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Full Schedule

  • Friday, March 31, 2023
  • AORN National Election Voting
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Cares: Kind Clinic Kit Assembly
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Early Badge and Bag Pick-Up
  • 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    First-time Attendee Lounge and Meet Up
  • 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    eChapter Hospitality Event
  • Saturday, April 1, 2023
  • AORN National Election Voting
  • 5:30 AM – 7:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration and Badge Pick-Up
  • 6:30 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1118 - Chapter Officer Summit - Cut Through Resistance: Secrets to Change without the Drama
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Exp Store
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Foundation
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Attendee Services (Expo App & Evaluation Supoort, MCI Housing Assistance & AORN Expo 2024 in Nashville)
  • 7:00 AM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    First-time Attendee Lounge
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1032 - Nursing's Time for Truth, Reckoning and Transformation
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1063 - Cultivating The Right Culture You Want At The ASC
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1074 - What Can I Do? Improving Perioperative Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse People
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1099 - Visions for the future: Growing the Role of the Perioperative LPN
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Networking Breakfast & Hot Topic Discussion: Grow Your Piece of the PIE: Personal Branding for Professional Success
  • 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibitor Registration
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1062 - An Education Evolution - Learning in the Palm of Your Hand.
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1072 - Good to the last drop! An innovative way to combat the blood shortage
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1122 - Medication Safety: Guideline Update 2024
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1018 - Updated AORN Guideline for Processing Flexible Endoscopes
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1120 - Providing Care for the Black/Latino Patient
  • 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3007 - Courageous Leadership: Nurse Leader Roles that Accelerate Excellence, Foster Change and Inspire High Performance.
  • 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1008 - ELPO App: innovation tool to prevent patient positioning injuries
  • 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1042 - TRAUMA: How to teach new RNs and Surgical Techs
  • 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1059 - A Journey to Self Publishing: Impacting Health Literacy
  • 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Leader Networking Lounge Break
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1000 - Implicit Bias: A Contributor to Health Disparities
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1003 - Brrr I Said It’s Cold In Here: Maintaining Perioperative Normothermia with Interprofessional Collaboration and Multifactorial Interventions
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1028 - Using Humor to Debunk Sacred Cows and Promote Evidence Based Practices
  • 10:15 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1105 - Collaboration and Connection across the AORN ASC teams
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3017 - Millennial Leadership in the OR: The Collaborative Workstyle
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3020 - Beyond Pizza: Strategies to sustain a positive work environment
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1006 - On the “Waze” to Eliminating Specimen Errors
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1007 - What is being an AORN committee member like? Members of the Clinical Nurse Practice Committee share their experiences
  • 10:50 AM – 11:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1033 - Stop the line: Preventing RSIs
  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1031 - Clinical Coordinators -- Increasing Support and Enhancing Engagement
  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1041 - Bleeding Disorders - Perioperative Implications
  • 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1049 - From Labor and Delivery to Cesarean Section: The Forgotten Operating Room
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Congress: First Forum
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1060 - Infection Prevention in the ASC Environment of Care
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3001 - 10 Reasons Perioperative Leaders Stay… and Why it Matters!
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3016 - Detours to the Destination; Creating Centers of Excellence for Diverse Populations
  • 12:05 PM – 12:35 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1038 - Overcoming Monotony: How to Take your OR Education From Snooze To Spark and prove it to your C-Suite!
  • 12:05 PM – 12:35 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1065 - DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF A TECHNOLOGICAL TOOL FOR POST-OPERATIVE SURVEILLANCE
  • 12:05 PM – 12:35 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1097 - Code Blue OR 6: Lessons Learned
  • 12:30 PM – 1:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    ASC Networking Meet Up
  • 12:35 PM – 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 12:45 PM – 1:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Networking Lunch & Hot Topic Discussion: Journey to Zero Retained Sponges
  • 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    ICORN Meeting
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1045 - Human Trafficking: A Healthcare Priority
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1048 - Sustaining Chapter Membership Engagement Through a Pandemic Crisis
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1051 - Building a Collaborative Culture
  • 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3003 - Ask. Listen. Learn. Lead: Improving Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse People
  • 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1037 - Beginning a Cardiovascular Service Line in the ASC/Surgical Hospital (Lessons Learned)
  • 2:45 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 3:15 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Opening Ceremony
  • 4:30 PM – 5:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1108 - Drumline Experience - Mentorship vs. Management
  • 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Kick Off Party
  • Sunday, April 2, 2023
  • AORN National Election Voting
  • 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    eChapter Member Meeting
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1080 - NURSE SCIENCE SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION: Navigating Perioperative Nursing Research in Clinical Settings
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1093 - LEADERSHIP SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION-Leading Through Unprecedented Times: Burnout and Moral Injury in the post-Covid Era
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1094 - STERILE PROCESS AND SUPPLY CHAIN SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION - Mitigating Infection Risk: What Does the Evidence Really Say About POU Instrument Treatment?
