Periop Today Newsletter

How periop staff can protect patients and themselves from exposure to hazardous medications.

Standardizing your skin prep solutions, protocols and tools, and auditing your staff's performance through the entire perioperative process decreases the microbial load on patient skin and reduces surgery-related infection.

Insider tips to help your facility perform some of today's most popular and profitable procedures in a booming service line.

Anyone who uses lasers is invited to join AORN for a half-day, virtual live training to understand and implement laser safety processes. Meets annual staff training requirements.

5 Steps to Improve Room Turnovers: Standardization, communication, and practice can help teams achieve safer, more efficient room readiness. Use these tried-and-true tips to get your turnovers on track.

From pressure injuries to smoke evacuation to wrong-site surgery, take our quiz to see how your facility measures up in a variety of safety areas.

With the right mindset, strategies and support, new ASC leaders can overcome any challenges that come their way. Read valuable insight and strategies from a nurse leader who’s been there.

A team focus on wellness in the perioperative setting looks different for every team. Ask your staff what they need and consider these proven strategies – such as roaming wellness – to affect and sustain workplace health.

Lifetime AORN member Felix Rivera BSN, RN, CNOR, RNFA, didn’t get discouraged when a surgical smoke bill failed to make progress in New Jersey back in 2019. Undeterred, his perseverance played an instrumental role in its eventual passage this year.

Learn how you can help your staff address stress and avoid burnout, what's referred to as "Second Victims" — periop professionals dealing with occupational emotional strain who may suffer in silence. Find out about an approach that focuses on peer support.

Although tight margins and staffing shortages present a rough outlook for the second half of 2023, one positive trend is the surge of Gen Z nurses. One nurse researcher shares tips to attract Gen Z nurses into your perioperative setting, while inspiring a stronger, more resilient multigenerational workforce.

The perioperative nursing shortage remains a challenge for nurse leaders, particularly because it is unlikely to end anytime soon. One possible solution: put the expertise of legacy nurses to work in solving the shortage.

Take a closer look at this crucial patient safety and potential liability issue through an outpatient lens. Discover successful strategies in medication storage and security for ASCs.

Reviews perioperative best practices and general recommendations for establishing, maintaining, and moving around a sterile field, as well as responding to potential contamination of one.

Career Coaching for AORN Members: Get help establishing your professional goals, making career choices, creating an academic roadmap, polishing interview techniques, and becoming skilled in marketing yourself.

Pediatric patients do not undergo procedures exclusively at pediatric specialty facilities. This article presents insights into the stages of pediatric cognitive and psychosocial development and special pediatric health care considerations. (2.2 CH)

AORN's Periop Today provides updates on news around the perioperative community.

Learn about the latest checklist tweaks that are bringing OR teams together for more consistent and effective safety checks. Find give tips to boost safety checklist use and team engagement.

Effective ways to refine your skin prep protocols. See why you should make skin prep a yearly competency to reduce SSIs.

ASCs: Learn how a strong governance program helps ASCs thrive in this fast-growing, complex environment.