AORN has lowered annual membership dues from $170 to $125—over a 26% reduction—while keeping full benefits intact

The updated 2025 AORN Guideline for Transmission-Based Precautions incorporates lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic to provide risk-based strategies for managing contact, droplet, and airborne infections.

Local-only anesthesia carries unique risks, including the potential for systemic toxicity, so it’s vital for perioperative nurses to have a clear, patient-centered plan. Learn five evidence-based tips to collaborate with the surgical team, calculate safe doses, reduce patient anxiety, educate patients, and prepare for adverse reactions.

The nursing profession, while deeply rewarding, is fraught with unique stressors that can significantly impact mental health and well-being. This article aims to provide an overview of the problem, highlight key risk factors, and outline actionable prevention steps.

Meet Sarah, a new perioperative nurse beginning her first service line rotation at a large academic medical center. Sarah is empathetic, driven, and passionate about nursing. However, as she transitioned into the role of primary nurse under her preceptor, she began to experience intense anxiety. Her fears centered around the possibility of contaminating the sterile field, miscounting instruments, and retaining a surgical item.

Test your general perioperative knowledge with this crossword puzzle.

Periop nurses carry a weight of responsibility that extends far beyond the sterile environment. Periop nursing demands expertise, focus, and critical thinking under pressure within a high-stress environment. Daily encounters with trauma, patient suffering, and life-or-death situations make perioperative nurses susceptible to vicarious trauma (VT). This article provides perspective on VT, examines its relevance to perioperative nursing, and offers strategies to mitigate its effects.

Becoming a nurse in the OR is a big step! It's exciting, but it's also normal to feel stressed or anxious as you get used to this new environment.

In this special edition, we have provided tools and resources to help you and your team members talk about mental health.

Rising labor costs, tariffs, and shifting reimbursements are straining healthcare systems, making it harder to sustain costly inpatient care.

Learn how VP Dio Sumagaysay implemented a cloud-based AI/ML solution across 53 ORs.

On August 25, 2025, Delaware Governor Matt Meyer signed HB 173-1 into law, making Delaware the 20th state to enact surgical smoke evacuation legislation.

Local anesthetic systemic toxicity (LAST) is rare but potentially life-threatening. This blog outlines three evidence-based steps perioperative teams can use to recognize, respond to, and prevent harm from LAST.

The AORN Guideline for Electrosurgery outlines evidence-based practices to reduce risks such as surgical fires and patient injury. Perioperative nurses can dive deeper into these updates and gain hands-on application strategies at this year’s AORN Guidelines Workshop.

The editor-in-chief of AORN’s Guidelines for Perioperative Practice answers the most common sterile technique questions from AORN’s Clinical Consult line. From wound classification to handling expired items, here’s what every perioperative team should know.

AORN members approved new position statements on Care of the Transgender or Gender-Diverse Patient and Advanced Practice Registered Nurses in the Perioperative Environment.

Clear communication is as vital to safe surgery as clinical skill. Learn how one facility’s Patient Ambassador program improved patient satisfaction, eased anxiety, and strengthened team collaboration.

Test your general perioperative knowledge with this crossword puzzle.

Since the inception of the nursing profession, nurses have been innovative in innumerable ways to ensure that patients receive the best care possible. As nursing practice and the field of medicine continue to evolve, so does the demand for continued innovative practices.

National ophthalmic organizations, however, recommend avoiding routinely using enzymatic products on instruments that are used in the eye, and many nurses often wonder why these instruments are an exception.