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Infection Prevention & Infection Prevention

Risk Management

Hot Topic! What's New with the AORN Guidelines and Sterile Technique? #1087 (1.00 CH)

1087 - Hot Topic! What's New with the AORN Guidelines and Sterile Technique? #1087 (1.00 CH)

Speaker(s)

• LS

  Lisa Spruce, DNP, RN, CNS-CP, CNOR, ACNS, ACNP, FAAN

  Director, Evidence-Based Perioperative Practice
  AORN
  Denver, Colorado
• JC

  Julie Cahn, DNP, RN, CNOR,CNS-CP

  Perioperative Practice Specialist
  AORN
  Denver, CO

Have you noticed the evidence-based AORN Guidelines for Perioperative Practice have a new look? This session will explore the changes, including how areas of the guidelines will be provided in a different view. The sterile technique guideline will be the example to demonstrate what has changed or is new in the guideline.

Corporate support provided by TIDI Products, LLC

Learning Objectives:

• Discuss changes and rationale for AORN's new guideline format and recommendation model.
• Identify two methods to reduce door opening.
• Differentiate between table covering for procedural delays and covering portions of sterile tables that are in use.