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Fall 2009

Volume 1, Issue 2

Education: FAQs in the News

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Center for Perioperative Education

AORN Journal CE Articles Can we use Journal articles as teaching opportunities with CE’s for staff? Answer: You may have the staff read the articles, answer questions, and complete the evaluations and send to AORN with the CE fee. Since the articles hold an AORN copyright, they may not be sent through an approval process for contact hours or taken by an approved provider or accredited provider to award contact hours. You may, however, use other Journal articles without CE attached to develop your own education program using the article as the teaching methodology, identifying the objectives, developing a test, etc. You could send that program through the AORN Approval Process or any accredited approver.

PERIOP 101I have medical students, interns and PAs coming into my OR on a routine basis. Most of them lack formal education that will prepare them for the perioperative environment. My staff members are constantly complaining about having to “watch out for them.” I would like to make this a better experience for both groups. What does AORN have to offer? Answer: AORN has a group of six modules that will prepare medical students, interns, and physician assistants for entry into the perioperative setting. These modules cover the following topics:

The Surgical Environment Aseptic Technique Safety in the Surgical Suite Surgical Instruments Scrubbing, Gowning and Gloving Hemostasis, Sponges and Drains

For Periop 101 customers, this “modified course” is available right now. Students will have access to the course on AORN’s Learning Management System for a six month period. By using this online standardized didactic education, the facility educator would just need to arrange for skills labs to demonstrate and allow for return demonstration of identified skills.

Contact periop101@aorn.org for more information.

In this issue . . .Congress ..... 2 More FAQs … 3Warm Fuzzies ….. 3Upcoming Events …….. 4

AORN EDUCATION NEWS Fall 2009Volume 1, Issue 2

Confidence-Based LearningHow does Confidence Based Learning (CBL) help learners retain information? Answer: CBL gives learners a series of questions about a particular topic. After answering a set of questions, they receive feedback detailing which answers were correct, which were incorrect, and explanations for both. Learners continue answering questions until they have mastered them all! Since feedback is given almost immediately, they don’t waste valuable time wondering how they’re doing.

Attention Periop 101 Administrators Have your students successfully passed the Periop 101 final exam? Give them the Periop 101 Achievement Pin For more information, call 800-755-2676, Ext. 1.

2010 Congress Education What’s New?

Quiz Bowl Registers 21 Teams – Sets Record!Quiz Bowl has reached a new level of competition with 21 teams signed up to compete. Get ready for some fun rivalry and learn the answers to some tough clinical questions.

New Clinical Poster Category Clinical Innovations in Older Adult Health

Congress Intensive Education WorkshopsAORN’s First International Summit This day and half program is particularly designed for the international attendee, and will cover the following topics from an international perspective; patient safety, bullying and harassment, surgical smoke, surgical scrubs and hand washing, sharps safety, quality, and collaboration.

New Digital Storytelling WorkshopNurses’ stories come to life with simple technology and digital media -- digitized content (text, graphics, audio, and video) that can be transmitted over internet or computer networks. Create digital stories to include personal reflection in nursing education and staff development programs, promote and illustrate safe clinical practice, creating Magnet™ stories for your department or facility, qualitative research projects, storyboards and much more!

Congress General Sessions Which General Sessions speaker keeps a copy of Sylvia Plath’s poem “The Surgeon at 2 a.m.” next to his desk and also has a collection of 800 vinyl records? Answer: Atul Gawande, MD, MPH

Dr. Gawande is a general and endocrine surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts and associate director of their Center for Surgery and Public Health. He is also an associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and an associate professor of surgery at Harvard Medical School. He has written extensively on medicine and public health for The New Yorker and Slate, pieces which have been collected in his books Complications and Better.(www.nytimes.com/2007/04/03/books/03atul.html)

Monday, March 15 • 8–9:30am

Safer Surgery: Reducing Complications and DisparitiesAtul Gawande, MD

AORN is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation

AORN is provider-approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number CEP 13019.

