AORN Education and Upcoming Events

Learn various surgical instruments to help anticipate the needs of the surgical team during surgical procedures.

Based on AORN’s Guidelines for Perioperative Practice - Surgical Smoke Safety: Guideline Update 2021.

Understand the care and handling of specimens.

This webinar is designed to inform perioperative nurses about prevention of perioperative pressure injuries.

Healthcare leaders are uniquely positioned to advocate for underserved populations in their communities who lack access to proper nutrition, preventive care and essential services that cause comorbidities and worse health outcomes such as sudden cardiac, maternal-fetal, or COVID-19 deaths.

This panel discussed closing the gaps before a new, unimaginable scenario overwhelms your systems.

Learn how to identify the key members of your robotics steering committee, how to align them with your hospital’s goals, and how to create ownership in driving toward future growth.

Uncover the importance of a dedicated robotics coordinator’s role in an efficient robotics team, and how to contain costs through efficiency measures. You’ll leave with Monday morning solutions that you can implement right away.

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

Some creative approaches – alongside the basics – are helping open the pipeline to recruit OR nurses. But how do you decide what to start, expand, or throw out for success?

Based on AORN’s Guidelines for Perioperative Practice - Venous Thromboembolism: Guideline update 2023.

Explore how virtual nursing can enhance perioperative care. This course covers key concepts, real-world use cases, and the benefits for patients, caregivers, and care teams.

This 1.0 CH webinar prepares a perioperative nurse to understand the importance of sterile storage as part of sterility assurance and to list two sterile storage guidelines.

Learn about the events leading to a hospital fire evacuation, evacuation of patients and staff, and reopening the hospital focusing on surgical processes. Join this webinar as one surgical team shares its experiences including what was done well and what will be done differently in future.