AORN Journal

By Lindsay Fischer

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

Episode Date
Safety First: Preventing Surgical Illumination Thermal Injury
Sep 28, 2026
Communicating With a Family Member Who is a Nurse
Sep 28, 2026
Preventing Heel Pressure Injury During Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Procedures
Sep 28, 2026
Cleaning and Disinfecting Tourniquet Cuffs
Sep 28, 2026
Nickel Allergy Considerations
Sep 28, 2026
Guideline First Look: Surgical Specimen Management
Aug 26, 2026
Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Counts
Aug 26, 2026
Sharps Injury Protocols
Aug 26, 2026
Nonsterile Examination Gloves Tearing During Use
Aug 26, 2026
Point-of-Use Treatment of Instruments
Aug 26, 2026
Auditing the Time-Out Process
Aug 26, 2026
Safety First: Preventing Improperly Reprocessed Instruments
Jul 28, 2026
Recently Hired Personnel Working the Night Shift
Jul 28, 2026
Advocating for Perioperative Nurse Involvement in Professional Nursing Associations
Jul 28, 2026
Professional Liability Risk for RNs and APRNs
Jul 28, 2026
Delegating to LPNs and LVNs in the OR
Jul 28, 2026
Guidelines in Practice: Local-Only Anesthesia
Jun 26, 2026
Back to Basics 2.0: Air Quality as a Cornerstone of Sterile Technique
Jun 26, 2026
Time to Contamination of Covered Sterile Tables
Jun 26, 2026
Table Covering Materials and Methods
Jun 26, 2026
Time to Contamination of Uncovered Instruments
Jun 26, 2026
Optimal Conditions for Preparing Sterile Tables
Jun 26, 2026
Guidelines in Practice: Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices
May 27, 2026
Safety First: Mitigating Air Quality Issues During Specimen Handling
May 27, 2026
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Integration of Artificial Intelligence
May 27, 2026
Managing Counted Items That are Dropped
May 27, 2026
Active Warming Methods
May 27, 2026
Patient Temperature Monitoring
May 27, 2026
Fire Safety Education and Simulation
May 27, 2026
Guidelines in Practice: Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments
Apr 27, 2026
Back to Basics 2.0: Medication Safety
Apr 27, 2026
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Environmental Hygiene
Apr 27, 2026
Ethics of Using Artificial Intelligence
Apr 27, 2026
Applications for Artificial Intelligence–Enabled Technology
Apr 27, 2026
Transitioning to the Novice Perioperative Nurse Educator Role
Apr 27, 2026
Preventing Retained Surgical Items During Procedures With Multiple Sterile Fields
Apr 27, 2026
Caring for Patients With Electronic Implanted Devices
Mar 26, 2026
Self-disinfecting surface technologies
Mar 26, 2026
Automated disinfectant dispenser verification
Mar 26, 2026
Wearing masks during joint space injections
Mar 26, 2026
Prefilled skin antiseptic preparation application times
Mar 26, 2026
Allergic reactions to local anesthetics
Feb 27, 2026
Methemoglobinemia after local anesthetic administration
Feb 27, 2026
Phentolamine administration for vasoconstrictor-induced ischemia
Feb 27, 2026
Advocating for buffered lidocaine local anesthetic
Feb 27, 2026
Back to Basics 2.0: Patient Skin Antisepsis
Feb 27, 2026
Perioperative Risk Factors and Safety Strategies for Patients With Tattoos and Piercings
Feb 27, 2026
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Care of the Patient Receiving Local-Only Anesthesia
Jan 30, 2026
Requirements for tissue tracking versus perioperative nursing documentation
Jan 30, 2026
Decontamination methods for dropped cranial bone flaps
Jan 30, 2026
Storage recommendations for autologous tissue grafts
Jan 30, 2026
Routine microbial culturing of cranial bone flaps
Jan 30, 2026
Safety First: Enhancing Patient Care During Robotic-Assisted Surgery
Jan 30, 2026
Guidelines in Practice: Autologous Tissue Management
Jan 30, 2026
Ice water irrigation during endoscopy
Jan 06, 2026
Implementing borescope inspection of surgical instruments
Jan 06, 2026
Changing attire after working in the decontamination area
Jan 06, 2026
Reapplication of pretreatment product in the decontamination area
Jan 06, 2026
