AORN is the premier provider of per...

AORN is the premier provider of perioperative continuing education. To make secure that you are registering for an AORN end look for the AORN name and logo If you are unclear whether the circumstance is sponsored by AORN, call AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1

NURSING COURSE 101

The AORN Center for Perioperative Education's Perioperative Nursing Course 101 is currented in a scripted, modular format and contains posttest bibliographies, handouts, glossaries, required reading assignments, approveed videotapes, guidelines for preceptors, a final examination, and contact hours. Visual aids are provided forward CD-ROM. Topics include scrubbing, gowning, and gloving; skin preparation; positioning; sterilization and disinfection; and surgical draping. The course also includes a module for preceptors. For a pamphlet call AORN customer service. Not steady about purchasing the course? Register to preview it in the facilitator seminar. Registrations must be received couple weeks before the seminar date. Visit http://www.aorn.org/ education/periop101.htm for seminar dates and an order form.

AORN CONFERENCES

AORN pre-Congress

April 20 2002 Anaheim Marriott, Calif.

Pre-Congres education sessions are planned to provide participants with in-depth information forward critical perioperative topics. There will be brace all-day sessions and six half-day sessions. The all-day sessions will address minimally invasive surgery and to what degree to implement the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 contented for the six half-day sessions includes

* conscious sedation,

* root-cause analysis,

* consulting and entrepreneurial roles

* mentoring, and

* pair hands-on sessions related to midshaft fractures and lower extremity intermedullary nails (enrollment is limited).

49th annual AORN Congress

April 21-25 2002 Anaheim Convention Center Calif.

AORN's Congres moves an opportunity to network with colleagues, attend education sessions, learn about the latest surgical equipment and instruments, and view research and clinical improvement/innovation broadsides There will be more than 100 sessions to select from. Topics include

* leadership,

* management,

* clinical,

* professional development

* professional issues,

* dominion affairs/health policy, and

* recruitment and retention strategies.

Many sessions relate to patient safety and evidence-based practice.

RNFA Forum.

June 8-9 2002 Grand Hyatt inn Washington, DC.

This consequence is designed to provide state-of-the-art education sessions and an opportunity for RN first assistants (RNFAs) and perioperative RN in the RNFA practice arena to learn, network with colleagues, and discuss issues germane to the practice of the RNFA. In addition, the RN First Assistant Specialty Assembly will celebrate its 10-year anniversary.

Weekend Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI).

June 8-9 2002 Grand Hyatt inn Washington, DC.

The WINI program was perform the operations indicated ined by three informatics nurses who have been certified on the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) in nursing informatics. It go afters the content outline for the ANCC Nursing Informatics Certification Examination.

This program will allow attendees to examine fundamental note concepts of nursing informatics. There will be ample opportunity to network with faculty members and lords about nursing informatics issues. Learn about the challenges others face and the strategies they use to suited these challenges. Registration is limited to 52 participants.

AORN Federal Affairs conversation and Lobby Day 2002.

June 10-11 2002 Grand Hyatt public-house Washington, DC.

AORN sense of possible fulfilments to have members from as many of the 435 US Congressional districts in attendance as possible. The year 2002 may view serious Medicare reform and an opportunity to achieve enactment of HR 822 (ie, the Medicare Certified Registered nurture First Assistant Direct Reimbursement Act of 2001) In addition, the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services has not released the final mastery regarding prescriptive staffing in the OR, and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration guidelines forward smoke plume evacuation have not been released. Congres likely will grapple with the nursing shortage and other issues important to perioperative nursing. Registration is limited to 400 persons so register early.

Mastering the Skiffs III: The Language of Leadership.

June 26-29 2002 Westin Tabor Center Denver

This colloquy is a "must" for just discovered managers. It will address tools and skills leaders ne to be prosperous whether they have been in their part for 10 years or 10 minutes. Topics include

* thriving in chaos;

* pack planning;

* business plan writing;

* giving feedback, recognition, and reward; and

* marketing and image.

AORN Multispecialty Conference

generation 26-29, 2002, Hyatt Regency, St Louis.

The education ease included at this conference will relate to leadership/management; ambulatory care; informatics; foment educators; clinical nurse specialists; business, industry, and consulting; and rural/small hospitals.