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1095 - ADVANCED PRACTICE NURSING SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING / EDUCATION - The APN SA Presents Trends and Pathways for the Advance Practice Nurse
  • 8:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1116 - AMBULATORY SURGERY SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION - Implementing a Daily Huddle in Your ASC
  • 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1017 - PREP-IT: Skin Antisepsis for Open Fractures
  • 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1068 - All for One, One for All, We're the Team that Takes the Call!
  • 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1070 - Giving your Robotics Program a Life of It’s Own
  • 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1083 - GI Prep for the OR Nurse
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1119 - Creating Lasting DEI Change
  • 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3006 - Cultivating a Healthy Workforce by Addressing Bullying & Incivility. Strategies for Perioperative Leaders.
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1001 - Fostering our Future Nurses through a Culture of Engagement
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1021 - Code Purple: A Multi-Modal Response to Nursing Stress and Wellness
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1053 - Skills Management for New Nurses in the OR: When the MyORCO Tool Becomes Essential!
  • 10:00 AM – 10:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1103 - Health Care Laser Hazards Relative to Application Risks
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1101 - RNFA SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION-The Role of the RNFA in Setting Your Robotics Program Up For Success
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1102 - CLINICAL NURSE EDUCATOR SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETINGS/EDUCATION-The Power of Connection: Perioperative Educator Challenges & Navigating them by Leveraging Networking
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1112 - PERIOPERATIVE NURSING PEDIATRICS SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION - EHR Optimization to Reduce Burnout and Improve Retention
  • 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1117 - PERIOPERATIVE NURSING INFORMATICS SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY MEETING/EDUCATION - EHR Optimization to Reduce Burnout and Improve Retention
  • 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Leader Networking Lounge Break
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3004 - From Innovation to Implementation: Adaptation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
  • 10:45 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3010 - Thriving Teams in the OR
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1002 - Travel Nursing: The New Wave of Nursing Incivility
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1036 - Sky's the Limit through Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): A Model for Perioperative Nursing Growth
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1047 - Utilizing Game Play To Increase Team Member Performance and Satisfaction
  • 11:00 AM – 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1079 - Innovative Education to Promote Teamwork During A Global Pandemic and Staffing Crisis
  • 11:45 AM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    NCCORN Meeting
  • 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Networking Lunch & Hot Topic Discussion: Surgical Site Antiseptics: How do you choose?