Guideline First Look: Guideline for the Safe Use of Surgical Energy Devices
Jan 06, 2026
Back to Basics 2.0: Surgical Attire
Jan 06, 2026
Clinical Issues: Natural rubber latex in a latex-safe environment
Nov 25, 2025
Clinical Issues: Types of reactions to latex
Nov 25, 2025
Clinical Issues: Considerations for return electrode placement
Nov 25, 2025
Clinical Issues: Electrosurgical return electrodes (Volume 122, Issue 6)
Nov 25, 2025
Safety First: Preventing Inadvertent Perioperative Hypothermia
Nov 25, 2025
Staffing interventional pulmonology procedures performed in the OR
Oct 30, 2025
Manually determining limb occlusion pressure
Oct 30, 2025
Reperfusion intervals with pneumatic tourniquet use
Oct 30, 2025
Estimating blood loss
Oct 30, 2025
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Care and Cleaning of Surgical Instruments
Oct 30, 2025
Back to Basics 2.0: Addressing Social Determinants of Health
Oct 30, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Pneumatic Tourniquet Safety
Oct 30, 2025
Isolation gown evaluation
Sep 29, 2025
Bringing stuffed toys into the OR
Sep 29, 2025
Surface area and prefilled skin antiseptic applicators
Sep 29, 2025
Hair management for cesarean delivery
Sep 29, 2025
Safety First: Preventing Lost Surgical Specimens
Sep 29, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Transmission-Based Precautions
Sep 29, 2025
Contraindications to lipid emulsion therapy
Aug 29, 2025
Responding to suspected local anesthetic systemic toxicity
Aug 29, 2025
Strategies to help prevent local anesthetic systemic toxicity
Aug 29, 2025
Preparing for a possible local anesthetic systemic toxicity event
Aug 29, 2025
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Autologous Tissue Management
Aug 29, 2025
Back to Basics 2.0: Determining Instrument Sterility
Aug 29, 2025
Establishing an OR downtime process
Jul 29, 2025
Using sterile towels to adjust surgical loupes
Jul 29, 2025
Bringing personal bags into the OR
Jul 29, 2025
Sterility of packaged sterile items dropped onto the floor
Jul 29, 2025
Safety First: Managing Medication Shortages
Jul 29, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Sharps Safety
Jul 29, 2025
Care of the patient taking a semaglutide medication
Jun 30, 2025
Black flecks found inside instrument sets after sterilization
Jun 30, 2025
Using spray deodorizer in the OR
Jun 30, 2025
Point-of-use treatment for ophthalmic instruments
Jun 30, 2025
Back to Basics 2.0: Specimen Management
Jun 30, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Patient Temperature Management
Jun 30, 2025
Unconfirmed malignant hyperthermia susceptibility
May 28, 2025
Low and ultralow insufflation pressures
May 28, 2025
Managing OR waste
May 28, 2025
Categorizing OR waste
May 28, 2025
Protecting Patients From Perioperative Pressure Injuries
May 28, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Sterilization Packaging Systems
May 28, 2025
Patients wearing continuous glucose monitoring devices
Apr 28, 2025
Communicating specimen identification
Apr 28, 2025
Sterile elastic exsanguination tourniquets
Apr 28, 2025
Wearing wireless earbuds in the perioperative setting
Apr 28, 2025
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Pneumatic Tourniquet Safety
Apr 28, 2025
Back to Basics 2.0: Team Communication
Apr 28, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Apr 28, 2025
Minimizing door openings for all procedures
Mar 28, 2025
Caring for a surgical patient with extrapulmonary tuberculosis
Mar 28, 2025
Developing an emerging infectious disease plan
Mar 28, 2025
Performing hand hygiene during a community "boil water" advisory
Mar 28, 2025
Guidelines in Practice: Sterilization
Mar 28, 2025
Safety First: Preventing Personnel Exposure to Antineoplastic Agents in the OR
Mar 28, 2025
Back to Basics 2.0: Waste Management
Mar 03, 2025
Evaluating and selecting devices with engineered sharps injury prevention features
Mar 03, 2025
Using multiple electrosurgical unit generators simultaneously
Mar 03, 2025
Guideline for Transmission-Based Precautions
Mar 03, 2025
Overcoming barriers to reporting sharps injuries
