Chief Nursing Officer
Overcome nurse fatigue and coordination issues in the OR
CNOs use Apella to uncover hidden inefficiencies --- reclaiming care team capacity, cutting overtime, and preventing nurse burnout.
Is nurse attrition
blocking your CNO goals?
Burnout is only made worse by case overruns and comms breakdowns. And reorganizing staffing and schedules without the right data too often makes things worse, not better.
Keep teams informed and in-sync
Real-time analytics predict which ORs are likely to run early or late before the schedule falls behind. Live feed video provides visibility into every OR and likely delay.
- Overtime cut by 30 minutes per OR per month
- Share of accurately scheduled cases doubled
- Late time cut by 69 mins on days with reschedules
See what drove delays and how to improve
Run granular analyses across cases, turnovers, and on-time starts. Apella reveals workflow trends and phase-level variation. Review prior cases and turnovers in context.
- Periops gain credibility to make timely adjustments
- Adoption of best practices to improve efficiency
- Nurses focus on cases and issues that matter most
Enable care teams to focus and prioritize
Using computer vision and machine learning to automate certain manual processes, Apella decreases workflow conflicts and helps nurses reclaim capacity.
- Latent records cut from an hour delay to a minute
- Average 5% increase in patients treated per OR
- Late OR days reduced by 46 percentage points
Make sure every nurse goes home on time
With one click, anyone can see expected case duration and update the plan so everyone goes home on time (without making phone call after phone call).
Beth Orr
Chief Nursing Officer
28%
LESS OVERTIME WITH APELLA
Frequently asked questions
What does a chief nursing officer do?
A Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) is the senior executive responsible for nursing practice, workforce strategy, and patient care quality across a hospital or health system. CNOs set staffing standards, monitor safety and quality metrics, and represent nursing's priorities in the C-suite, balancing patient outcomes with nurse workload, safety, and retention.
What role does a CNO play in operating room performance?
The OR is a hospital's busiest, highest-acuity setting, and perioperative nurses absorb the operational strain of inaccurate schedules and manual documentation. CNOs are accountable for protecting this workforce from burnout while still supporting surgical volume and margin goals — priorities that pull in opposite directions without real-time operational data.
What are some ambient AI use cases for a chief nursing officer?
Ambient AI gives chief nursing officers insights based on ground-truth data to understand care team efficiency, productivity, and challenges that may need intervention, in the form of training and best practices. The AI automatically documents perioperative events back to the EHR, and forecasts case duration and turnover to support more effective staffing.
How does a chief nursing officer use Apella?
CNOs use Apella mainly through their teams: charge nurses monitor live room and case status instead of walking between rooms, while perioperative leaders use retrospective analytics to benchmark performance. At the executive level, Apella gives CNOs objective operational data — not manually entered timestamps — to guide staffing and workforce decisions.
What results can a chief nursing officer expect from Apella?
Apella customers average a 5% increase in surgical case volume without adding OR staff. In peer-reviewed research at Houston Methodist, cases flagged by Apella saw a 40% improvement in scheduling accuracy and a 46-percentage-point reduction in late-ending OR days. Tampa General reduced interruptions enough to save an estimated 40,000 staff minutes in 10 months, also reducing the likelihood of SSIs by restricting unnecessary air flow that could put the patient at risk during surgery.