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Surgical Positioning Devices

What are people using for positioning devices within the OR for patient positioning?  Foam/Gel What...
Posted on 8/20/2010 6:58 AM by Shannan L. Reid, RN,CNOR | Comments (1)

Surgical Clusters

I am looking for any hospitals who use a Cluster structure within the OR and what your structure lo...
Posted on 8/20/2010 6:53 AM by Shannan L. Reid, RN,CNOR | Comments (2)

Sterile Water on the field

Has anyone heard about not having sterile water on your field for cleaning instruments---because it...
Posted on 8/11/2010 3:30 PM by Kelly A. Milligan, RN,CNOR | Comments (2)

Periop 101 Clinical Timeframe

Has anyone trained a new grad RN that is also a scrub tech in the periop program and if so, how lon...
Posted on 8/11/2010 3:26 PM by Gregory S. Aline, RN | Comments (2)

Self Breast Exams

I got a surprise last week when my MD told me I had a lump in my breast. Apparently, even thoug...
Posted on 8/8/2010 8:07 AM by Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR | Comments (0)

ACLS required in OR?

We are a community hospital who requires ACLS and wonder if that is the community standard?  What a...
Posted on 8/3/2010 3:17 PM by Carolyn J. Franz, RN,BSN, CNOR | Comments (5)

AORN Webinars

For those of you searching for our webinars, check out the webinars page on AORN.org.
Posted on 7/20/2010 2:40 PM by Ginger Makela-Riker | Comments (0)

AORN Member Can Now Join Unlimited Specialty Assemblies for Free

We're pleased to announce that as of July 1, 2010 AORN Members can now join unlimited Specialty A...
Posted on 7/6/2010 10:54 AM by Ginger Makela-Riker | Comments (0)

Storage of Clean Items

Please provide guidence for the storage of non-sterile items.  Presenly, my facility due to is size...
Posted on 7/2/2010 10:36 AM by David L Porter, RN,BSN | Comments (1)

Leadership

There are books and articles on leadership everywhere.  What are the behaviors of a good leader?  E...
Posted on 7/2/2010 3:18 AM by Joan M. Ridley, RN,CNOR | Comments (2)

2010 is near We have always done it this way

Another year is ending and this year I started my New Year at the University Of Birminghan Hospital...
Posted on 12/28/2009 12:51 PM by Chris D. Rosenthal, RN,MSN,CNOR | Comments (1)

Membership Databases

What do you guys think of iMIS?  Have you used other membership type DB and what were your prp/con ...
Posted on 10/6/2009 12:18 PM by Karen R. Kemerling | Comments (1)

What Are Blogs? How Are They Used on OR Nurse Link?

I've gotten several questions from members asking about blogs: what are they and how should we use ...
Posted on 10/15/2009 11:51 AM by Ginger Makela-Riker | Comments (0)

The Absolutely Most Important Thing

As a perioperative consultant, I have the opportunity to observe nurses caring for patients in ever...
Posted on 5/14/2010 9:21 PM by Sarah Anne Fairchild, MS, BSN, RN, CNOR | Comments (0)

FREE CE for AORN Members

AORN's tool kits are one of the best kept secrets for free CE .  Tool kits offer a wealth of resour...
Posted on 2/2/2010 12:35 PM by Brian Tepp | Comments (1)

What talents make a great perioperative educator?

What talents (the parts that can't be taught) are necessary for a great perioperative staff nurse t...
Posted on 1/3/2010 9:54 AM by Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR | Comments (3)

No Thing Left Behind

Have you looked at the recent AORN news email? Follow "Counts a Team approach" link to th...
Posted on 2/6/2010 10:36 AM by Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR | Comments (0)

What does a perioperative educator do?

This is my first experience with a Blog, so thank you to Ginger for helping me create a post. Depen...
Posted on 1/6/2010 6:48 PM by Rhonda K Dix, RN,BSN,CNOR | Comments (2)

No one wants to do the case

Today we have a patient that everyone is avoiding like the plague.  Or maybe H1N1.  Bad heart, elec...
Posted on 2/10/2010 6:12 AM by Randall L. Weeks, RN,BSN CNOR | Comments (1)

Appreciating your employees

Today I was tasked with writing a letter explaining why I appreciate my employees.  Like most direc...
Posted on 2/11/2010 7:35 AM by Randall L. Weeks, RN,BSN CNOR | Comments (2)

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