Refresh your knowledge on the safest approaches for maintaining sterile technique to reduce surgical site infection.

Perioperative nurses are astute patient advocates, and they know the importance of quality in the products and medical devices they use in patient care.

Simple changes every OR can make.

Make a fresh commitment as a team: understand the latest evidence-based practices and educational resources on RSI prevention. Learn about a new safety designation to promote your commitment to prevent RSIs.

Longtime AORN leader and master presenter Jay Bowers, BSN, RN, CNOR, TNCC talks to us about the importance of hearing from nurses at all levels in their career and advice on getting started.

UPDATED: Review AORN’s latest guideline revision to improve your team’s hand hygiene to improve patient and staff safety.

The rise of wrong site surgeries signals a call to action for every periop team member. Here are three ways you can ensure a proper safety check before surgery.

National Time Out Day draws attention to the need for everyone on the surgical team to pause before the procedure begins in order to make sure all are on the same page about the right patient, right site and right procedure. As we mark this milestone, we shift our focus from recognizing the importance of the surgical time out to ensuring that surgical teams are making adequate time for the time out.

Periop nurse and environmental health advocate shares how to get started.

A periop educator shares ways to cultivate a healthier mindset.

Deck shares a variety of ways to teach nursing students about the OR in her education session as part of the Virtual AORN Expo 2022.

Nurses have provided impactful testimony during legislative hearings that prompted several state assemblies to support – and pass – new laws mandating surgical smoke evacuation.

Create your own preceptor stars with these tips from the program creator of the Periop Preceptor Program at Baylor St. Luke’s Medical Center.

Industry should be stepping forward to help nurses, says Owens & Minor’s Alex Hodges. That’s why Owens & Minor upped their year-end match of AORN Foundation donations to $30,000 this year. Hodges shares why every donation counts.

There is an uptick in requests for non-pharmacologic solutions to patient discomfort and more research is coming out on how these alternative approaches are helping patients.

If your biases are unconscious, how do you recognize and overcome them? We spoke with, leadership and diversity coach Dima Ghawi for advice.

AORN Expo 2022 keynote speaker Alison Levine shares lessons from her expeditions.