AORN Education and Upcoming Events

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.

This comprehensive ASC administrator course helps new ambulatory surgery leaders to hit the ground running. It helps administrators pinpoint and prioritize the most crucial duties in their first year and provides supporting education to help you tackle these responsibilities like an experienced administrator.

Unlock the secrets to expanding service lines. Get the step-by-step process -- from market analysis to implementation, with facility, financial, & staffing considerations -- to navigate growth in the ASC.

This course provides comprehensive knowledge on evidence-based practices and strategies to fulfill regulatory and accreditation requirements, including the initiation and administration of an Infection Control Program.

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

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.

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.