This Periop Portrait highlights a nurse’s inspiring journey to transform perioperative care in Pakistan by addressing systemic challenges like high infection rates and lack of accountability.

Here are their actionable strategies from the recent webinar, Leader Exchange: Strategies to Address Staffing & Culture in the OR to improve culture, empower teams and drive results.

In this week’s Periop Life blog, Dr. Louise Grant shares her top strategies for overcoming distractions and ensuring your team stays connected—even in the busiest operating rooms.

Kerri Hensler, director of nursing for perioperative services at New York-Presbyterian Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital, exemplifies leadership through connection, teamwork, and purpose.

The Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN) is proud to announce the 2025 inductees into the Fellowship of AORN (FAORN), an esteemed recognition awarded to perioperative nursing leaders who have made outstanding contributions to the profession.

Discover key insights on patient skin antisepsis for periop nurses to reduce SSI risk, including site prep, decolonization, and antiseptic selection.

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In this week's Periop Life blog, discover three compelling reasons to embrace the Perioperative RN title and how it can elevate your practice, strengthen team collaboration, and highlight your full scope of impact.

Perioperative personnel rely on team members from other departments and services, such as radiology, laboratory, environmental services, nutrition services, medical records, and respiratory services, to provide specific patient-centered care needs.

One nurse talks about advocating for a patient on his family's behalf.

How can you keep motivation high to engage learners in continuous improvement? One way to increase learning engagement is through fun, games, and competition.

Learn how mentorship can help you gain confidence, develop essential skills, and advance your career in perioperative nursing. Discover tips for finding a mentor and becoming a mentor yourself.

Test your knowledge about moderate sedation with this matching game.

Highly reliable data collection processes are necessary not only to chronicle a patient’s response to nursing interventions and clinical improvement of the patient, but also to demonstrate the healthcare organization’s progress in and dedication to improving outcomes.

In this week's Periop Life blog, trauma-sensitive yoga facilitator Marie Nutter, BSN, RN, CNOR, shares five simple exercises to help nurses reconnect and build resilience.

Your scrub person is the direct link between you and the patient. If they have what they need, the surgeon has what they need. If they are not stressed, they present a calm front to the surgeon.

Fayoke Fatade, a perioperative nurse leader at Stanford Health, balances patient care, team leadership, and the challenges of healthcare. Raised in Nigeria by nurse parents, Fayoke shifted from dreams of surgery to nursing, driven by meaningful patient connections.

See how one perioperative leader learned a valuable lesson in OR nurse retention strategies by implementing standardized onboarding education, and how she calculated Periop 101: A Core Curriculum return on investment to gain approval from decision makers in her facility.

In a recent Leader Exchange webinar session, our panel of experienced perioperative leaders shared valuable insights and lessons on attracting and cultivating the next generation of leaders.