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Free digital magazine with brief, practical, interactive content for your first few years of periop practice.

Stitch Me Up!

Pursuing a New Leadership Role?

Explore the key financial & operational concepts you need to know for managing a periop team.

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eGuidelines Plus for Your Facility

Guidelines & evidence-based tools to equip your periop team.

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Introducing a new step-by-step guide with templated tools to help you plan, conduct, & measure the effectiveness of emergency drills: fire, malignant hyperthermia, active shooter, & more!

Stronger Together

Engaging with your professional association is an essential step in your perioperative journey. Your AORN membership provides clinical practice resources and CNE, new mentorship opportunities, and connections to a community that supports, encourages, and motivates you.

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Spotlight on Education

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Written by AORN’s expert perioperative nurse authors for new and returning labor and delivery nurses who participate in Cesarean section procedures, this hybrid course provides the necessary clinical foundation for safe surgical practice.

This online facility subscription provides access to the most current AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice and comes with a complete set of implementation tools and resources to empower your team to apply standardized techniques facility-wide.

3.5 CH, 3.5 AEU

A Guide to Governance provides ASC Leaders necessary training on governance, licensure, preparation for accreditation survey, and credentialing. This interactive course also includes various implementation tools, along with video-based instructions, to take the guesswork out of putting your knowledge into practice.

Periop 101: A Core Curriculum OR is the premier perioperative nurse education program for RNs entering the perioperative specialty.

Register for AORN’s leadership training course for ambulatory administrators and learn how to run a more profitable ASC and prepare for the CASC exam.

To keep their young patients safe, surgical teams must understand the anatomical and physiological differences between children and adults.

4.5 CH, 4.5 AEU, 3 IPCH

This interactive course is the ambulatory surgery center (ASC) leader's go-to resource for navigating the annual ASC Quality Reporting submission, which is vital to the success of your surgery center.

Using evidence-based guidelines, AORN defines the standards that help keep healthcare workers and surgical patients safe – while also providing education and resources to support high-quality care.

AORN Governance

A 12-member Board of Directors, chosen from and elected by the membership, are responsible for the strategic vision and financial sustainability of AORN.

Members have the opportunity to serve on national committees that shape and influence the perioperative profession.

Learn more about voting and how to get involved.

Periop Life

Regardless of what nursing specialty you work in or who you’re interacting with, kindness and caring always shine through says AORN President, Elizabeth Pincus, MSN, MBA, RN, ACNS-BC, CNS-CP, CNOR. In this week’s Periop Life entry, Pincus shares five ways nurses can make their mark and leave a legacy.

The emphasis on self-care and burnout prevention after the pandemic has almost become white noise in nursing, but are we actually practicing these wellness strategies?

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