AORN Position Statements & Guidance
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Find AORN's position statements related to the topic of perioperative nursing below.
Education & Orientation
- Entry into Practice - REAFFIRMED 2026
- Orientation of the Registered Nurse and Surgical Technologist to the Perioperative Setting
- Perioperative Nursing Certification
- Perioperative Registered Nurse Residency Programs - REAFFIRMED 2026
- Responsibility for Mentoring
- Value of Clinical Learning Activities in the Perioperative Setting in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula - REVISED 2026
- Value of the Perioperative Nurse Educator - UNDER REVIEW 2026
First Assisting
- APRNs in the Perioperative Environment
- RN First Assistants - REVISED 2026
Patient & Workplace Safety
- AANA, AORN, ASPAN Position Statement on Workplace Civility
- Artificial Intelligence in Perioperative Nursing - NEW 2026
- Distractions, Disruptions, and Noise in the Perioperative Practice Setting
- Environmental Responsibility
- Healthy Perioperative Practice Environment - REAFFIRMED 2026
- Patient Safety - UNDER REVIEW
- Preventing Wrong-Patient, Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure Events - REVISED 2026
Personnel & Staffing
- Delegation in Perioperative Practice Setting (PDF) - REAFFIRMED 2026
- Criminalization of Human Errors in the Perioperative Setting
- Perioperative Registered Nurse Circulator Dedicated to Every Patient Undergoing an Operative or Other Invasive Procedure - REAFFIRMED 2024
- Role of the Health Care Industry Representative in the Perioperative Setting - REAFFIRMED 2025
- Safe Staffing and On-Call Practices - REAFFIRMED 2026
Guiding Principles
Endorsed Documents - All Documents UNDER REVIEW
- AAACN Position Statement on the Role of the Registered Nurse in Ambulatory Care
- ANA Care Coordination and Registered Nurses' Essential Role
- ANA Position Statement on Immunizations
- ANA Position Statement on Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace Violence
- Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years after: To Err is Human
- The Nurse’s Role and Responsibility in Unveiling and Dismantling Systems of Oppression: Protecting and Promoting Inclusive Strategies in Practice Settings, Policy, and Advocacy
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