Periop Community

Welcome to the AORN Perioperative Community

Find your people. Join a chapter, start a conversation on Periop Corner, or tap into the collective wisdom of perioperative professionals across specialties, states, and around the world.

AORN Chapters

With more than 200 Chapters across the U.S. and abroad — plus an e-Chapter for virtual collaboration — there’s a place for every perioperative nurse to connect and belong.

Joining a Chapter means stepping into a community that sharpens your practice, fuels your passion for nursing, and reminds you that you're never alone.

Within each Chapter, perioperative nurses support one another through shared experience, mentorship, and collaboration to elevate the standards that keep every patient safe--and every nurse supported.

Learn more about AORN Chapters and take the next step in growing your professional support system.

A Perioperative Community Built on Evidence, Experience, and Each Other

Explore more ways AORN makes it easy to connect, support, collaborate, and grow within our community of 41,000 perioperative professionals.

AORN’s Member Mentor Program is a members-only benefit designed to initiate career-long connections to help nurture professional and personal development—and success—for every participant.

AORN is seeking subject matter experts (SMEs) in a variety of perioperative subject areas to help develop educational publications, webinars, video and other learning tools for members.

AORN Specialty Assemblies are member-run, online groups offering members the opportunity to connect with nurses who share an interest in the same specialty.

AORN honors outstanding perioperative nurses through a comprehensive and well-recognized awards program, both for individuals and chapters.

As part of a member-driven and mission-driven organization, we depend on the commitment of our member volunteers to keep the growth and success of our Association strong.

AORN currently has 20 state councils that maintain standalone websites on Nursing Network, and others that do not maintain a presence on the web.

Any state can form a state council. A state council can also choose to be an affiliate of AORN within the formal AORN structure. Each affiliate state council must follow the mission and core values of AORN.