Upcoming Webinars

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AORN has partnered with APS to offer the following webinar:

APS Surgical Safety Series: Laparoscopic Error - A Resource to Empower Surgical Teams
 
Date:  Wednesday, September 8
Time:  9 am (Mountain Time)

Regardless of the surgical procedure, laparoscopy adds risks that are associated with the endoscopic technique and instrumentation. These risks are reflected in the vascular and organ injuries attributed to needle and trocar entry.

Experts expected that the rate of these injuries would drop, as surgeons and hospitals built expertise through volume of operations performed. However, no such trend has been yet recognized. Why not? The quandary is clear: on one hand, laparoscopy provides many benefits to patients, including shorter recovery times; but on the other hand, surgeons must assess the risks, based on their levels of expertise. Patient factors should weigh heavily in the decision: for a riskier patient, selecting a riskier procedure would generally be inadvisable.

Using a "system's view" to frame the common technical errors associated with laparoscopy, the discussion will focus on practical approaches for both surgeons and their supporting clinical teams to reduce the errors commonly associated with malpractice claims involving laparoscopy.

Objectives: 

• Describe patient positioning and potential patient positioning injuries that are associated with laparoscopic procedures
• Identify injury risks that are related to laparoscopic procedures
• List instruments and equipment checks required for any laparoscopic procedure
• Explain how a system approach to patient safety can be applied to laparoscopic procedures

Speaker: Dr. Martin November

Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

There will be no contact hours awarded for this webinar.

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Board of Directors Webinar Series:
CNOR Certification & Re-Certification: Are you Eligible? 

Date:  Thursday, September 9
Time:  6 pm (Mountain Time)

Perioperative nursing certification represents a demonstration of clinical knowledge and practice standards.  This session is designed to provide explanation and clarification on current perioperative nursing certification and re-certification processes and requirements.  Included will be a brief history of nursing certification, differentiation from nursing licensure, and strategies to promote ongoing certification.

Webinar will also include open discussion on issues impacting perioperative nurses.

Objectives:
• List eligibility requirements of perioperative nursing certification and recertification
• Differentiate nursing certification from licensure
• Describe the history in perioperative nursing certification development

Speakers:
Darin M. Prescott, MSN, MBA, RN, BC, CNOR, CASC
Mary O’Neale, RN, MN, CNOR

Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

This activity will award one-half (.5) CH upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

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Can't make this date?  Watch this webinar at your convenience and register for the REPLAY (available after the webinar).

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Free!  Taking Employee Safety Into Your Own Hands

Date:  Thursday, September 16, 2010
Time:  2 pm (MT)

This webinar will discuss employee safety in the perioperative setting.  American workers suffer over 4 million occupational injuries and illnesses each year and thousands die as a result of accidents at work. The operating room can be a very dangerous environment. Pins will share the importance of developing and implementing standards that prevent occupational injury, illness, and death. At this webinar you will learn the important steps perioperative nurses must take in order to protect themselves.

Objectives:

• Identify standards and guidelines applicable to employee safety in OR.
• Discuss the top three risks from a potentially serious, cost, and complaints.
• Describe risk reduction strategies.

Speaker: Judith Pins, RN, BSN, MHRD, MBA & Allynn Petersen, RN, MSA, CNOR

Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

This activity will award one (1) CH upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - $5
Non-Member - $10

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Sponsored by:

Can't make this date?  Watch this webinar at your convenience and register for the REPLAY (available after the webinar).

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Free!  Evolution of the Perioperative Nursing Language and Its Significance to Practice 

Date:  Tuesday, September 21, 2010
Time:  2 pm (MT)

The creation, growth, and development of the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), provides a standardized method for perioperative documentation.  It provides a method to document perioperative nursing’s value, cost-effectiveness, and contributions to allow nurse researchers the ability to compare intervention effectiveness on patient outcomes and develop the evidence-base required for standards, recommended practices, and guidelines.  This webinar will review the historical evolution of the perioperative nursing language, PNDS, its integration into the Standardized Perioperative Framework (SPF), and its impact to perioperative practice.   

AORN has taken the lead in developing and promoting the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), a standardized language that facilitates the documentation and evaluation of the care provided by perioperative nurses.  Order your copy online today!

Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

This activity will award one (1) CH upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

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Can't make this date?  Watch this webinar at your convenience and register for the REPLAY (available after the webinar).

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AMBULATORY:  The Art of Credentialing in a Surgery Center

Date:  Wednesday, September 22
Time:  2 pm (MT)

Speaker: Beverly A. Kirchner, RN, BSN, CNOR, CASC

Take a journey with us and learn how to create your center’s credentialing process.  Discover ways of making sure the credentialing process is carried out appropriately.  Be assured the allied health and physicians allowed to work in your center are who they say they are and have the skills to do what they claim they can do. Learn how to prepare a physician or allied health personnel file to meet CMS, The Joint Commission and AAAHC standards.  Discover what peer review is and how a report card will assist you in the re-credentialing process. When finishing this course you should be able to perform the credentialing process yourself or if you use an outsource company (“CVO”) you will understand how to oversee the CVO’s work. You will be provided tools to adapt to your facility to help you achieve the requirements of CMS , The Joint Commission and AAAHC.

