Position Statements

Education & Orientation

• Entry into Practice
• AORN Position Statement on Orientation of the Registered Nurse and Surgical Technologist to the Perioperative Setting
• Perioperative Nursing Certification
• Perioperative Registered Nurse Residency Programs
• Responsibility for Mentoring
• Value of Clinical Learning Activities in the Perioperative Setting in Undergraduate Nursing Curricula

First Assisting

• APRNs in the Perioperative Environment (PDF)
• RN First Assistants (PDF)

Patient & Workplace Safety

• Distractions and Noise in the Perioperative Practice Setting (PDF)
• Environmental Responsibility (PDF)
• Healthy Perioperative Practice Environment (PDF)
• HVAC Interim Guidance Statement (PDF)
• Patient Safety (PDF)
• Preventing Wrong-Patient, Wrong-Site, Wrong-Procedure Events (PDF)

Patient Care

• Care of the Older Adult in Perioperative Settings (PDF)
• Perioperative Care of Patients with Do-Not-Resuscitate (DNR) Orders (PDF)
• Prevention of Pressure Ulcers (PDF)

Personnel & Staffing

• Allied Health Care Providers and Support Personnel in the Perioperative Practice Setting (PDF)
• Criminalization of Human Errors in the Perioperative Setting (PDF)
• Perioperative Registered Nurse Circulator Dedicated to Every Patient Undergoing an Operative or Other Invasive Procedure
• Perioperative Nursing Succession Planning White Paper (PDF)
• Role of the Health Care Industry Representative in the Perioperative Setting (PDF)
• Safe Staffing and On-Call Practices (PDF)

Endorsed Documents

• AAACN Position Statement on the Role of the Registered Nurse in Ambulatory Care (PDF)
• ANA Care Coordination and Registered Nurses' Essential Role
• ANA Position Statement on Immunizations (PDF)
• ANA Position Statement on Incivility, Bullying, and Workplace Violence (PDF)
• ANA Position Statement on Inclusion of Recognized Terminologies within EHR and other HIT Solutions (PDF)
• CDC's Position Statement on Single-Dose/Single-Use Vials (PDF)
• Consensus Model for APRN Regulation (PDF)
• Criteria for the Evaluation of Clinical Nurse Specialist Master's, Practice Doctorate, and Post-Graduate Certificate Educational Programs (PDF)
• ENA/IntNSA Position Statement on Substance Use Among Nurses and Nursing Students
• Free from Harm: Accelerating Patient Safety Improvement Fifteen Years after <em>To Err is Human</em>
• Immediate Use Steam Sterilization (PDF)
• Joint Communication: OR Relative Humidity (PDF)
• Joint Position Statement on Substance Use (PDF)

Other Position Statements