  • 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Congress: Candidates Meet & Greet
  • 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Speed Mentoring
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1111 - Award for Excellence Session & Awards Ceremony
  • 2:30 PM – 3:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1106 - Jerry G. Peers Lectureship: The Importance of a Promise
  • 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Expo Hall Opening Reception
  • 6:30 PM – 9:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    FCORN Meeting
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    1 - AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1040 - Transition To Practice: Using Periop 101 to Create a Perioperative Fellowship Program
  • 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    2 - First-time Attendee Lounge and Meet Up
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1081 - Just-In-Time In Situ Simulation Training as a Preparedness Measure for the Perioperative Emergencies
  • 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    3 - AORN Foundation
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1115 - Grabbing the Bull by the Horns: The Financial Impact of Surgical Site Infections in the United States
  • 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    4 - Attendee Services (Expo App & Evaluation Supoort, MCI Housing Assistance & AORN Expo 2024 in Nashville)
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1054 - The Effects of Regional Anesthesia On the Opioid Crisis
  • 7:00 AM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    5 - AORN Store
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    6 - Registration and Badge Pick-Up
  • 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    7 - Exhibitor Registration
  • Monday, April 3, 2023
  • 8501-23 - Pressure Injury Prevention Throughout the Continuum of Perioperative Patient Care
  • 8502-23 - Insights from an OR Efficiency Report
  • 8503-23 - Specimen Management: Reducing the Risk of Formalin Exposure
  • 8504-23 - Lighting the Way to Better Patient Outcomes
  • 8505-23 - What's New with Endoscope Processing
  • 8506-23 - The Impact Perioperative Nurses Have on Skin Preps
  • 8507-23 - Best Practices for Expanding Your Access to Minimally Invasive Surgery
  • 8508-23 - Powered Surgical Instruments: Patient and Caregiver Safety
  • 8509-23 - Reducing Orthopedic Surgical Site Infections Using Continuous Environmental Disinfection
  • 8510-23 - The Role of Contaminated Air in Surgical Site Infections
  • 8511-23 - Leading the Sustainability Call to Action
  • 8512-23 - The Ins and Outs of Counts: Advances in Surgical Count Technology
  • 8513-23 - Reducing OR-Associated Pressure Injuries Swimmingly through Fluid Immersion Simulation
  • 8514-23 - Normothermia: The New Norm
  • 8515-23 - Contamination and SSI Risks with Compounding in the OR: How to Keep Your Patients Safe
  • 8516-23 - Lateral Positioning: Improving Patient Outcomes with a New Standard of Care
  • 8517-23 - Best Practices for Safe Perioperative Patient Positioning
  • 8518-23 - Clear the Air®: The Time is Now
  • 8520-23 - Insufflation: Patients Under Pressure
  • 8521-23 - From Fluid to Solid: The Benefits of Solidifiers in Fluid Management
  • 8522-23 - Do HAPIs Make You Sad?: Preventing Perioperative Pressure Injuries
  • 8523-23 - Surgical Glove Changes for Improved Safety
  • 8524-23 - Biofilm is Everywhere!
  • 8525-23 - Is it Really Clean?: ATP Contamination Monitoring
  • 8526-23 - The Role of Textiles in Creating a Safer and Healthier Perioperative Environment
  • 8527-23 - Protecting the Air You Breathe
  • 8528-23 - When It Counts: Validating No Sponge Left Behind
  • 8529-23 - Helping Reduce the Risk of Surgical Site Infections: A Recipe for Success
  • 8530-23 - Active & Passive Hemostatic Agents Meet the Coagulation Cascade
  • 8531-23 - Innovations in Surgical Smoke Management
  • 8532-23 - Positioning Patients During Surgical Procedures
  • 8533-23 - Mitigating the Dangers of Surgical Smoke in Your OR
  • 8534-23 - Enhancing Safety in the OR, to Prevent Retained Surgical Sponges
  • 8535-23 - Tourniquet: Safety, Application & Post-Op Pain Reduction
  • 8536-23 - Personal Protective Attire: A Focus on Surgical Helmet Systems
  • 8537-23 - Strategies to Minimize Surgical Bleeding Using Hemostatic Agents
  • 8538-23 - Wound Closure: How Perioperative Nurses can Help Improve Patient Outcomes
  • AORN National Election Voting
  • 6:30 AM – 7:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    NYS Council Meeting
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Speed Mentoring
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Foundation
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Store
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Attendee Services (Expo App & Evaluation Supoort, MCI Housing Assistance & AORN Expo 2024 in Nashville)
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibitor Registration
  • 7:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration and Badge Pick-Up
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1121 - Reimagining the OR Workshop
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1009 - Reading and Applying Research Articles to Evidence-based Practice
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1019 - Surgical Smoke Evacuation Legislation: How to Get it Enacted and Implemented
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1020 - Mentoring=Engagement
  • 8:00 AM – 8:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1098 - The State of the Ambulatory Surgery Industry
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1025 - High Impact Educator Secrets: Creative Ways To Teach Hands On Learners
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1035 - The Effect of the Built Environment on OR Personnel and their Perception of Patients’ Surgical Experiences: A Phenomenological Comparative Study
  • 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1066 - Thoracic Robot Emergency Scenario Simulations: How to teach them
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Congress: First House of Delegates
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1027 - Medication Management Madness — Who Knew Medication Managment Could Be Fun!
