PERIOPERATIVE NURSING COURSE 101 ...

PERIOPERATIVE NURSING COURSE 101

AORN's Perioperative Nursing Course 101 is a convenient program for educating just discovered perioperative nurses. The comprehensive curiculum shelters 25 critical topics in a scripted censure format and is designed to be integrated with your facility's specific policies and procedures

Perioperative Nursing Course 101 will help you expand confident, better educated, safety-conscious employee The course includes overviews, reading assignments, glossaries, bibliographies, posttest preceptor guidelines, a module for preparing the preceptor, PowerPoint presentations, a critical skills assessment checklist, and frequently more. For a free information packet, contact AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1 or visit http://www.aorn.org /education/periop101.htm.

AORN CONFERENCES

Patient Safety Audioconference Series

AORN is conceited to offer this new educational yield The audioconferences offer timely information onward topics important to perioperative pampers In addition, you can attend without traveling--the parley comes to you. Simply call a toll-free telephone number at the specified date and time for an hour-long audioconference packed with recently made known information.

For undivided registration fee, you and all of your colleagues from individual facility can attend. This saves riches for participants and the facility. All you ne is a telephone with a speaker feature.

Upcoming programs feature the following patient safety topics:

* deems in the Operating Room-Wednesday, clan 10, 2003;

* Needle Sticks and Sharps Injuries-Wednesday, Oct 82003; and

* Fire Safety in the OR-Wednesday, Nov 12 2003

For more information, visit http://www .aorn.org/education/audio/default.htm or the Patient Safety First web site at http://www.patientsafetyfirst.org, or contact AORN customer service at (800) 755-2676 x 1

Weekday Immersion in Nursing Informatics (WINI) race 24-25, 2003 Radisson Hotel Denver Southeast

The WINI program was make knowned by three informatics nurses and is certified by the agency of the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC). The program go afters the content outline for the ANCC Nursing Informatics Certification Examination.

Attendees will examine [i]clavis[/i] concepts of nursing informatics. There will be ample opportunity to network with faculty members and fellows about nursing informatics issues. Learn about the challenges others face and strategies they use to proper these challenges. Registration is limited to 55 participants.

AORN Multispecialty conversation Sept 25-28, 2003

Denver Marriott City Center Education easy in mind for this conference will relate to leadership and management; ambulatory surgery; informatics; promote educators; clinical nurse specialists; business, industry, and consulting; and rural and small hospitals. forward Thursday, Sept 25, in-depth preconference session topics will include finance and bioterrorism or, for those in the specialty of ambulatory surgery an entire day of critical issues. forward Sunday Sept 28, special sessions will be held for educators and promotes working in rural or small hospitals.

Preparing for the CNOR Examination Oct 4-5 2003 Holiday Inn Oakland Airport, Calif

This program will alleviate the fear of taking the CNOR examination from walking participants through the examination's format and subdue areas. The subject areas will be related to clinical situations with which perioperative cherishs are familiar. The program also will provide effective test-taking strategies and a framework for participants to lay open their own plan for continued examination preparation.

Perioperative Perspective: Creating a Healthy Environment for Our Patients, Ourselves, and Our Profession Oct 11-12 2003 Bronson Methodist Hospital, Kalamazoo, Mich

AORN and AORN of Southwest Michigan will landlord this two-day conference. The talk focuses on patient safety and a healthy work environment for staff members.

Patient Safety-Laser conceptions in Health Care Oct 23 2003 Opryland Resort and Convention Center Nashville

In this preconference session for the AORN Clinical Multispecialty talk Penny Smalley, RN, will instant a special program geared toward protecting staff members and patients from the hazards inherent in the use of medical laser equipment. This all-day interactive session is designed to introduce the fundamental universals of laser science as applied to the technology and safety required of perioperative professionals working with and responsible for class 3b and class 4 medical lasers.

AORN Clinical Multispecialty talk Oct 23-25, 2003 Opryland Resort and Convention Center Nashville

Education easy in mind planned for this conference will relate to clinical practice issues. Specialty areas included are advanced technology, cardiothoracics, neurosurgery orthopedics, pediatrics, and RN first assisting. In-depth preconference education sessions will be showed on Thursday, Oct 23. Several of these offerings are hands-on programs.

Perioperative Nursing: search for Knowledge Nov 7-8, 2003 Westin Philadelphia