AORN Workshops

Build clinical expertise, strengthen leadership skills, and stay ahead of perioperative best practices.

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

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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.

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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

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Enroll 5 or more and enjoy 50% off while building shared skills that elevate your entire facility.

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Workshop Topics

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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:

  1. Describe the potential health risks associated with surgical smoke particulate matter exposure, including the implications for perioperative personnel.
  2. 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.
  3. 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:

  1. Summarize key updates and concepts in the revised AORN RSI guideline.
  2. Apply practical strategies to support implementation of RSI prevention processes.
  3. 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:

  1. Recognize the impact of decolonization on reducing skin flora and surgical site infections.
  2. Navigate risk-based decisions for developing preoperative decolonization programs using the AORN guideline for preoperative patient skin antisepsis.

Tammy Hanks, DNP, APRN, PCNS-BC, NEA-BC, CNOR

Perioperative Practice Specialist

Dr. Hanks is a Perioperative Practice Specialist at AORN, lead author of multiple AORN Guidelines, and an advanced practice registered nurse with more than 16 years of pediatric perioperative nursing experience. She has held leadership roles ranging from Director of Quality to Chief Nursing Officer and is passionate about advancing nursing leadership, perioperative practice, and education.

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