  • 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3025 - The Great (Re) Engagement. Rediscovering your Passion, Purpose and Path Forward
  • 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1016 - Factors that engage perioperative nurses
  • 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1039 - Re-imagining the role of perioperative preceptors: The Practice.Ready Specialty.Focused Nurse Education Model
  • 9:35 AM – 10:05 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1086 - Reducing Pre-op Length of Stay (LOS) to Increase Hospital Surgical Capacity: An Innovative Strategy to Effectively Increase Access to Surgical Care
  • 10:00 AM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Expo Hall Open
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6001 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #1-#10)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6002 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #11-#20)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6003 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #21-#30)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6004 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #31-#40
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6005 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #41-#50)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6006 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #51-#60
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6007 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #61-#70)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6008 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #71-#80)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6009 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #81-#90)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6010 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #91-#100)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6011 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #101-#110)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6012 - Clinical Improvement/Innovation Poster Session (Posters #111-#118)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6013 - DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion) Practice Innovation (Posters #119-#125)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6014 - Design/Concept Poster Session (Posters #126-#137)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6015 - Evidence-Based Practice Poster Session (Posters #138-#147)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6016 - Evidence-Based Practice Poster Session (Posters #148-#159)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6017 - Research Poster Session (Posters #160-#167)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6018 - Research Poster Session (Posters #168-#175)
  • 10:05 AM – 3:55 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/6019 - Research Poster Session (Posters #176-#183)
  • 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Leader Networking Lounge Break
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    VR Simulation: Developing Role-Based Resuscitation Competencies in the OR
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1014 - Getting to Zero Harm: Your Role
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1061 - Building a Sustainable Sterile Processing Program
  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Positioning Hands-On Experience for Novice Nurses
  • 10:30 AM – 11:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Sterile Processing Live! Hands-On Competition to 100% Complete, Sterile, and On-Time Surgical Instruments
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3009 - A Force of Nature: Hurricane Ian, Preparation and Impact
  • 10:30 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3024 - Civility in the Workplace; An Update from the AORN/ASPAN/AANA Task Force
  • 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Fitness Session with Nurse Lulu
  • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1067 - Planning for Prion in th OR - Know Your P & Ps
  • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1069 - Empowering the horse to drink: using change management tools to successfully implement safety improvements in the OR
  • 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Positioning Hands-On Experience for Novice Nurses
  • 11:30 AM – 12:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Sterile Processing Live! Hands-On Competition to 100% Complete, Sterile, and On-Time Surgical Instruments
  • 11:45 AM – 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    Networking Lunch & Hot Topic Discussion: Empowering your teams through innovative care models: How to best leverage da Vinci robotic surgery for the patients you serve.
  • 12:00 PM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Fitness Session with Nurse Lulu
  • 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Puppy & Kitten Snuggles
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Positioning Hands-On Experience for Novice Nurses
  • 12:30 PM – 1:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Sterile Processing Live! Hands-On Competition to 100% Complete, Sterile, and On-Time Surgical Instruments
  • 1:00 PM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Fitness Session with Nurse Lulu
  • 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    VR Simulation: Developing Role-Based Resuscitation Competencies in the OR
  • 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1013 - Foundations for Total Safety: Employing a Learning System Approach for Preventing Perioperative Safety Events
  • 1:30 PM – 2:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1052 - The Dynamic Duo: A collaboration breaking down barriers and leading to remarkable quality improvement effectiveness between SPD and the OR
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Positioning Hands-On Experience for Novice Nurses
  • 1:30 PM – 2:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Sterile Processing Live! Hands-On Competition to 100% Complete, Sterile, and On-Time Surgical Instruments
  • 1:30 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Greater Houston Chapter Meeting
  • 2:00 PM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Fitness Session with Nurse Lulu
  • 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1012 - Water Quality: A Critical Look
  • 2:30 PM – 3:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1078 - Perioperative Pressure Injury Risk: A New Study and A New Guideline
  • 2:30 PM – 3:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Hands-On Skill Lab: Sterile Processing Live! Hands-On Competition to 100% Complete, Sterile, and On-Time Surgical Instruments
  • 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Poster Author Q&A
  • 3:00 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Fitness Session with Nurse Lulu
  • 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3005 - Managing a Block Schedule for Growth and Sustainability
  • 3:00 PM – 3:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3019 - Nurse Led OR Council Shaping Perioperative Success
  • 3:15 PM – 4:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    VR Simulation: Developing Role-Based Resuscitation Competencies in the OR
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1004 - Comparing Postoperative Rhabdomyolysis, Pressure Injury, and Fluid Immersion Simulation for Bariatric Patients: A Retrospective Chart Review
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1030 - Exploring and Strengthening Surgical Conscience
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1044 - Peri-Operative Pressure Injury Prevention...A Cut Above the Rest!
