Law
On this episode of Periop Talk, we talk with Melony Prince, BSN, MSN, RN, CNOR, a clinical educator who advocated to help win a surgical smoke law in her state.
The dangers of surgical smoke didn’t hit home for Prince, a clinical educator for surgical services at Littleton Adventist Hospital in Colorado until a close colleague confided about her own health battle from a career breathing in surgical smoke.
She discusses how to turn your passion into action, what it was like to pass a bill, and why nurses make great advocates.
