RN Continuing Education

Safe Surgery Together

Whether you want to advance your clinical capabilities, or are responsible for the performance of your surgical teams, AORN has an evidence-based solution designed to meet your goals.

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Explore how these clinical—and medical surgical facility—education offerings can continue to improve the care, safety and outcomes of your patients throughout your career.

Recorded Webinars

Recorded educational webinars are available from the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses. These webinars reflect the newest edition of the AORN Guidelines.

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Learn the different postoperative phases and levels of patient care and incorporate that knowledge into practice. The learner will be able to integrate knowledge about discharge teaching and the teach-back method for essential patient and family understanding.

This course introduces the periop RN to the essential activities of patient-centered assessment and education in the preoperative environment.

Learn the physiological and psychosocial aspects of the perioperative assessment.

Based on AORN’s Guidelines for Perioperative Practice - Autologous Tissue: Guideline Update 2020.

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.


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Learn how borescopes enhance instrument reprocessing and reduce infection risk. Covers reprocessing steps, the limits of visual inspection, and how borescopes detect hidden contamination.

This course provides an overview of the anatomical and physiological differences between children and adults and reviews the developmental stages that establish the basis for safe care.

The perioperative environment can be overwhelming. Bright lights, strange sounds, new faces, it’s a scary place for any child but more so for those with sensory sensitivity. This course gives perioperative nurses the tools to meet those moments with skill and empathy.

Evidence-based practice (EBP) is fundamental to quality patient care. It provides clinicians the tools needed to promote safer patient care and positive patient outcomes in all care settings.

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

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