  • 4:00 PM – 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3022 - The Balancing Act: Fostering Work-Life Balance in New Perioperative Nurse Leaders
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Congress: Second Forum
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1088 - Drill your Skills: The Importance of Emergency Preparedness in Ambulatory Healthcare
  • 4:00 PM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3011 - Dreams and Teams Working Together for Safe Surgical Outcomes-A Successful Leadership Collaboration Model
  • 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1011 - A Sustainable Going Green OR
  • 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1050 - Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification Following Operating Room Air Exchange Failure
  • 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1055 - Reducing the Pressure: an evidence-based practice bundle approach to reducing pressure injuries in the pediatric peri-operative patient population.
  • 4:35 PM – 5:05 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3018 - Sterile Processing Internship: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1109 - The Journey Forward – Rediscovering Your Why with 4x Olympian
  • 8:00 PM – 11:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Foundation Party
  • Tuesday, April 4, 2023
  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Periop Community: Districts Open
  • 7:00 AM – 11:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Exhibitor Registration
  • 7:00 AM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Store
  • 7:00 AM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Attendee Services (Expo App & Evaluation Supoort, MCI Housing Assistance & AORN Expo 2024 in Nashville)
  • 7:00 AM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Registration and Badge Pick-Up
  • 7:30 AM – 5:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Reimagining the OR Workshop (Day 2)
  • 8:00 AM – 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1107 - AORN Foundation General Session: Overcome Any Adversity to Discover Your True Potential
  • 9:00 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    Farewell Fiesta Morning Snacks
  • 9:00 AM – 1:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Duck Derby
  • 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Expo Hall Open
  • 9:15 AM – 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    VR Simulation: Developing Role-Based Resuscitation Competencies in the OR
  • 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3014 - Succession Planning & Career Development: Growing Leaders from Within
  • 9:15 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3023 - Do you know the Cost?
  • 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1026 - Aerobiology 101: Rethinking Air Quality Management in the OR
  • 9:30 AM – 10:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1046 - What goes unreported goes unfixed: why aren’t we reporting our injuries?
  • 9:30 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1096 - Introduction to Perioperative Nursing: Immersion for Educators
  • 9:30 AM – 2:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Foundation
  • 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM East Coast USA Time
    Goat Yoga
  • 10:15 AM – 10:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    Leader Networking Lounge Break
  • 10:30 AM – 10:50 AM East Coast USA Time
    Goat Yoga
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1022 - Operating Room and Neuro=Endovascular Interventional Nursing: A Partnership of Coverage
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1056 - What Cleans What?
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3012 - Development of a PeriOperative Quality Dashboard
  • 10:30 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3015 - The Comeback: Returning with Clarity and Strength
  • 10:45 AM – 11:15 AM East Coast USA Time
    VR Simulation: Developing Role-Based Resuscitation Competencies in the OR
  • 10:45 AM – 11:30 AM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1104 - Nursing Shortage – World Crisis – What’s Next?
  • 11:15 AM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    Farewell Fiesta Snack Time
  • 11:30 AM – 11:50 AM East Coast USA Time
    Goat Yoga
  • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1015 - Skin in the Game: Key Strategies for Perioperative Pressure Injury Programs
  • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0000/1023 - Water: Why Don't my Surgical Instruments Like it?
