Plan your response to growing demand for minimally invasive surgery. Identify opportunities and explore strategies for expanding service lines and surgical settings that optimize staff and investment in robotics.

Make sure your facility has the most current, evidence-based guidelines to ensure safe patient care and worker safety. You'll have access to the recently updated (Nov. 2022) Guideline for Minimally Invasive Surgery.

A panel of experts from around the country describe their experiences and best practices in addressing personnel shortages and how they have been able to leverage their robotics service lines to alleviate strain.

Part of the ASC Academy Leadership Guides series, this course provides ASC leaders with the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to plan, conduct and evaluate the effectiveness of emergency drills: fire, local anesthetic systemic toxicity, active shooter, cardiac arrest, hospital transfer, and malignant hyperthermia.

This interactive course is the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leader's go-to resource for navigating the annual ASC Quality Reporting submission, which is vital to the success of your surgery center.

The premier review course for the ambulatory infection preventionist certification exam. Study for the CAIP exam and learn infection prevention best practices.

Learn how to safely position patients for an invasive or noninvasive procedure.

Learn how to administrate moderate sedation/analgesia through all intraoperative phases of care.

Increase understanding of the evidence-based practices needed for performing safe and effective high-level disinfection.

Identify how to prevent infection in the surgical setting by implementing standard and transmission-based precautions.

Understand the physiological, cognitive/psychosocial, and sociological care of the older adult.

Understand the scope of perianesthesia nursing and the skill sets needed to perform this role.

Learn how to address the complex requirements in caring for the obstetric patient in the perioperative phases of care.

The goal of this course is to familiarize nurses and other health care personnel with the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), a standardized nursing language that will support evidence-based perioperative nursing practice.

Understand wound closure principles and how their application in the surgical setting can contribute to optimal outcomes.

Develop and implement best practices to prevent sharps injuries and reduce bloodborne pathogen exposure.

Identify and minimize the potential environmental hazards to patients and healthcare workers.

The learner will have the knowledge to confidently implement the evidence-based practices and recommendation from the AORN Guideline for Sterilization on types of sterilization modalities used today; loading the sterilizer; load configuration; transport of sterile items; quality control measures; and installation, care, and maintenance of sterilization equipment.

Learn the most effective ways to optimize patient care practices through proper hand hygiene.

Learn specific behaviors to participate in patient and family educational activities.