Mar 03, 2025
Patients wearing personal undergarments into the OR
Mar 03, 2025
Emergence, Transmission, and Containment of Candida auris in the Perioperative Setting
Jan 30, 2025
Guideline for Sharps Safety
Jan 30, 2025
The maximum number of personnel in the OR
Jan 30, 2025
Guideline for Patient Temperature Management
Jan 30, 2025
Scrubbed team members leaving the OR during fluoroscopy
Jan 30, 2025
Event reporting and a culture of safety
Jan 30, 2025
Opening the sterile back table and supplies and storing them in the central core
Jan 30, 2025
Supporting Ethical Competence in Perioperative Nursing
Jan 30, 2025
Short-cycle sterilization
Dec 30, 2024
Cooling instruments after immediate-use steam sterilization
Dec 30, 2024
Sterilization of three-dimensional printed devices
Dec 30, 2024
Guideline for Sterilization Packaging Systems
Dec 30, 2024
Back to Basics 2.0: Radiation Safety
Dec 30, 2024
Immediate-use steam sterilization and infection risk
Dec 30, 2024
Mitigating Hazards in the Perioperative Setting
Nov 26, 2024
Guideline for the Implementation of Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Nov 26, 2024
Caring for Patients With Pheochromocytomas in the Perioperative Setting
Nov 26, 2024
Fire extinguishers in the OR
Nov 26, 2024
Preoperative patient warming
Nov 26, 2024
Forced-air warming and surgical site infection
Nov 26, 2024
Passive insulation for treating hypothermia
Nov 26, 2024
Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery for Lumbar Decompression or Disc Herniation
Oct 29, 2024
Reducing the perioperative carbon footprint
Oct 29, 2024
Guideline for Sterilization
Oct 29, 2024
Perioperative Care of the Transgender and Gender-Diverse
Oct 29, 2024
Patients wearing contact lenses during a procedure
Oct 29, 2024
Using augmented reality technology in the OR
Oct 29, 2024
Exsanguination before tourniquet use
Oct 29, 2024
Oral health and postoperative infective complications
Sep 26, 2024
Emergency Preparedness in Perioperative Services
Sep 26, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: Sterile Technique
Sep 26, 2024
Facial hair length
Sep 26, 2024
Preoperative dental treatment
Sep 26, 2024
Using multidose medication vials in the OR
Sep 26, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: Surgical Attire
Aug 28, 2024
Navigating Accountable Conversations in Health Care: Balancing Power Dynamics
Aug 28, 2024
Life support certification requirements for perioperative RNs
Aug 28, 2024
Selecting nonsterile sharps disposal containers
Aug 28, 2024
Fire and Alarm Safety
Aug 28, 2024
Walking patients to the OR
Aug 28, 2024
Using crisis checklists in the perioperative environment
Aug 28, 2024
Pediatric human trafficking screenings
Jul 29, 2024
Reporting suspected child abuse
Jul 29, 2024
Pediatric suicide screenings
Jul 29, 2024
Using Debriefing to Address Disruptive Behaviors and Improve Clinician Well-Being
Jul 29, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: Safe Patient Handling and Movement
Jul 29, 2024
Performing a risk assessment
Jul 29, 2024
Using intermittent pneumatic compression devices on patients in lithotomy position
Jun 25, 2024
Off-label use of dental devices during direct laryngoscopy
Jun 25, 2024
Paper count sheets sterilized inside instrument sets
Jun 25, 2024
Cleaning surgical instruments after use in a procedure involving chemotherapeutic medications
Jun 25, 2024
Back to Basics 2.0: Perioperative Care of the Older Adult
Jun 25, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: Team Communication
Jun 25, 2024
Assessing Fire Risk
May 28, 2024
Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Pediatric Surgical Patients
May 28, 2024
Using Acupressure to Reduce Perioperative Anxiety in Children
May 28, 2024
Addressing Pediatric Perioperative Anxiety
May 28, 2024
Safety First: Caring for Patients in a Perioperative Magnetic Resonance Area
May 28, 2024
Improving Team Members' Attention During the OR Briefing or Time Out
May 28, 2024
Released Amputated Limbs
Apr 26, 2024
Promoting Health in the Workplace
Apr 26, 2024