  • 11:30 AM – 12:15 PM East Coast USA Time
    23CON0002/3002 - Shining the Light on Meaningful Recognition through the Lens of Authentic Leadership
  • 11:30 AM – 12:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    Poster Author Q&A
  • 12:30 PM – 12:50 PM East Coast USA Time
    Goat Yoga
  • 1:00 PM – 1:20 PM East Coast USA Time
    Goat Yoga
  • 1:00 PM – 1:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    VR Simulation: Developing Role-Based Resuscitation Competencies in the OR
  • 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    Reimagining the OR Workshop Gallery Walk
  • 2:00 PM – 3:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    AORN Congress: Second House of Delegates & Closing Ceremony
  • Wednesday, April 5, 2023
  • 23CON0000/4030 - Fork In The Road: Quality Improvement vs Research
  • 8:00 AM – 12:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    eChapter Board Meeting
  • Friday, April 7, 2023
  • 23CON0000/5000 - Implicit Bias: A Contributor to Health Disparities
  • 23CON0000/5001 - Fostering Nurses through a Culture of Engagement
  • 23CON0000/5002 - Travel Nursing: The New Wave of Nursing Incivility
  • 23CON0000/5003 - Brrr I Said It’s Cold In Here: Maintaining Perioperative Normothermia with Interprofessional Collaboration and Multifactorial Interventions
  • 23CON0000/5004 - Comparing Postoperative Rhabdomyolysis, Pressure Injury, and Fluid Immersion Simulation for Bariatric Patients: A Retrospective Chart Review
  • 23CON0000/5006 - On the “Waze” to Eliminating Specimen Errors
  • 23CON0000/5007 - What is being an AORN committee member like? Members of the Clinical Nurse Practice Committee share their experiences
  • 23CON0000/5008 - ELPO App: innovation tool to prevent patient positioning injuries
  • 23CON0000/5009 - Reading and Applying Research Articles to Evidence-based Practice
  • 23CON0000/5011 - A Sustainable Going Green OR
  • 23CON0000/5012 - Water Quality: A Critical Look
  • 23CON0000/5013 - Foundations for Total Safety: Employing a Learning System Approach for Preventing Perioperative Safety Events
  • 23CON0000/5014 - Getting to Zero Harm: Your Role
  • 23CON0000/5015 - Skin in the Game: Key Strategies for Perioperative Pressure Injury Programs
  • 23CON0000/5016 - Factors that engage perioperative nurses
  • 23CON0000/5017 - PREP-IT: Skin Antisepsis for Open Fractures
  • 23CON0000/5018 - Updated AORN Guideline for Processing Flexible Endoscopes
  • 23CON0000/5019 - Surgical Smoke Evacuation Legislation: How to Get it Enacted and Implemented
  • 23CON0000/5020 - Mentoring=Engagement
  • 23CON0000/5021 - Code Purple: A Multi-Modal Response to Nursing Stress and Wellness
  • 23CON0000/5022 - Operating Room and Neuro=Endovascular Interventional Nursing: A Partnership of Coverage
  • 23CON0000/5023 - Water: Why Don't my Surgical Instruments Like it?
  • 23CON0000/5025 - High Impact Educator Secrets: Creative Ways To Teach Hands On Learners
  • 23CON0000/5027 - Medication Management Madness — Who Knew Medication Managment Could Be Fun!
  • 23CON0000/5028 - Using Humor to Debunk Sacred Cows and Promote Evidence Based Practices
  • 23CON0000/5030 - Exploring and Strengthening Surgical Conscience
  • 23CON0000/5031 - Clinical Coordinators -- Increasing Support and Enhancing Engagement
  • 23CON0000/5032 - Nursing's Time for Truth, Reckoning and Transformation
  • 23CON0000/5033 - Stop the line: Preventing RSIs
  • 23CON0000/5035 - The Effect of the Built Environment on OR Personnel and their Perception of Patients’ Surgical Experiences: A Phenomenological Comparative Study
  • 23CON0000/5036 - Sky's the Limit through Evidence-Based Practice (EBP): A Model for Perioperative Nursing Growth
  • 23CON0000/5037 - Beginning a Cardiovascular Service Line in the ASC/Surgical Hospital (Lessons Learned)
  • 23CON0000/5038 - Overcoming Monotony: How to Take your OR Education From Snooze To Spark and prove it to your C-Suite!
  • 23CON0000/5039 - Re-imagining the role of perioperative preceptors: The Practice.Ready Specialty.Focused Nurse Education Model
  • 23CON0000/5040 - Transition To Practice: Using Periop 101 to Create a Perioperative Fellowship Program
  • 23CON0000/5041 - Bleeding Disorders - Perioperative Implications
  • 23CON0000/5042 - TRAUMA: How to teach new RNs and Surgical Techs
  • 23CON0000/5044 - Peri-Operative Pressure Injury Prevention...A Cut Above the Rest!
