AORN Journal
The AORN Journal podcast highlights key articles and briefings from the most recent journal issue and the latest in perioperative nursing.
Episodes
Safety First: Preventing Surgical Illumination Thermal Injury
Safety First: Preventing Surgical Illumination Thermal Injury (Volume 124, Issue 4)
Communicating With a Family Member Who is a Nurse
Clinical Issues: Communicating With a Family Member Who is a Nurse (Volume 124, Issue 4)
Preventing Heel Pressure Injury During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedures
Clinical Issues: Preventing Heel Pressure Injury During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedures (Volume 124, Issue 4)
Cleaning and Disinfecting Tourniquet Cuffs
Clinical Issues: Cleaning and Disinfecting Tourniquet Cuffs (Volume 124, Issue 4)
Nickel Allergy Considerations
Clinical Issues: Nickel Allergy Considerations (Volume 124, Issue 4)
Guideline First Look: Surgical Specimen Management
Guideline First Look: Surgical Specimen Management
Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Counts
Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Counts (Volume 124, Issue 3)
Sharps Injury Protocols
Clinical Issues: Sharps Injury Protocols (Volume 124, Issue 3)
Nonsterile Examination Gloves Tearing During Use
Clinical Issues: Nonsterile Examination Gloves Tearing During Use (Volume 124, Issue 3)
Point-of-Use Treatment of Instruments
Clinical Issues: Point-of-Use Treatment of Instruments (Volume 124, Issue 3)
Auditing the Time-Out Process
Clinical Issues: Auditing the Time-Out Process (Volume 124, Issue 3)
Safety First: Preventing Improperly Reprocessed Instruments
Safety First: Preventing Improperly Reprocessed Instruments (Volume 124, Issue 2)
Recently Hired Personnel Working the Night Shift
Clinical Issues: Recently Hired Personnel Working the Night Shift (Volume 124, Issue 2)
Advocating for Perioperative Nurse Involvement in Professional Nursing Associations
Clinical Issues: Advocating for Perioperative Nurse Involvement in Professional Nursing Associations (Volume 124, Issue 2)
Professional Liability Risk for RNs and APRNs
Clinical Issues: Professional Liability Risk for RNs and APRNs (Volume 124, Issue 2)
Delegating to LPNs and LVNs in the OR
Clinical Issues: Delegating to LPNs and LVNs in the OR (Volume 124, Issue 2)
Guidelines in Practice: Local-Only Anesthesia
Guidelines in Practice: Local-Only Anesthesia (Volume 124, Issue 1)
Back to Basics 2.0: Air Quality as a Cornerstone of Sterile Technique
Back to Basics 2.0: Air Quality as a Cornerstone of Sterile Technique (Volume 124, Issue 1)
Time to Contamination of Covered Sterile Tables
Clinical Issues: Time to Contamination of Covered Sterile Tables (Volume 124, Issue 1)
Table Covering Materials and Methods
Clinical Issues: Table Covering Materials and Methods (Volume 124, Issue 1)
Time to Contamination of Uncovered Instruments
Clinical Issues: Time to Contamination of Uncovered Instruments (Volume 124, Issue 1)
Optimal Conditions for Preparing Sterile Tables
Clinical Issues: Optimal Conditions for Preparing Sterile Tables (Volume 124, Issue 1)
Guidelines in Practice: Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices
Guidelines in Practice: Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Safety First: Mitigating Air Quality Issues During Specimen Handling
Safety First: Mitigating Air Quality Issues During Specimen Handling (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Integration of Artificial Intelligence
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Integration of Artificial Intelligence (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Managing Counted Items That are Dropped
Clinical Issues: Managing Counted Items That are Dropped (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Active Warming Methods
Clinical Issues: Active Warming Methods (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Patient Temperature Monitoring
Clinical Issues: Patient Temperature Monitoring (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Fire Safety Education and Simulation
Clinical Issues: Fire Safety Education and Simulation (Volume 123, Issue 6)
Guidelines in Practice: Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments
Guidelines in Practice: Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Back to Basics 2.0: Medication Safety
Back to Basics 2.0: Medication Safety (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Environmental Hygiene
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Environmental Hygiene (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence
Clinical Issues: Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Applications for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Technology
Clinical Issues: Applications for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Technology (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Transitioning to the Novice Perioperative Nurse Educator Role
Clinical Issues: Transitioning to the Novice Perioperative Nurse Educator Role (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Preventing Retained Surgical Items During Procedures With Multiple Sterile Fields
Clinical Issues: Preventing Retained Surgical Items During Procedures With Multiple Sterile Fields (Volume 123, Issue 5)
Caring for Patients With Electronic Implanted Devices
Safety First: Caring for Patients With Electronic Implanted Devices (Volume 123, Issue 4)
Self-disinfecting surface technologies
Clinical Issues: Self-disinfecting surface technologies (Volume 123, Issue 4)
Automated disinfectant dispenser verification
Clinical Issues: Automated disinfectant dispenser verification (Volume 123, Issue 4)
Wearing masks during joint space injections
Clinical Issues: Wearing masks during joint space injections (Volume 123, Issue 4)
Prefilled skin antiseptic preparation application times
