Abdominal Skin Prep: A Skill-Builder & Refresher
Abdominal Skin Prep: A Skill-Builder & Refresher: Read and share this bite-sized overview focused on abdominal skin prep in AORN’s online magazine, The Stitch.
Thoracic Instrumentation
Learn about and view the various instruments used during thoracic surgery.
Cardiothoracic Instrumentation
Learn about and view the various instruments used during cardiothoracic surgery.
Pocket Guide: Starting Your Case
This handy pocket guide can help ensure you don’t miss a step when starting each case.
Defeated and Questioning
A new nurse seeks advice about not being sure they are cut out for the OR.
New Periop Nurses: Get Practical Advice, Tips & Clinical Insights
AORN introduces The Stitch: a free online magazine, featuring brief, practical, and interactive articles. The Stitch is designed to help new periop RNs address clinical, interpersonal, and motivational challenges.
Flashcards: Basic Surgical Instruments
Test your knowledge of basic surgical instruments.
Abdominal Skin Prep
Get a quick tips for performing an abdominal skin prep.
Bounced Around and Frustrated
A new nurse seeks advice about the challenges of navigating through orientation.
One Thing Right
It is important to identify at least one thing a day that was positive. In a short amount of time, you will be amazed at the perioperative nurse you have become.
Crossword: Safe Patient Handling and Movement
Test your knowledge about safe patient handling and movement with this crossword puzzle.
A Message of Support: Learn All You Can
A message of support and advice for novice perioperative nurses: Always be open to learning new things.
Introducing The Stitch: Putting the Pieces Together for Novice Perioperative Nurses
We know that perioperative nursing is both tremendously challenging and extraordinarily rewarding. The goal of The Stitch is to be a community and resource to help address the challenges (clinical, interpersonal, and motivational) and to highlight the rewards.
A Message of Support: Take Care of Yourself
A message of support and advice for novice perioperative nurses: You’re doing great!
Honoring Patients as People
While your values and purpose may change over the years as your role changes, one constant remains: the patient is always at the center of what you do.
Steps to Prepare the OR Before Patient Arrival
This short infographic walks you through the steps to take to prepare the OR before the patient arrives, from finding the preference card to completing initial counts.
Building Trust With Your New Hire
At the foundation of any clinical relationship is trust: trust between clinicians and patients, trust among the interprofessional team members, and trust between a new hire and the preceptor.
Word Search: Preoperative Patient Skin Antisepsis
Find all the words related to preoperative patient skin antisepsis in this word search.
Learn From Your Mistakes: The Forgotten Suction Machine
Even with the best training, new and experienced nurses alike can forget a needed item.
In Scrubs & In Stitches: One Instrument, Multiple Names
They don't use the official names?! A humorous look at working in the OR and dealing with (and learning) the many different names surgeons call their instruments.