Wearing Eyelash Extensions in the Perioperative Setting
Apr 26, 2024
Wearing Shoe Covers in the Perioperative Setting
Apr 26, 2024
Back to Basics 2.0: Safe Staffing, Competency Assessment, and Onboarding
Apr 26, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: A Safe Environment of Care
Apr 26, 2024
Nail coverings in the perioperative setting
Mar 27, 2024
Cleaning hybrid OR floor tracks
Mar 27, 2024
Laundry facility accreditation
Mar 27, 2024
Cell phone cleaning
Mar 27, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: Manual High-Level Disinfection
Mar 27, 2024
Safety First: Enhancing Health Literacy
Mar 27, 2024
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Sterile Technique
Mar 27, 2024
Sharing Perioperative Nursing Expertise Through Publication: A Guide for the Novice Author
Feb 26, 2024
Back to Basics 2.0: Sustainability in the Perioperative Practice Setting
Feb 26, 2024
Preventing accidental dislodgement of tubes, drains, and catheters
Feb 26, 2024
Surgical smoke safety during transurethral resection of the prostate procedures
Feb 26, 2024
The Revised National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Lifting Equation
Feb 26, 2024
Exoskeleton use in the OR
Feb 26, 2024
Retaining count sheets in the patient's medical record
Jan 26, 2024
Counting instruments during cavity closure
Jan 26, 2024
Surgical wound classification of procedures involving cancer removal
Jan 26, 2024
Placing an electrosurgical unit dispersive electrode over a tattoo
Jan 26, 2024
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Surgical Attire
Jan 26, 2024
Safety First: Preventing Local Anesthetic Systemic Toxicity After Long-Acting Local Anesthetics
Jan 26, 2024
Creating a Just Culture in the Perioperative Setting
Jan 26, 2024
Guidelines in Practice: Design and Maintenance of the Surgical Suite
Dec 27, 2023
Back to Basics 2.0: Sharps Safety
Dec 27, 2023
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Safe Patient Handling and Movement
Dec 27, 2023
Minimum efficiency reporting values, parameters, and testing for air filters...
Dec 27, 2023
Perioperative RN administration of antineoplastic agents
Dec 27, 2023
Prophylactic, therapeutic, and empiric use of antimicrobial agents
Dec 27, 2023
Off-label medication use and prescribing practices
Dec 27, 2023
Guidelines in Practice: Medication Safety
Nov 27, 2023
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Team Communication
Nov 27, 2023
Using indwelling urinary catheters during general surgery
Nov 27, 2023
Storing sterile and unsterile supplies together
Nov 27, 2023
Patients with iodine and chlorhexidine allergies
Nov 27, 2023
Head lice
Nov 27, 2023
Safety First: Managing "Hidden" Allergens in the Perioperative Setting
Nov 27, 2023
Guidelines in Practice: Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism
Oct 27, 2023
Back to Basics 2.0: Information Management
Oct 27, 2023
Guideline First Look: Guideline for a Safe Environment of Care
Oct 27, 2023
Staffing for local-only anesthesia procedures
Oct 27, 2023
Social media use in the OR
Oct 27, 2023
Sterility of rubber stoppers on medication vials
Oct 27, 2023
Securing sterile drapes with skin staples
Oct 27, 2023
Safety First Documenting Perioperative Care In The Electronic Health Record
Sep 29, 2023
Robotic Procedure Emergency Preparedness
Sep 29, 2023
Pregnant Personnel In The Magnetic Resonance Environment
Sep 29, 2023
Patients With Tattoos In The Magnetic Resonance Environment
Sep 29, 2023
Guidelines In Practice Minimally Invasive Surgery
Sep 29, 2023
Guideline First Look Guideline For Manual High - Level Disinfection
Sep 29, 2023
Communication During Robotic Procedures
Sep 29, 2023
Safety First Documenting Perioperative Care In The Electronic Health Record
Sep 28, 2023
Robotic Procedure Emergency Preparedness
Sep 28, 2023
Pregnant Personnel In The Magnetic Resonance Environment
Sep 28, 2023
Patients With Tattoos In The Magnetic Resonance Environment
Sep 28, 2023
Performing Clean And Contaminated Procedures Consecutively
Aug 31, 2023
Guidelines In Practice Processing Flexible Endoscopes
