Purchase the Fire Safety Tool Kit
Purchase the Fire Triangle Laminated Poster
Purchase the Video Series on DVD
Fire Safety Tool Kit
Be Prepared to Prevent and Respond
AORN developed this comprehensive resource to raise perioperative staff awareness of the inherent realities of surgical fires and to provide proactive tools to promote fire prevention, plan effective response strategies, and to develop department-specific evidence-based policies and protocols to protect perioperative patients and staff.
AORN members may download the Fire Safety Tool Kit and earn 4.0 free contract hours for successfully completing the session evaluation and registration forms included with each CD in the tool kit.
Non-Members may purchase the Fire Safety Tool Kit and will be charged a small fee for contact hour processing.
For additional information:
- Read Paula Graling's (AORN President) perspective on the value of the Fire Safety Tool Kit
- Read a dedication to patients and families impacted by the devastating consequences of surgical fires
- View excerpts from the video series' (accessible from the Supporting Documents section of this page)
- Read the ASA Practice Statement on the Prevention of Fires in the Operating Room
- Read about the SmartDraw Fire Evacuation Planning Software
The AORN Fire Safety Tool Kit was funded in part through an educational grant from Megadyne.
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.