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Nearly 40,000 perioperative nurses from around the world have joined the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). With a diverse population representing more than 40 different practice areas and over a dozen specialties, AORN members work in small, medium and large facilities in rural and urban settings including hospitals, freestanding and hospital-based ambulatory surgery centers, and office-based practices.

More than 91% of AORN's 40,000 members influence purchasing or make purchasing decisions for pre-, inter- and postoperative supplies, capital equipment, and services. Our members' purchasing influence, decision-making, experience, and education make them the perfect targets for your marketing or recruitment campaigns.

Target Your Market by Practice Area
Conduct a broad marketing campaign to reach the entire AORN membership or target your efforts to reach a specific audience. AORN reaches nurses in a plethora of specialty practice areas from Nurse Executives and Educators, to Central Supply and Anesthesia - including hard-to-reach ambulatory surgery nurses.

Snapshot of the AORN Membership

  • 40,000 OR nurses
  • 15,000 OR Managers/Directors
  • 63% work in acute care hospitals
  • 35% are ambulatory (hospital and free-standing) and office-based
  • 60% have worked in the OR for more than 20 years

AORN Members Influence Purchase Decisions

  • 53% Make Recommendations
  • 14% Purchase Themselves
  • 16% Are Final Decision Makers
  • 1% Sign POs

Member Practice Areas

  • Ambulatory: 513
  • Ambulatory Free-Standing: 5660
  • Ambulatory In-Hospital: 9633
  • Anesthesia: 650
  • Cardio Cath Lab: 487
  • Cardiothoracic: 8016
  • Central Processing: 3555
  • Central Supply: 737
  • Information Systems: 2378
  • Critical Care: 761
  • Emergency Department: 633
  • Endoscopy: 8395
  • General: 24064
  • Gynecology: 16892
  • Infection Control: 588
  • Integrated Health Practice: 566
  • Interventional Radiology: 545
  • Laser: 8732
  • Management: 7817
  • Materials Management: 2804
  • Neurosurgery: 10970
  • Oncology: 3462
  • Ophthamology: 10996
  • Orthopedic: 19442
  • Otolaryngology: 13753
  • PACU: 5586
  • Pediatrics: 6704
  • Plastic/Reconstructive: 13291
  • Podiatry: 10590
  • Pre-Admission: 2906
  • Purchasing: 527
  • RNFA (Facility Employed): 602
  • Trauma: 2251
  • Urology: 15754
  • Vascular: 14540
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