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In a guest post from Michelle Nolander, MSN, RN discover three words that can help create more nurse-life balance in your life.

AORN is proud to announce that, on March 24, two more states joined the ranks of the surgical smoke-free: Arizona and Washington.

UPDATED: Review AORN’s latest guideline revision to improve your team’s hand hygiene to improve patient and staff safety.

Make a fresh commitment as a team: understand the latest evidence-based practices and educational resources on RSI prevention. Learn about a new safety designation to promote your commitment to prevent RSIs.

Perioperative nurses are astute patient advocates, and they know the importance of quality in the products and medical devices they use in patient care.

Refresh your knowledge on the safest approaches for maintaining sterile technique to reduce surgical site infection.

Nurses are complaining about a rise in incivility – here are reminders to improve your culture.

Putting evidence into practice is not always simple. Here are a few ways to take the headache out of guideline implementation and pave a path for evidence-based care.

Fire incidents are on a steady rise in healthcare, increasing every year since 2018, according to The Joint Commission’s sentinel event summary data (PDF) —and their latest sentinel event report shows early 2022 numbers are on pace to continue the upward trend.

ASCs are expected to comply with accreditation standards not only to achieve and then maintain accreditation, but also, and more importantly, to help improve and better ensure the safe delivery of high-quality patient care. The "AAAHC Quality Roadmap," issued annually by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC), is designed to assist with both objectives.

AORN’s staff nurses share why documentation is essential to protect your practice and offer ways to prevent documentation burden.

These daily practices are habit for perioperative nurses, but they are also based in evidence. Where does this evidence come from and how does it translate into safe patient care?

Use a standardized procedure to prevent retention of foam pieces used with negative-pressure wound therapy devices.

Looking ahead is smart. It gives you a chance to envision where you want to be in your professional journey and what you need to do to get there. Perioperative nursing is unique because there is a defined series of rungs in the career ladder that many nurses take.

If you think you are ready to step up from clinical practice to take on a leadership role, it’s important to understand the true scope of what it takes to be a good perioperative nursing leader. Here are several characteristics of strong perioperative leaders.

Getting upper management to notice you, your skills, and your contributions requires a strategy. Here’s the formula to get your boss to see the impact you're making every day.

Perhaps you just graduated from nursing school and you are considering a career in the OR? Maybe you are an experienced perioperative nurse feeling less than motivated in your current position? No matter where you are in your nursing career, your dream job is out there waiting for you—all you need is the courage to find it!

A large number of perioperative nurses are nearing the end of their career and are looking forward to life after retirement, where they can focus on family and *gasp* themselves.