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Follow three key recruitment and retention strategies that not only help bridge the diversity gap among staff, but also help keep those new hires and existing staff engaged and committed to your organization.

The events of the past year have put inequities in healthcare under the microscope.

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

The revised Guideline for Patient Positioning now recommends the use of a briefing process. See new recommendations for 2023.

Learn three (3) key considerations when building and launching an ambulatory surgery center (ASC).

Do you have a sense of something new calling you? The resilience you built through COVID has readied you for new professional pathways to uncover with these career tips from Dr. Phyllis. And if you're an AORN member, schedule a career coaching session.

Incorrectly positioning a patient can result in serious injury to personnel or the patient. Ensuring you correctly position the patient every time is of the utmost importance. Since we are not positioning patients in every position, every day, it is hard to remember each of the small actions required for each position.

Join us on Saturday, Feb 11, from 10am – 12pm (MT) when the candidates for the AORN board of directors and the nominating committee, 2023-2024 term, will present their election speeches to the membership. Register to attend.

Bridging Generational Divides (Pt. 1): Listen to a conversation between AORN President Vangie Dennis and a Gen Z periop nurse about the hurdles of being the youngest member of an OR team and challenging her generation’s stereotypes. Listen to this new episode.

As JD Buchert, MSN, M.Ed., MS, RN, and colleague Kelly Murphy, BSN, RN, NE-BC, put the finishing touches on their upcoming presentation for AORN’s 70th annual conference on aromatherapy and other strategies to cut stress and boost wellness, they shared a few tips to target stress reduction.

New to the OR? Here are 3 tips to build practice skills and capitalize on unique professional growth opportunities happening now.

The recently revised Guideline for Hand Hygiene recommends that healthy, short, natural fingernails should be maintained.

A team from Southern Ocean Medical Center shares their success story.

Guidelines Editor-in-Chief Erin Kyle gives us her top tools and strategies to implement updates across eight guidelines that AORN just published.

Make sure your practices are current for eight updated guidelines that provide 70 new evidence-based practices for safe surgery in the 2023 edition of Guidelines for Perioperative Practice.

For many, New Year’s is synonymous with resolutions. We asked chapter leaders what tops their lists, and they were eager to share some fresh ideas for bringing together periop colleagues at the local level.

Newly revised Guideline for the Prevention of Pressure Injury recommends assessing skin perfusion by using long-wave infrared thermography. Learn why.

OR leaders set the stage for success when they give preceptors and orienting nurses the tools to become their best.