  • 23CON0000/5046 - What goes unreported goes unfixed: why aren’t we reporting our injuries?
  • 23CON0000/5047 - Utilizing Game Play To Increase Team Member Performance and Satisfaction
  • 23CON0000/5048 - Sustaining Chapter Membership Engagement Through a Pandemic Crisis
  • 23CON0000/5049 - From Labor and Delivery to Cesarean Section: The Forgotten Operating Room
  • 23CON0000/5050 - Surgical Site Infection Risk Stratification Following Operating Room Air Exchange Failure
  • 23CON0000/5051 - Building a Collaborative Culture
  • 23CON0000/5052 - The Dynamic Duo: A collaboration breaking down barriers and leading to remarkable quality improvement effectiveness between SPD and the OR
  • 23CON0000/5053 - Skills Management for New Nurses in the OR: When the MyORCO Tool Becomes Essential!
  • 23CON0000/5054 - The Effects of Regional Anesthesia On the Opioid Crisis
  • 23CON0000/5055 - Reducing the Pressure: an evidence-based practice bundle approach to reducing pressure injuries in the pediatric peri-operative patient population.
  • 23CON0000/5056 - What Cleans What?
  • 23CON0000/5059 - A Journey to Self Publishing: Impacting Health Literacy
  • 23CON0000/5060 - Infection Prevention in the ASC Environment of Care
  • 23CON0000/5061 - Building a Sustainable Sterile Processing Program
  • 23CON0000/5062 - An Education Evolution - Learning in the Palm of Your Hand.
  • 23CON0000/5063 - Cultivating The Right Culture You Want At The ASC
  • 23CON0000/5065 - DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF THE FEASIBILITY OF A TECHNOLOGICAL TOOL FOR POST-OPERATIVE SURVEILLANCE
  • 23CON0000/5066 - Thoracic Robot Emergency Scenario Simulations: How to teach them
  • 23CON0000/5067 - Planning for Prion in th OR - Know Your P & Ps
  • 23CON0000/5068 - All for One, One for All, We're the Team that Takes the Call!
  • 23CON0000/5069 - Empowering the horse to drink: using change management tools to successfully implement safety improvements in the OR
  • 23CON0000/5070 - Giving your Robotics Program a Life of It’s Own
  • 23CON0000/5072 - Good to the last drop! An innovative way to combat the blood shortage
  • 23CON0000/5074 - What Can I Do? Improving Perioperative Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse People
  • 23CON0000/5078 - Perioperative Pressure Injury Risk: A New Study and A New Guideline
  • 23CON0000/5079 - Innovative Education to Promote Teamwork During A Global Pandemic and Staffing Crisis
  • 23CON0000/5081 - Just-In-Time In Situ Simulation Training as a Preparedness Measure for the Perioperative Emergencies
  • 23CON0000/5083 - GI Prep for the OR Nurse
  • 23CON0000/5086 - Reducing Pre-op Length of Stay (LOS) to Increase Hospital Surgical Capacity: An Innovative Strategy to Effectively Increase Access to Surgical Care
  • 23CON0000/5088 - Drill your Skills: The Importance of Emergency Preparedness in Ambulatory Healthcare
  • 23CON0000/5096 - Introduction to Perioperative Nursing: Immersion for Educators
  • 23CON0000/5097 - Code Blue OR 6: Lessons Learned
  • 23CON0000/5098 - The State of the Ambulatory Surgery Industry
  • 23CON0000/5099 - Visions for the future: Growing the Role of the Perioperative LPN
  • 23CON0000/5103 - Health Care Laser Hazards Relative to Application Risks
  • 23CON0000/5104 - Nursing Shortage – World Crisis – What’s Next?
  • 23CON0000/5105 - Collaboration and Connection across the AORN ASC teams
  • 23CON0000/5111 - Award for Excellence Session & Awards Ceremony
  • 23CON0000/5115 - Grabbing the Bull by the Horns: The Financial Impact of Surgical Site Infections in the United States
  • 23CON0000/5119 - Creating Lasting DEI Change
  • 23CON0000/5120 - Providing Care for the Black/Latino Patient
  • 23CON0002/7001 - 10 Reasons Perioperative Leaders Stay… and Why it Matters!
