AORN Education and Upcoming Events

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.

Acquire basic nursing care considerations for a patient undergoing minimally invasive or endoscopic surgery.

Acquire essential knowledge on environmental cleaning in the surgical setting to help minimize exposure to infectious organisms.

This endoscopy training course for nurses teaches how to care for patients undergoing upper and lower GI procedures.

Train those new to sterile processing concepts and the department by using standardized education in processing of OR instruments and devices.

The purpose of the Guidelines Assessment is to identify gaps in knowledge, clinical reasoning skills, and problem-solving skills related to current Guidelines for Perioperative Practice.

Learn to use the nursing process in documenting safe and effective patient care in the perioperative setting.

Learn about various methods of hemostasis, the use of sponges and drains, and ways to prevent retained surgical items (RSIs).

Introduction to Perioperative Nursing is an undergraduate course for nursing students and provides essential knowledge of pre-, intra-, and post-operative practices through the continuum of care for surgical patients.

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.

AORN’s Knowledge Assessment is an online evaluation designed to identify the knowledge gaps of experienced nurses and travelers.

Medical Laser Safety for Operators is a 2.0 CH course that prepares perioperative laser operators to reduce risk to patients and healthcare staff during medical laser procedures.

AORN now offers an Adult Medication Safety Assessment that can be used as an on-boarding tool to establish a baseline level of knowledge on medications and also knowledge of Perioperative Standards and Recommended Practices.