AORN Position Statements
AORN position statements articulate the Association's official position or belief about certain perioperative nursing-related topics. Position statements are authored by a AORN Board of Directors appointees and are approved by the Board and the House of Delegates.
The following links connect to the AORN Position Statements:
- Allied Health Care Providers and Support Personnel in the Perioperative Practice Setting
- Care of the Perioperative Patient With an Implanted Electronic Device
- Correct Site Surgery
- Creating a Patient Safety Culture
- Criminalization of Human Errors in the Perioperative Setting
- Entry into Practice
- Environmental Responsibility
- Ergonomically Healthy Workplace Practices
- Fire Prevention
- Healthy Perioperative Work Environment
- Noise in the Perioperative Practice Setting
- One Perioperative Registered Nurse Circulator Dedicated to Every Patient Undergoing A Surgical or Other Invasive Procedure
- Operating Room Staffing Skill Mix for Direct Caregivers
- Orientation of the Registered Professional Nurse to the Perioperative Setting
- Orientation of the Surgical Technologist to the Perioperative Setting
- Patient Safety
- Patients and Health Care Workers with Bloodborne Diseases
- Pediatric Medication Safety
- Perioperative Advanced Practice Nurse
- Perioperative Care of Patients With Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders
- Responsibility for Mentoring
- RN First Assistants
- Role of the Health Care Industry Representative in the Perioperative/Invasive Procedure Setting
- Role of the Scrub Person
- Safe Work On-Call Practices
- Surgical Smoke and Bio-Aerosols
- Value of Clinical Learning Activities in the Perioperative Setting in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula
- Workplace Safety
- Policy for Sunset of AORN Position Statements