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Perioperative Nursing Workshops and Leadership Development
AORN Workshops combine expert-led perioperative nursing education, real-world application, and meaningful networking opportunities for nurses at every career stage.
Whether you're looking to strengthen clinical practice or grow as a perioperative leader, AORN Workshops provide focused, expert led, one-day learning experiences.
- Earn CE credits
- Gain practical strategies you can apply immediately
- Connect face-to-face with perioperative professionals
Perioperative Leadership Workshops
These one-day events are designed for current and emerging leaders seeking to build the skills needed to better lead teams, drive change, and navigate today's evolving healthcare environment.
Explore timely leadership topics, learn from experienced industry leaders, and connect with peers facing similar challenges through meaningful networking and discussion.
AORN Guideline Workshops
Connect directly with the perioperative experts behind the Guidelines for Perioperative Practice, helping you translate evidence-based recommendations into safer, more efficient patient care.
Through interactive sessions, hands-on learning, and peer discussion, you'll gain practical strategies you can implement as soon as you return to your facility.
Are You a Nurse Leader Interested in Leadership and Guideline Workshops?
Register for our Leadership Workshop Bundle.
Strengthen your leadership capabilities and help nurse leaders align operations with organizational priorities such as clinical quality, financial stewardship, and resource optimization, then join us the following day to build on your knowledge of the AORN Guidelines and recommended practices. Available in Chicago, Atlanta, and San Francisco. Links to register below.
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Pricing
- AORN Leader Member - $65
- AORN Member - $75
- Non-Member - $100
- AORN Leader Member - Complimentary
- AORN Member - $40
- Non-Member - $50
- AORN Leader Member - $65
- AORN Member - $100
- Non-Member - $135
Workshop Topics
What You'll Learn at Perioperative Leadership Workshop
Perioperative services are critical to hospital quality, revenue, patient access, and performance, yet nurse leaders face resource constraints, workflow variation, staffing pressures, and increasing demands to justify investments.
Hone your leadership insight while looking at:
- The strategic value of perioperative services
- Stakeholder engagement methods and data-informed business planning
- How to perform a workflow analysis, optimize processes, and encourage sustainable operational excellence
AORN Guideline Workshop Topics & Objectives
This presentation explains the health risks of surgical smoke exposure for perioperative nurses, including harmful particulate matter and toxic chemicals like benzene. It also addresses common barriers to smoke safety compliance and offers practical strategies to improve adherence and promote safer surgical environments.
Objectives:
- Describe the potential health risks associated with surgical smoke particulate matter exposure, including the implications for perioperative personnel.
- Examine the health hazards of benzene and other toxic chemicals in surgical smoke and discuss their impact on occupational safety and long-term health outcomes.
- Identify key barriers to surgical smoke safety compliance and apply evidence-based strategies to improve adherence in perioperative settings.
Translate the updated AORN Guideline for Prevention of Unintentionally Retained Surgical Items into real-world perioperative practice. This session highlights key updates to the guideline and their implications for clinical practice. Through interactive clinical scenarios, participants will work through key decision points related to surgical counts, team communication, discrepancy resolution, and adjunct technology. Emphasis is placed on recognizing system vulnerabilities and applying practical strategies that support reliable perioperative practice.
Objectives:
- Summarize key updates and concepts in the revised AORN RSI guideline.
- Apply practical strategies to support implementation of RSI prevention processes.
- Analyze clinical scenarios to identify risks and breakdowns that contribute to RSIs.
During this session we are going to discuss why decolonization is significant in SSI prevention and review AORN guidance for determining the need for a decolonization program, as well as how to implement a program if it is indicated for your surgical population.
Objectives:
- Recognize the impact of decolonization on reducing skin flora and surgical site infections.
- Navigate risk-based decisions for developing preoperative decolonization programs using the AORN guideline for preoperative patient skin antisepsis.
Lisa Spruce, DNP, RN, CNS-CP, CNOR, ACNS, ACNP, FAAN
Director of Evidence Based Perioperative Practice
Dr. Lisa Spruce is the Director of Evidence Based Perioperative Practice for the Association of PeriOperative Registered Nurses. She is responsible for the overall leadership, development, evaluation and maintenance of the products, services, and guidelines for perioperative practice developed by AORNs Nursing Practice Team and AORNs Research and Information Center. Prior to coming to AORN she was the Clinical Manager of Surgical Services for Universal Health Services where she managed all clinical practice for 25 perioperative departments throughout the U. S. She was instrumental in bringing evidence-based practice changes to the Universal Health Care System. Dr. Spruce is an Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Adult Clinical Nurse Specialist, Perioperative Clinical Nurse Specialist and a CNOR. Dr. Spruce has authored four AORN national guidelines and was the creator and author of the AORN Journal’s Back to Basics Series for 8 years. She has been a fellow in the American Academy of Nursing since 2015.
