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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.
Learn three (3) key considerations when building and launching an ambulatory surgery center (ASC).
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.
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.
The revised Guideline for Patient Positioning now recommends the use of a briefing process. See new recommendations for 2023.
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.
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.