AORN Journal

The AORN Journal podcast highlights key articles and briefings from the most recent journal issue and the latest in perioperative nursing.

Safety First: Preventing Improperly Reprocessed Instruments 07/28/2026

Recently Hired Personnel Working the Night Shift 07/28/2026

Advocating for Perioperative Nurse Involvement in Professional Nursing Associations 07/28/2026

Professional Liability Risk for RNs and APRNs 07/28/2026

Delegating to LPNs and LVNs in the OR 07/28/2026

Guidelines in Practice: Local-Only Anesthesia 06/26/2026

Back to Basics 2.0: Air Quality as a Cornerstone of Sterile Technique 06/26/2026

Time to Contamination of Covered Sterile Tables 06/26/2026

Table Covering Materials and Methods 06/26/2026

Time to Contamination of Uncovered Instruments 06/26/2026

Optimal Conditions for Preparing Sterile Tables 06/26/2026

Guidelines in Practice: Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices 05/27/2026

Safety First: Mitigating Air Quality Issues During Specimen Handling 05/27/2026

Guideline First Look: Guideline for Integration of Artificial Intelligence 05/27/2026

Managing Counted Items That are Dropped 05/27/2026

Active Warming Methods 05/27/2026

Patient Temperature Monitoring 05/27/2026

Fire Safety Education and Simulation 05/27/2026

Guidelines in Practice: Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments 04/27/2026

Back to Basics 2.0: Medication Safety 04/27/2026

Guideline First Look: Guideline for Environmental Hygiene 04/27/2026

Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence 04/27/2026

Applications for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Technology 04/27/2026

Transitioning to the Novice Perioperative Nurse Educator Role 04/27/2026

Preventing Retained Surgical Items During Procedures With Multiple Sterile Fields 04/27/2026

Caring for Patients With Electronic Implanted Devices 03/26/2026

Self-disinfecting surface technologies 03/26/2026

Automated disinfectant dispenser verification 03/26/2026

Wearing masks during joint space injections 03/26/2026

Prefilled skin antiseptic preparation application times 03/26/2026