AORN Education and Upcoming Events

With COVID-19 as an underlying condition – and potentially surging – what happens when a natural disaster or mass casualty strikes?

Based on AORN’s Guidelines for Perioperative Practice - Instrument Care and Cleaning: Guideline Update 2021.

Explore how to cultivate a steady stream of new nurses through community-focused programs. Gain insights from leaders who have implemented successfully and learn how to apply their strategies to your own organization.

Whether you’re making a business case for a capital purchase, advocating for a policy change, or managing everyday conversations, see what it takes to be an effective leader with strong negotiation skills.

The preceptor role is essential to ensuring your new team members are able to learn and assimilate effectively in the periop environment. Hear a panel of leaders share their expertise on how to engage, invigorate, and better prepare the preceptor to succeed in their vital role.

This panel will feature three industry leaders in an interactive discussion on the challenges perioperative nurses face. Panelists will explore how strengthening the three pillars of care team safety can improve team culture, support nurse wellbeing, and promote a resilient healthcare workforce.

Glean insights from a live panel of three perioperative leaders as they share lessons learned and unexpected wins during their journey to safely staff their department and maximize retention.

Gen Z Who? Despite being often grouped with Millennials, Gen Z is a unique cohort with distinct values, communication preferences, and expectations regarding work. Gain key insights around integrating Gen Z into your team, adjusting your management tactics, and tactics to help you lead a multigenerational workforce.

See how to foster a growth mindset culture in the OR, and how your efforts to do so can lead to overall improvements in staffing, technology adoption, and communication that is centered on trust.

As you think about the future state of your facility and department, succession planning for yourself and key managers on your team should be crossing your mind. See how this group of periop leaders have passionately pursued mentoring the next generation of emerging talent as they plan for what’s next.

Peer-to-peer and hierarchical incivility and bullying inside surgical departments is more pervasive now than ever before. This panel discussion will provide an increased awareness of how these behaviors manifest, tools and tactics to address, and how leaders can turn the tide inside their department.

OR staffing is challenging due to fluctuating surgical volumes, siloed decision-making, and manual workflows, but predictive analytics and automation can transform efficiency, cost control, and staff satisfaction. Join a discussion on using real-time data and AI-driven workforce planning to optimize staffing and enhance team satisfaction.

Are you strategizing how to effectively meet staffing and workload demands, while future-proofing your efficiency initiatives? Hear key insights into how new technology can be utilized to transform care in the OR.

Review significant changes to the guideline, including hand over communication, cleaning verification testing, and drying of devices after HLD.