Periop 101: A Core CorriculumTM Overview
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Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM consists of 26 learning modules, delivered by AORN's e-learning platform. Each learning module includes reading and clinical assignments, as well as suggested videos from AORN's Perioperative Nursing Video Library. Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM License Agreement
Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM is a licensed program used by educators to train new perioperative nurses. Facilities may purchase a two-year license agreement from AORN for one or more surgical sites. Once your facility purchases a Periop 101 License Agreement, you will be a Periop 101 licensee. As a Periop 101 licensee, your facility will have access to AORN's e-learning platform and Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM.
As a Periop 101 licensee, you're facility will receive at no additional charge:
- Access to AORN's online Perioperative Nursing Course Directory
- Access to AORN's Periop 101 ListServ, an online discussion forum for Periop 101 licensees
- Two complimentary registrations for the Periop 101 Administrator Course
- Preceptor learning module with nursing contact hours, which may be used to prepare preceptors in all areas of your facility
Contact periop101@aorn.org for more information or to purchase.
Periop 101 Course Administrators
Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM is designed to be used in tandem with your facility's complete orientation program, including a clinical preceptorship. As a Periop 101 licensee, you must identify at least one person to coordinate learning, clinical preceptorship, and use of AORN's e-learning platform. Each licensed facility receives two complimentary registrations for the online Administrator Course offered through AORN's e-learning platform. Administrators will be given information about learning style concepts, as well as learn how to select students and preceptors, develop learning plans, view and print assignments and preceptor guidelines, review test results, view and print student transcripts, and generate reports.
Periop 101 Students
Students ("end users") will receive instructions from their administrators on how to register online for the course. End users will have access for six months to 25 learning modules worth 40 nursing contact hours on AORN's e-learning platform. Students can access the learning modules online from anywhere and at any time. In addition to selected didactic material, students can view and print study and clinical assignments.
RNs who successfully pass the final exam will receive a complimentary one-year AORN membership offer.
Healthcare Education Providers and Contractors
Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM may be licensed by hospitals and ambulatory surgery centers only. Healthcare education providers and contractors may purchase a re-seller license from AORN.
For Information about Periop 101: A Core CurriculumTM
Review the Periop 101 Information Packet. If you have questions after reviewing the Periop 101 Information Packet, please email us at periop101@aorn.org.
Accreditation
AORN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
AORN is provider-approved by the California board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13019.