Clinical Issues: Prefilled skin antiseptic preparation application times (Volume 123, Issue 4)
Allergic reactions to local anesthetics
Clinical Issues: Allergic reactions to local anesthetics (Volume 123, Issue 3)
Methemoglobinemia after local anesthetic administration
Clinical Issues: Methemoglobinemia after local anesthetic administration (Volume 123, Issue 3)
Phentolamine administration for vasoconstrictor-induced ischemia
Clinical Issues: Phentolamine administration for vasoconstrictor-induced ischemia (Volume 123, Issue 3)
Advocating for buffered lidocaine local anesthetic
Clinical Issues: Advocating for buffered lidocaine local anesthetic (Volume 123, Issue 3)
Back to Basics 2.0: Patient Skin Antisepsis
Back to Basics 2.0: Patient Skin Antisepsis (Volume 123, Issue 3)
Perioperative Risk Factors and Safety Strategies for Patients With Tattoos and Piercings
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
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Care of the Patient Receiving Local-Only Anesthesia (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Requirements for tissue tracking versus perioperative nursing documentation
Clinical Issues: Requirements for tissue tracking versus perioperative nursing documentation (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Decontamination methods for dropped cranial bone flaps
Clinical Issues: Decontamination methods for dropped cranial bone flaps (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Storage recommendations for autologous tissue grafts
Clinical Issues: Storage recommendations for autologous tissue grafts (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Routine microbial culturing of cranial bone flaps
Clinical Issues: Routine microbial culturing of cranial bone flaps (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Safety First: Enhancing Patient Care During Robotic-Assisted Surgery
Safety First: Enhancing Patient Care During Robotic-Assisted Surgery (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Guidelines in Practice: Autologous Tissue Management
Guidelines in Practice: Autologous Tissue Management (Volume 123, Issue 2)
Ice water irrigation during endoscopy
Clinical Issues: Ice water irrigation during endoscopy (Volume 123, Issue 1)
Implementing borescope inspection of surgical instruments
Clinical Issues: Implementing borescope inspection of surgical instruments (Volume 123, Issue 1)
Changing attire after working in the decontamination area
Clinical Issues: Changing attire after working in the decontamination area (Volume 123, Issue 1)
Reapplication of pretreatment product in the decontamination area
Clinical Issues: Reapplication of pretreatment product in the decontamination area (Volume 123, Issue 1)
Guideline First Look: Guideline for the Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices
Guideline First Look: Guideline for the Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices (Volume 123, Issue 1)
Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Attire
Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Attire (Volume 123, Issue 1)
Clinical Issues: Natural rubber latex in a latex-safe environment
Clinical Issues: Natural rubber latex in a latex-safe environment (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Clinical Issues: Types of reactions to latex
Clinical Issues: Types of reactions to latex (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Clinical Issues: Considerations for return electrode placement
Clinical Issues: Considerations for return electrode placement (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Clinical Issues: Electrosurgical return electrodes (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Clinical Issues: Electrosurgical return electrodes (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Safety First: Preventing Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia
Safety First: Preventing Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Staffing interventional pulmonology procedures performed in the OR
Clinical Issues: Staffing interventional pulmonology procedures performed in the OR (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Manually determining limb occlusion pressure
Clinical Issues: Manually determining limb occlusion pressure (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Reperfusion intervals with pneumatic tourniquet use
Clinical Issues: Reperfusion intervals with pneumatic tourniquet use (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Estimating blood loss
Clinical Issues: Estimating blood loss (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Back to Basics 2.0: Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Back to Basics 2.0: Addressing Social Determinants of Health (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Guidelines in Practice: Pneumatic Tourniquet Safety
Guidelines in Practice: Pneumatic Tourniquet Safety (Volume 122, Issue 5)
Isolation gown evaluation
Clinical Issues: Isolation gown evaluation (Volume 122, Issue 4)
Bringing stuffed toys into the OR
Clinical Issues: Bringing stuffed toys into the OR (Volume 122, Issue 4)
Surface area and prefilled skin antiseptic applicators
Clinical Issues: Surface area and prefilled skin antiseptic applicators (Volume 122, Issue 4)
Hair management for cesarean delivery
Clinical Issues: Hair management for cesarean delivery (Volume 122, Issue 4)
Safety First: Preventing Lost Surgical Specimens
Safety First: Preventing Lost Surgical Specimens (Volume 122, Issue 4)
Guidelines in Practice: Transmission-Based Precautions
Guidelines in Practice: Transmission-Based Precautions (Volume 122, Issue 4)
Contraindications to lipid emulsion therapy
Clinical Issues: Contraindications to lipid emulsion therapy (Volume 122, Issue 3)
Responding to suspected local anesthetic systemic toxicity
Clinical Issues: Responding to suspected local anesthetic systemic toxicity (Volume 122, Issue 3)
