Education Courses for Individuals

This course provides perioperative nurses and other healthcare professionals who are new to orthopedics with important, applicable information about spine procedures.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional must know prior to being assigned to a total hip arthroplasty procedure.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional must know prior to being assigned to a total knee arthroplasty procedure.

This course provides standardized, evidence-based education of the workflow a perioperative professional should know prior to being assigned to a total shoulder arthroplasty procedure.

This course will help you bridge the knowledge gaps that exist by helping you accurately assess nursing practice competencies and target education to the individual’s specific areas of weakness.

Identify the essentials of cleaning the perioperative areas to provide a safe environment for both patients and healthcare workers.

Learn the most effective ways to optimize patient care practices through proper hand hygiene.

Increase understanding of the evidence-based practices needed for performing safe and effective high-level disinfection.

Identify specific actions to take in order to reduce the risk of a patient developing unplanned perioperative hypothermia.

Identify the characteristics of malignant hyperthermia (MH) and the guidelines for treatment.

Learn how to administrate moderate sedation/analgesia through all intraoperative phases of care.

Understand the physiological, cognitive/psychosocial, and sociological care of the older adult.

Understand how skin preparation of the surgical site helps reduce the potential for surgical site infections.

Understand testing, application, use, and cleaning of pneumatic tourniquets.

Understand proper patient positioning in order to provide optimal care in the surgical setting.

Identify how to protect both patients and healthcare workers during radiological procedures in the surgical setting.

Understand essential information on initial, intraoperative, and final counts of all items used in the surgical setting.

Identify and minimize the potential environmental hazards to patients and healthcare workers.

Develop and implement best practices to prevent sharps injuries and reduce bloodborne pathogen exposure.

The learner will have the knowledge to confidently implement the recommended practices from the AORN Guideline for Sterile Technique to maintain sterility and prevent contamination of the sterile field and sterile items during operative and other invasive procedures.