AORN is the premier provider of per...

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

NURSING COURSE 101

The AORN Center for Perioperative Education has disentangleed the Perioperative Nursing Course 101 This course is in a scripted, modular formal and contains posttest bibliographies, handouts, glossaries of metes required text reading assignments, commended 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 assured about purchasing the course? Register to preview it in the facilitator seminar. Registrations for the seminar must be received pair weeks before the seminar date.

AORN CONFERENCES

Advanced Technology, Cardiothorocic, Orthopedic, Pediatric, Neurosurgery RN First Assistant Conference

Oct 26-28 2000 lengthy Beach, Calif.

Perioperative Nursing: search for Knowledge.

Nov 10-11 2000 Philadelphia---Holiday Inn, Independence Mall, Philadelphia.

Perioperative Perspective: Focus for the Future

April 28-29 2001 Kalamazoo, Mich.

ADDITIONAL CONTACT HOURS

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

INDEPENDENT contemplation ACTIVITIES

Perioperative suckles can earn continuing education contact hours at purchasing videotapes and completing studious mood guide posttests. These tapes are from sessions at the 1998 meeting for consultation on Infectious Diseases.

AGE-SPECIFIC COMPETENCIES

AORN's Age-Specific Competencies series is available for independent studious mood 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 forward CD-ROM, including

* critical issues in the perioperative setting (new release),

* safety in the perioperative setting,

* of high temperature topics in supply system management, and

* heated topics for perioperative nurses.

There are between five and six education sessions in succession each CD-ROM. All sessions at handed on safety in the perioperative setting apply toward the four contact hours extremityed for the 10% professional liability credit available to AORN members. The CD-ROM activities are available by means of virtualFactory. For more information or to order, call (617) 6239171 x 13 or propel an e-mail to mark@virtualfactory.com.

VIDEOTAPES

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

* Infectious Disease Outbreaks in a Managed Care Environment,

* generally received Infection Control and Prevention, and

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

A number of education videotapes also are available between the walls of the AORN perioperative nursing videotape library. just discovered 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

* watch Surgery Perioperative Nursing Practice.

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

modern RELEASE

AORN is pleased to announce a recent videotape subscription series featuring best practices and "how to" gradations from experts. The continuing education series "Surgical Focus--Advancing OR Management" was bring outed in cooperation with the Stratos Institute for Healthcare Performance. Topics in the series include

* results analysis and management,

* managing costs

* benchmarking and best practices, and

* utilization management. For more information, call the Stratos Institute at (949) 388-2100

PRINT

Also available for contact hour application is the independent thought program based on AORN's 2000 Standards, commited Practices, and Guidelines. A minimum score of 80% is necessary to earn 25 contact hours. The deadline for submitting the posttest is March 31 2001 A recent print independent study, Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia, also is available for 15 contact hours. The contact hour recompense is included in the purchase price. (Remember, contact hours also may be obtained by the agency of Home Study Programs in the AORN Journal.)

EDUCATION MODULES

Contact hours for the following education module are available between the walls of June 30, 2001:

* Laser Safety,

* Appreciating Cultural Diversity,

* Care of the somewhat old Patient,

* Care of the Pediatric Patient,

* Implementing an termination Related Sterility Maintenance Policy, and

* Positioning the Surgical Patient. Contact hours for the following strange education modules are available between the walls of June 30, 2002.