Evidence-Based Nursing Research and Practice

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How We Advance Perioperative Research and Evidence-Based Practice

AORN is dedicated to using evidence-based nursing research and practice as the foundation of quality patient care.


We have gathered the following essentials of nursing research for easy access: 

How to Best Apply Evidence-Based Nursing Research & Practice
Are you consistently using the best evidence available to care for your patients? Evidence-based practice (EBP) is fundamental to quality patient care.
Be an active part of the AORN Global Surgical Conference & Expo. Evidence-based practice poster abstracts are being accepted every fall.
Requests to survey AORN membership are a courtesy to members conducting research to fill AORN perioperative nursing research gaps. Please see the new guidelines for 2022: One study (i.e., 2 emails) a month will be reviewed for dissemination, dependent on AORN schedule and priorities.