Guidelines For Perioperative Practice 2020 Edition

"AORN is committed to promoting excellence in perioperative nursing practice, advancing the profession, and supporting the professional perioperative registered nurse (RN). AORN promotes safe care for patients undergoing operative and other invasive procedures by creating this collection of evidence-rated perioperative guidelines. The descriptive and comprehensive documents in this publication reflect the perioperative RN's scope of professional responsibility. The guidelines are intended to be achievable and represent what is believed to be an optimal level of patient care and workplace safety."--Publisher's description.

Resource added for the Surgical Technologist program 315121.

This concise reference provides definitions of scope of practice and recommended practices. the recommended practices section is very specific and includes information on aseptic practice, equipment and product safety, patient care, and sterilization and disinfection. It gives clear concise direction to promote optimal patient care. It also has a comprehensive section with a wide collection of sample policy and procedure documents, customizable to an individual facility to assist in compliance with accreditation standards.