AORN Journal

Guideline First Look: Surgical Specimen Management

Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Counts (Volume 124, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Sharps Injury Protocols (Volume 124, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Nonsterile Examination Gloves Tearing During Use (Volume 124, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Point-of-Use Treatment of Instruments (Volume 124, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Auditing the Time-Out Process (Volume 124, Issue 3)

Safety First: Preventing Improperly Reprocessed Instruments (Volume 124, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Recently Hired Personnel Working the Night Shift (Volume 124, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Advocating for Perioperative Nurse Involvement in Professional Nursing Associations (Volume 124, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Professional Liability Risk for RNs and APRNs (Volume 124, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Delegating to LPNs and LVNs in the OR (Volume 124, Issue 2)

Guidelines in Practice: Local-Only Anesthesia (Volume 124, Issue 1)

Back to Basics 2.0: Air Quality as a Cornerstone of Sterile Technique (Volume 124, Issue 1)

Clinical Issues: Time to Contamination of Covered Sterile Tables (Volume 124, Issue 1)

Clinical Issues: Table Covering Materials and Methods (Volume 124, Issue 1)

Clinical Issues: Time to Contamination of Uncovered Instruments (Volume 124, Issue 1)

Clinical Issues: Optimal Conditions for Preparing Sterile Tables (Volume 124, Issue 1)

Guidelines in Practice: Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Safety First: Mitigating Air Quality Issues During Specimen Handling (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Guideline First Look: Guideline for Integration of Artificial Intelligence (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Clinical Issues: Managing Counted Items That are Dropped (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Clinical Issues: Active Warming Methods (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Clinical Issues: Patient Temperature Monitoring (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Clinical Issues: Fire Safety Education and Simulation (Volume 123, Issue 6)

Guidelines in Practice: Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Back to Basics 2.0: Medication Safety (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Guideline First Look: Guideline for Environmental Hygiene (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Clinical Issues: Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Clinical Issues: Applications for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Technology (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Clinical Issues: Transitioning to the Novice Perioperative Nurse Educator Role (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Clinical Issues: Preventing Retained Surgical Items During Procedures With Multiple Sterile Fields (Volume 123, Issue 5)

Safety First: Caring for Patients With Electronic Implanted Devices  (Volume 123, Issue 4)

Clinical Issues: Self-disinfecting surface technologies  (Volume 123, Issue 4)

Clinical Issues: Automated disinfectant dispenser verification  (Volume 123, Issue 4)

Clinical Issues: Wearing masks during joint space injections (Volume 123, Issue 4)

Clinical Issues: Prefilled skin antiseptic preparation application times  (Volume 123, Issue 4)

Clinical Issues: Allergic reactions to local anesthetics (Volume 123, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Methemoglobinemia after local anesthetic administration (Volume 123, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Phentolamine administration for vasoconstrictor-induced ischemia (Volume 123, Issue 3)

Clinical Issues: Advocating for buffered lidocaine local anesthetic (Volume 123, Issue 3)

Back to Basics 2.0: Patient Skin Antisepsis (Volume 123, Issue 3)

Perioperative Risk Factors and Safety Strategies for Patients With Tattoos and Piercings (Volume 123, Issue 3)

Guideline First Look: Guideline for Care of the Patient Receiving Local-Only Anesthesia (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Requirements for tissue tracking versus perioperative nursing documentation (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Decontamination methods for dropped cranial bone flaps (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Storage recommendations for autologous tissue grafts (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Routine microbial culturing of cranial bone flaps (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Safety First: Enhancing Patient Care During Robotic-Assisted Surgery (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Guidelines in Practice: Autologous Tissue Management (Volume 123, Issue 2)

Clinical Issues: Ice water irrigation during endoscopy (Volume 123, Issue 1)