Education Courses for Individuals

Take the first step to recognize, address, and eradicate the prevalent, disruptive behaviors that could be undermining your workforce culture. Designed for frontline healthcare leaders, this self-study is designed to help you cultivate a professional, supportive and respectful workforce culture.

Discover how da Vinci 5 technology can transform your operations and improve care team experiences. Learn strategies for optimizing recruitment, growing your robotic surgery market share, and effectively conveying the program’s value to patients and physicians.

Train those new to sterile processing concepts and the department by using standardized education in processing of OR instruments and devices.

Perioperative and procedural teams who use lasers are invited to join AORN for a half-day, virtual live training to understand and implement evidence-based laser safety processes. This course meets annual training requirements and provides guidance to keep yourself and your patients safe.

The purpose of the Guidelines Assessment is to identify gaps in knowledge, clinical reasoning skills, and problem-solving skills related to current Guidelines for Perioperative Practice.

Learn to use the nursing process in documenting safe and effective patient care in the perioperative setting.

Learn about various methods of hemostasis, the use of sponges and drains, and ways to prevent retained surgical items (RSIs).

This 30-minute webinar – designed for busy ambulatory leaders – will help to identify common credentialing and peer review mistakes and share mitigation strategies and best practices.

What does it take to minimize turnover times and maximize caseload efficiency in bariatric surgical cases using flip rooms? At this live webinar you’ll gain strategies and insights that include: staffing considerations, collaboration between pre-op and PACU teams, and innovative scheduling practices that foster workflow efficiencies.

The goal of this course is to familiarize nurses and other health care personnel with the Perioperative Nursing Data Set (PNDS), a standardized nursing language that will support evidence-based perioperative nursing practice.

AORN’s Knowledge Assessment is an online evaluation designed to identify the knowledge gaps of experienced nurses and travelers.

This educational module presents an overview of information for health care personnel who may be involved in laser procedures and provides a foundation for the creation of facility-specific laser policies and procedures.

The evolution of supply chain demands in the surgical suite over the past four years has reshaped the way leaders think about purchasing processes and decisions. See how this diverse panel of perioperative leaders has changed the way they approach supply chain at their facilities.

Whether you’re making a business case for a capital purchase, advocating for a policy change, or managing everyday conversations, see what it takes to be an effective leader with strong negotiation skills.

The preceptor role is essential to ensuring your new team members are able to learn and assimilate effectively in the periop environment. Hear a panel of leaders share their expertise on how to engage, invigorate, and better prepare the preceptor to succeed in their vital role.

Glean insights from a live panel of three perioperative leaders as they share lessons learned and unexpected wins during their journey to safely staff their department and maximize retention.

Gen Z Who? Despite being often grouped with Millennials, Gen Z is a unique cohort with distinct values, communication preferences, and expectations regarding work. Gain key insights around integrating Gen Z into your team, adjusting your management tactics, and tactics to help you lead a multigenerational workforce.

There’s no doubt generational differences impact workplace dynamics, and as a leader these dynamics can be difficult to understand and manage. This session looks at each generation to understand their unique perspectives while providing actionable strategies to bridge gaps and enhance collaboration.

See how to foster a growth mindset culture in the OR, and how your efforts to do so can lead to overall improvements in staffing, technology adoption, and communication that is centered on trust.

As you think about the future state of your facility and department, succession planning for yourself and key managers on your team should be crossing your mind. See how this group of periop leaders have passionately pursued mentoring the next generation of emerging talent as they plan for what’s next.