Education Courses for Individuals

Join AORN for a 1.5-day virtual live advanced course for Medical Laser Safety Officers to ensure you have the most current information and tools to safeguard your colleagues and patients — and be successful in this important leadership role.

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.

Understand safe and accurate administration and documentation of intraoperative medications and solutions.

Learn how to prepare for, recognize, and treat various obstetric emergencies that may arise during pregnancy.

At this live webinar you’ll gain the necessary knowledge to implement and fine tune an efficient robotic surgery program in the acute care setting. You’ll hear about best practices to achieve programmatic alignment, what staffing considerations you should make, and how to implement recruitment and retention ideas tailored to the unique demands of the program.

Introduces the perioperative registered nurse (RN) to the elements of a culture of safety and the effect of human factors on delivery of care.

Learn specific behaviors to participate in patient and family educational activities.

Learn how to apply safety principles specific to care of patient in the surgical suite.

Learn evidence-based practices for skin preps; types of prepping agents; prepping procedures; and documentation for common types of surgery.

Not everyone in the operating room is a nurse or a surgeon. This course is primarily intended to educate clinical team members, who are not RNs, about safe surgical practices.

This course provides an overview of adult Cardiovascular Procedures including an anatomy review of the heart and vascular system, nursing care for the patient, the role of the perioperative RN, and an example of the workflow.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional must know prior to being assigned to an adult Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG) procedure.

This course provides key topics for perioperative nurses to increase their knowledge and provide optimal care for the patient undergoing gastrointestinal (GI) procedures of the upper and lower GI tract.

This course provides key guidance for the perioperative nurse to increase their knowledge and assist them in providing optimal care for the patient undergoing a hand and wrist procedure in the inpatient or outpatient setting.

This course provides perioperative nurses and other healthcare professionals who are new to orthopedics with important, applicable information about spine procedures.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional must know prior to being assigned to a total hip arthroplasty procedure.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional must know prior to being assigned to a total knee arthroplasty procedure.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional should know prior to being assigned to a total shoulder arthroplasty procedure.

This course will help you bridge the knowledge gaps that exist by helping you accurately assess nursing practice competencies and target education to the individual’s specific areas of weakness.

Identify the essentials of cleaning the perioperative areas to provide a safe environment for both patients and healthcare workers.