Barbara McClenathan, Vice President of Nursing, RN, BSN, MBA-HCM, CNOR

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Unseen but Essential: The Sterile Processing Knowledge Demand and Staffing Crisis

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As hospitals strive to improve surgical outcomes, reduce hospital-acquired infections, and achieve compliance levels aligned with national safety standards, one of the most overlooked but critical departments is sterile processing. At the heart…

Barbara McClenathanSeptember 9, 2025

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Scrub In Podcast Ep 3 | Solving the Nurse Staffing Conundrum – Introducing Merlin Nurse Staffing

On this episode of Scrub In, Barbara McClenathan, VP of Nursing and Michael Besedick, Managing Director of Product discuss how the new Merlin Nurse Staffing Module is helping clients optimize staffing ratios, save money on…

Barbara McClenathanSeptember 18, 2024

An anesthesiologist holds a clipboard in an OR

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Scrub In Podcast Ep. 2 | Finding Win Wins for Surgical Services During the Anesthesia Crisis

Join Dr. Katherine Grichnik, Barbara McClenan, and Lindsay Lauders as they explore crucial strategies for tackling the anesthesia labor and revenue crisis in surgical services. In this insightful discussion, you'll learn about the growing demand…

Katherine GrichnikSeptember 18, 2024

Demonstration of the Nurse Staffing Dashboard

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Surgical Directions Introduces Merlin Nurse Staffing Module: Revolutionizing OR Staffing with Predictive Analytics

CHICAGO, IL. – September 18, 2024 — Surgical Directions, a leading provider of perioperative and anesthesia consulting and technology services, proudly announces the launch of the Merlin Nurse Staffing module. Developed to address the critical…

Surgical DirectionsSeptember 18, 2024

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Manual vs Automated Staffing Models

There's days when there's more rooms running past 5 PM than they're staffed for. They have a high load of add-on cases, and there's not predictability. So in order to do this manually, it's ask…

Barbara McClenathanSeptember 9, 2024

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Surgical Services Solutions During an Anesthesia Crisis

The nation’s surgical market is booming. This is accelerated by a growing senior population and recovering surgical volume (including elective procedures) after the pandemic. ASCs are key for increased volume at a lower cost.

Katherine GrichnikSeptember 5, 2024

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Building Predictability in Staffing

My background, being a director, I was very familiar with different types of staffing models, with benchmarks, industry standards. And every client that we would visit would ask us to do a staffing analysis compared…

Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024

Taking OR Performance from Unacceptable to Unbeatable in Less Than 12 Months

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Benefits of Predictive Staffing

Traditionally, ORs look at the block schedule. And they'll say, we have four ortho rooms on a Monday, two GYN rooms, et cetera. And that's how they'll try to build their staffing schedule. X number…

Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024

Surgical Directions, Healthcare Consulting, Healthcare Results

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Predictive Analytics in Staffing

By aligning all the staffing levels, we're able to identify what the needs are based on the predicted case load and doing it manually the traditional way, we certainly just couldn't accomplish that. Merlin has…

Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024

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Introduction to Staffing Issues

One of the reasons that we wanted to develop this solution is that we've seen some problems with nurse staffing throughout the industry. Almost every organization that we've been in has asked us to evaluate…

Barbara McClenathanAugust 27, 2024

Barbara McClenathan

Unseen but Essential: The Sterile Processing Knowledge Demand and Staffing Crisis

Scrub In Podcast Ep 3 | Solving the Nurse Staffing Conundrum – Introducing Merlin Nurse Staffing

Scrub In Podcast Ep. 2 | Finding Win Wins for Surgical Services During the Anesthesia Crisis

Surgical Directions Introduces Merlin Nurse Staffing Module: Revolutionizing OR Staffing with Predictive Analytics

Manual vs Automated Staffing Models

Surgical Services Solutions During an Anesthesia Crisis

Building Predictability in Staffing

Benefits of Predictive Staffing

Predictive Analytics in Staffing

Introduction to Staffing Issues

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