“It is partnerships such as these that enable AORN to support its membership and the entire perioperative community with the tools they need to enhance their professional development and to provide excellence in patient care. Very simply put, we can’t do it without them.” Linda Groah RN, MSN, CNOR, FAAN AORN Executive Director

Prepare outside Nurse Practitioners and PAs for your OR

Do you have outside Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants with limited or no OR experience entering in your operating room? With the advent of 76 million baby boomers into the Medicare ranks by 2011, this trend will increase dramatically. The result? Breaking sterile fields, endangering the patient along with an unprecedented growth of ‘never events’ etc.

The National Institute of First Assisting, Inc. (NIFA^®) is the sole funder of AORN’s Management Connections and the exclusive AORN Management Resources Corporate Partner.  In this new role, it is our goal to help OR management facilitate and insure Safe Practices with programs to address this new influx of practitioners as well as all disciplines of first assistants in surgery.

Were you aware that NIFA sponsored all of the Management Educational Tracks at the 56th AORN Congress in Chicago? Below are a few of those presentations:

We hope that you will agree that the offering Introduction to the Surgical Suite is a good start toward their becoming properly acquainted with your OR suite.

You can view other NIFA offerings by clicking on the following links:

  Surgical Assistant Programs

  RNFA Program Brochure