AORN Center for Perioperative Education general information contact: ksimkins@aorn.org

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Warm Fuzzies … Informatics Conference Thank you very much for sending these additional slides. Again, like I said in my evaluation, I had great time. The conference was really pertinent to my current job and it gave me a better understanding of what we need to do in our facility. Kudos to all the organizing committee, program coordinators, and instructors. You all did a great job! I'm really hoping that you will offer this conference again next year.-- Jade Anthony R. Alota, Maj, USAF, CNOR

You all did a fantastic job with this conference. It was very well organized and the content was very atimely. Thank you!--- Rose Seavey, RN, BS,MBA,CNOR,ACSP

Webinars:ASC Update: Impact of Health Reform Proposals and Medicare Rules Very informative, nice to know what to expect for the upcoming year and having access to the resources is always good knowledge, i.e. the surveyor guidelines.-- Bonnie Webber, RN, BSN, CNOR

ASC Infection Prevention Surveillance and Control The webinar was very informative. It was nice being able to attend right from my office!-- Nurse Alex

Sharps Safety – Preventing Sharps Injuries in the OR Very informative. I have new information to share with my surgical care committee meeting in October. Thank you for the opportunity.

AORN Education News

Education: FAQs con’tNursing CE Contact Hour ApprovalA speaker from Congress has agreed to give her presentation at our next chapter meeting. Since her program was approved for Congress, do we have to submit an application for contact hour approval?

Answer: Yes, it must be approved for contact hours. This is true for speakers from any of AORN’s events. AORN is accredited by ANCC as a Provider of Continuing Education for Nurses as well as an Approver. All of our events – face-to-face, online, Journal CE’s – are developed by nurse education planners and program coordinators through our Provider Unit. Thus, all programs provided by AORN belong to that particular AORN event and can’t be presented elsewhere. Speakers don’t automatically have possession of the contact hours for any presentation provided by AORN. Applications for contact hours from other entities can be submitted through our Approval Unit. For more information, visit the AORN CE Approval Process web page: www.aorn.org/Education/CEApprovalProcess/

Preparing for the CNOR® Exam Online

Money-Back Guarantee

Investing in your education is risk-free when you enroll in the Prep for CNOR course. If you take the CNOR exam within 6 months of purchasing the course and you don’t pass the exam, you may either: • Receive a refund of the cost of the course, or • Retake the course at no charge.

For more information, visit www.aorn.org/Education/ProfessionalDevelopment or contact AORN Customer Service at 800-755-2676, Ext. 1.

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Upcoming Events . . .

Face-to-Face FALL SPECIALTY CONFERENCE for Ambulatory and Educators – Orlando, FL AMBULATORY SURGERY CENTER ADMINISTRATIVE CERTIFICATE PROGRAM

-- In conjunction with the Fall Specialty ConferenceOrlando, FL November 1 – 2

CROSS COUNTRY EVENTSInfection Control in the ASCHartford - November 10, 2009Providence - November 11, 2009Boston - November 12, 2009I was a Staff Nurse Last Week and Now I am the Charge Nurse of the OR - Help! Long Island - November 3, 2009Manhattan - November 4, 2009White Plains - November 5, 2009The Joint Commission and National Patient Safety Goals in the ORPhiladelphia - December 1, 2009Baltimore - December 2, 2009Alexandria - December 3, 2009

57th ANNUAL CONGRESS -- Denver, CO March 13-18, 2010

Find out more about AORN education events: aorn.org/Education/EducationEvents/Conferences

Webinars Sterilization Issues in the Ambulatory Setting – October 13, 2009

Environmental Cleaning in the Perioperative Setting -- November 13, 2009

Respiratory Protection and Challenges for Perioperative Personnel: risk assessment, challenges and current best practices to protect healthcare workers from aerosolized contaminants. November 18, 2009

Legal Aspects of the EMR/EHR - December 9, 2009

FREE Quarterly Hot Topics 2010: Watch for upcoming webinars featuring expert educators and health-care providers speaking on emerging research and technology from the ambulatory and general perioperative arenas.

Find out more about AORN education webinars: aorn.org/Education/ProfessionalDevelopment/AORNWebinars

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