Aug 31, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency Disinfectant Verification And List Designation
Aug 31, 2023
Disinfectant Terminology
Aug 31, 2023
Chemical Disinfectant And Room Decontamination Device Classifications
Aug 31, 2023
Back To Basics 2.0 Moderate Sedation And Analgesia
Aug 31, 2023
Performing Clean And Contaminated Procedures Consecutively
Aug 29, 2023
Performing Clean And Contaminated Procedures Consecutively
Aug 29, 2023
Performing Clean And Contaminated Procedures Consecutively
Aug 29, 2023
Guidelines in Practice: Hand Hygiene
Jul 27, 2023
Safety First: Caring for Patients Undergoing Epidural Block Placement
Jul 27, 2023
Sterility of ultrasound transmission gel
Jul 27, 2023
Location of endoscopy storage cabinets
Jul 27, 2023
Local exhaust ventilation and surgical smoke safety
Jul 27, 2023
Respiratory protection against surgical smoke from liver tissue
Jul 27, 2023
Use Of Clean Versus Sterile Pneumatic Tourniquet Cuffs
Jun 27, 2023
Modifying Directional Air Pressure Settings
Jun 27, 2023
Heating, Ventilation, And Air - Conditioning Parameters
Jun 27, 2023
Guidelines In Practice Prevention Of Perioperative Pressure Injury
Jun 27, 2023
Back To Basics 2.0 Laser Safety
Jun 27, 2023
Active Shooter Crisis Preparedness
Jun 27, 2023
Guidelines in Practice: Positioning the Patient
May 30, 2023
Safety First: Understanding the Root Cause Analysis Process to Increase Safety Event Reporting
May 30, 2023
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Design and Maintenance of the Surgical Suite
May 30, 2023
Using built-in trocar filters for surgical smoke safety
May 30, 2023
Surgical smoke evacuation during Mohs surgery
May 30, 2023
Administering opioids to patients with obstructive sleep apnea
May 30, 2023
Personal protective equipment in the decontamination area
May 30, 2023
Back to Basics 2.0: Prevention of Perioperative Pressure Injury
Apr 27, 2023
Introduction to Antibiotic Stewardship Principles for the Perioperative Nurse
Apr 27, 2023
Second victim phenomenon after adverse events
Apr 27, 2023
Contraindications for use of intraoperative autologous red blood cell salvage
Apr 27, 2023
Indications for use of intraoperative autologous red blood cell salvage
Apr 27, 2023
Normalization of Deviance Is Contrary to the Principles of High Reliability
Mar 27, 2023
Safety First: Reducing the Risk of Perioperative Transmission of Candida auris
Mar 27, 2023
Epinephrine in orthopedic irrigation
Mar 27, 2023
Using instrument-marking tape
Mar 27, 2023
Reprocessing and reusing single-use devices
Mar 27, 2023
Flying insects in the OR
Mar 27, 2023
Back to Basics 2.0: Preventing Unintentionally Retained Surgical Items
Feb 24, 2023
Guideline First Look: Guideline for Medication Safety
Feb 24, 2023
Alternative insufflation gases
Feb 24, 2023
Hysteroscopic fluid deficit thresholds
Feb 24, 2023
Excess absorption of fluid distension media
Feb 24, 2023
Conversion to an open procedure
Feb 24, 2023
Developmentally Appropriate Care of Pediatric Patients in the Perioperative Setting
Jan 27, 2023
Safety First: Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Jan 27, 2023
Minimizing waterborne pathogens in perioperative areas
Jan 27, 2023
Water management program teams and perioperative services
Jan 27, 2023
Waterborne pathogen development and associated risks
Jan 27, 2023
Frequency of OR wall and ceiling cleaning
Jan 27, 2023
Janus kinase inhibitor therapy and venous thromboembolism risk factors
Dec 24, 2022
Identifying validated venous thromboembolism risk assessment tools
Dec 24, 2022
Communicating venous thromboembolism and bleeding risk after surgery
Dec 24, 2022
Timing of the preoperative venous thromboembolism risk assessment
Dec 24, 2022
Back to Basics 2.0: Sterile Technique
Dec 24, 2022
Guidelines in Practice: Patient Information Management
Dec 24, 2022
Documenting versus recording
Nov 28, 2022
Internet technology updates and fire alarms
Nov 28, 2022
Informed consent document validity
Nov 28, 2022
Surveying the AORN membership for research studies
Nov 28, 2022
Safety First: Reducing OR Traffic
Nov 28, 2022