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 fact look for the AORN name and logo If you are unclear whether the consequence 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 neared in a scripted, modular format and contains posttest bibliographies, handouts, glossaries, required reading assignments, commited videotapes, guidelines for preceptors, a final examination, and continuing education contact hours. Visual aids are provided onward 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 never-failing about purchasing the course? Register to preview it in the facilitator seminar. Registrations for the seminar must be received couple weeks before the seminar date.

AORN CONFERENCES

48th annual AORN Congress

March 11-15 2001 PreCongres March 10 2001

AORN's pre-Congres and Congres put forward an excellent opportunity to network with colleagues, attend valuable education sessions, learn about the latest surgical equipment and instruments, and view research and clinical innovation broadsides Several education sessions will be proffered addressing issues that affect all areas of practice, including

* advanced management,

* ambulatory,

* clinical,

* restraint affairs,

* informatics,

* legal/risk management,

* management,

* professional issues/development, and

* research.

Sessions that qualify for AORN Risk Management Credit will be identified in the Pre-Congres issue of the AORN Journal.

Detailed descriptions of education sessions can be raise on AORN's web site at http://www .aom.org/Congress, in the PreCongres AORN Journal, and in the Congres registration pamphlet If you have not received a archetype of the brochure, call AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1

Perioperative Perspective: Focus for the Future

April 28-29 2001 Kalamazoo, Mich.

AORN Goe to Washington.

June 22-26 2001 Marriott Metro Center Washington, DC

* RNFA Forum, June 22-24 2001 (166 contact hours)

* AORN Leadership parley June 24, 2001 (4.8 contact hours)

* AORN Lobby Day, June 25-26 2001 (121 contact hours)

Attend individual two, or all three programs. Each is designed to focus forward leadership skills, clinical practice, and the importance of member activism in public policy issues that shape perioperative nursing. For information or to register, contact AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1

ADDITIONAL CONTACT HOURS

The following contact hour opportunities may be used independently or to educate other perioperative staff members.

INDEPENDENT investigation ACTIVITIES

Perioperative supply with nourishments can earn continuing education contact hours through purchasing and viewing videotapes and completing application of mind guide posttests. These tapes are from sessions at the 1998 conversation on Infectious Diseases.

AGE-SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

AORN's Age-Specific Competencies series is available for independent cogitation The series includes

* The Geriatric Patient;

* Preschool School-age, and Adolescent Patients;

* The Premature Infant Patient; and

* The Neonate, Infant, and Toddler Patient.

CD-ROM

The following education themes are available upon CD-ROM, including

* critical issues in the perioperative setting,

* safety in the perioperative setting,

* excitable topics in supply system management, and

* oppressive topics for perioperative nurses,

There are between five and six education sessions upon each CD-ROM. All sessions at handed on safety in the perioperative setting apply toward the four contact hours penuryed for the 10% professional liability credit available to AORN members. The CD-ROM activities are available by the agency of virtualFactory. For more information or to order, call (617) 623-9171 x 13 or propel an e-mail to mark@virtualfactory.com.

VIDEOTAPES

A number of education videotapes are available [i]or[/i] part of to the other the AORN perioperative nursing videotape library. novel videotapes available for purchase include

* Malignant Hyperthermia;

* Preventing Disease Transmission in the Perioperative Setting;

* Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy: Principles and Practice for the Perioperative Nurse; and

* organ of vision Surgery Perioperative Nursing Practice.

Videotapes from the 1998 colloquy on Infectious Diseases also are available and include

* Infectious Disease Outbreaks in a Managed Care Environment,

* popular Infection Control and Prevention, and

* Challenges for Surgical Proces Improvement: OR issue Optimization Opportunities.

For a catalog or to order, call Cine-Med at (800) 633-0004

A videotape subscription series featuring best practices and "how to" stairs from experts also is available. The continuing education series "Surgical Focus--Advancing OR Management" was cause to growed in cooperation with the Stratos Institute for Healthcare Performance.