title: Take on the latest challenges for OR directors.
abstract: Operating room directors' responsibilities are changing and expanding with medical and technological advances, managed care, the nursing shortage, and market competition.
authors.affiliation: Perioperative Services, Warminster Hospital, Pa., USA.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Campione
mesh_terms: D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009718:Nurse Administrators / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009745:Nursing, Supervisory / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009873:Operating Rooms / Q000458:organization & administration*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling; D017749:Total Quality Management