• Review the standards for credentialing in a surgery center.
• Define allied health personnel.
• Define medical staff.
• Review contents of a credentialing file.
• Discuss Peer Review.
• Discuss staff report cards.

Investment Information:
Member - $79
Non-Member - $129

This activity will award one (1) CH upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - $5
Non-Member - $10

Register Now

Can't make this date?  Watch this webinar at your convenience and register for the REPLAY (available after the webinar).

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The Benefit of Using a Standardized Perioperative Nursing Language and Its Impact for a Data Repository

Date: November 16, 2010
Time: 2 pm (Mountain Time)

Perioperative departments document and report information regularly. The work that is needed to create a report from perioperative documentation often requires tedious manipulation and manual involvement. Even with all the scrutiny in creating the reports, the people receiving the reports sometime question the data integrity due to a lack of understanding of the data points, and often the information falls short to be used for operational decision making, benchmarking, and research.  This webinar will address the compelling need to standardize perioperative nursing documentation with the perioperative nursing language, PNDS, for perioperative nurses and management to guide safer, effective and efficient patient-centered care which compares intervention effectiveness on patient outcomes.


Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

This activity will award one (1) CH upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

Register Now    

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Free!  Employee Safety in the Perioperative Setting

Date:  Thursday, September 16

Time:   2 - 3 pm

This webinar will discuss employee safety in the perioperative setting.  American workers suffer over 4 million occupational injuries and illnesses each year and thousands die  as a result of accidents at work. The operating room can be a very dangerous environment. Pins will share the importance of developing and implementing standards that prevent occupational injury, illness, and death. At this webinar you will learn the important steps perioperative nurses must take in order to protect themselves.

Objectives:

• Identify standards and guidelines applicable to employee safety in OR.
• Discuss the top three risks from a potentially serious, cost, and complaints
• Describe risk reduction strategies.

Speaker: Judith Pins,RN, BSN, MHRD, MBA & Allynn Petersen, RN, MSA, CNOR

Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - FREE

This activity is worth 1 CE upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - $5
Non-Member - $10

Register Now

Sponsored by:

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Education Hot Topic:

What you need to know about Surgical Attire

Date: Previously Recorded Webinar

Preventing surgical site infections in the perioperative suite is a priority for all members of the surgical team. Reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid is reduced if preventable infections are acquired during the patient stay. The use of appropriate surgical non-sterile attire prior to entering the semi-restricted and restricted areas of the surgical suite plays a critical role in preventing infections.  This webinar will address both appropriate and inappropriate surgical attire.  Also covered will be upcoming changes to AORN’s Recommended Practice on Surgical Attire.

Speakers: Joan Blanchard, RN, BSN,MSS,CNOR,CIC
Nancy Bjerke, RN, MPH, CIC

Investment Information:
Member - FREE
Non-Member - $119

This activity is worth 1 CE upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - $5
Non-Member - $10

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Once you have registered you will recieve and email with a link to access the registration for the meeting. Completion of your registration through this link in advance is required for participation and lines are first come first served.

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AORN Thanks the AORN Education Corporate Sponsor Colorado Technical University who makes the quarterly Perioperative Webinar Series possible.

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The Art of Credentialing in a Surgery Center

Date:  Wednesday, September 20, 2010
Time:  2 pm (MT)

Speaker: Beverly A. Kirchner, RN, BSN, CNOR, CASC

Take a journey with us and learn how to create your center’s credentialing process.  Discover ways of making sure the credentialing process is carried out appropriately.  Be assured the allied health and physicians allowed to work in your center are who they say they are and have the skills to do what they claim they can do. Learn how to prepare a physician or allied health personnel file to meet CMS, The Joint Commission and AAAHC standards.  Discover what peer review is and how a report card will assist you in the re-credentialing process. When finishing this course you should be able to perform the credentialing process yourself or if you use an outsource company (“CVO”) you will understand how to oversee the CVO’s work. You will be provided tools to adapt to your facility to help you achieve the requirements of CMS , The Joint Commission and AAAHC.

• Review the standards for credentialing in a surgery center.
• Define allied health personnel.
• Define medical staff.
• Review contents of a credentialing file.
• Discuss Peer Review.
• Discuss staff report cards.

Investment Information:
Member - $79
Non-Member - $129

This activity will award one (1) CH upon completion of webinar evaluation.
Member - $5
Non-Member - $10

Register Now

Can't make this date?  Watch this webinar at your conveience and register for the REPLAY (available after the webinar). 

For AORN members only. Please check back for the Specialty Assembly webinar schedule.

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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.

Check with your state board of nursing for acceptability of education content for relicensure.
AORN recognizes these activities as continuing education for registered nurses. This recognition does not imply that AORN or the American Nurses Credentialing Center approves or endorses products mentioned in the activity.
AORN reserves the right to substitute equally qualified presenters in case of an emergency and to cancel or substitute sessions.