  • 23CON0002/7002 - Shining the Light on Meaningful Recognition through the Lens of Authentic Leadership
  • 23CON0002/7003 - Ask. Listen. Learn. Lead: Improving Care for Transgender and Gender-diverse People
  • 23CON0002/7004 - From Innovation to Implementation: Adaptation of the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist
  • 23CON0002/7005 - Managing a Block Schedule for Growth and Sustainability
  • 23CON0002/7006 - Cultivating a Healthy Workforce by Addressing Bullying & Incivility. Strategies for Perioperative Leaders.
  • 23CON0002/7007 - Courageous Leadership: Nurse Leader Roles that Accelerate Excellence, Foster Change and Inspire High Performance.
  • 23CON0002/7009 - A Force of Nature: Hurricane Ian, Preparation and Impact
  • 23CON0002/7010 - Thriving Teams in the OR
  • 23CON0002/7011 - Dreams and Teams Working Together for Safe Surgical Outcomes-A Successful Leadership Collaboration Model
  • 23CON0002/7012 - Development of a PeriOperative Quality Dashboard
  • 23CON0002/7014 - Succession Planning & Career Development: Growing Leaders from Within
  • 23CON0002/7015 - The Comeback: Returning with Clarity and Strength
  • 23CON0002/7016 - Detours to the Destination; Creating Centers of Excellence for Diverse Populations
  • 23CON0002/7017 - Millennial Leadership in the OR: The Collaborative Workstyle
  • 23CON0002/7018 - Sterile Processing Internship: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • 23CON0002/7019 - Nurse Led OR Council Shaping Perioperative Success
  • 23CON0002/7020 - Beyond Pizza: Strategies to sustain a positive work environment
  • 23CON0002/7022 - The Balancing Act: Fostering Work-Life Balance in New Perioperative Nurse Leaders
  • 23CON0002/7023 - Do you know the Cost?
  • 23CON0002/7024 - Civility in the Workplace; An Update from the AORN/ASPAN/AANA Task Force
  • 23CON0002/7025 - The Great (Re) Engagement. Rediscovering your Passion, Purpose and Path Forward
  • Monday, May 1, 2023
  • 23CON0000/4000 - Nurse Resiliency: From New Grad to Expert
  • 23CON0000/4002 - Happy OR-Happy Outcome
  • 23CON0000/4003 - Take My Hand and Let's Go Beyond the Closed Doors!
  • 23CON0000/4004 - Developing a Standardized Post-op Dressing Guideline
  • 23CON0000/4006 - Mandatory Smoke Evacuation in NY - A Collaborative Journey to Success
  • 23CON0000/4007 - Supporting our Diverse Team's Voyage to a DEI Synergized Global Perioperative Practice
  • 23CON0000/4008 - Protecting your RN (Registered Nurse) License; Are you prepared?
  • 23CON0000/4009 - Back to Basics Campaign to Inspire Best Practices for Patient Safety
  • 23CON0000/4011 - Influencing Self-Efficacy Behaviors to Speak Up for Patient Safety: A Multidisciplinary Approach
  • 23CON0000/4014 - Leading the Generations: A Look at How to Lead the New Multigenerational Workforce
  • 23CON0000/4015 - Nursing and Infection Prevention Competency-Based Education Collaboration
  • 23CON0000/4016 - Using Malpractice Claims Data to Identify Risks in Nursing Practice
  • 23CON0000/4018 - Growing Your Own - Certified Surgical Technologist
  • 23CON0000/4021 - Case Study: Withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies intraoperatively from ECMO to organ harvest
  • 23CON0000/4022 - Development of Lateral Positioning Kit for Lateral Thoracic Surgery
  • 23CON0000/4023 - Perioperative Considerations for Gender-Diverse Youth and the Evolution of a Specialty Anesthesia Team In a Pediatric Hospital
  • 23CON0000/4024 - Ahead of the Curve: Vertebral Body Tethering for Adolescent Scoliosis Management
  • 23CON0000/4025 - Stack and Pack: Optimizing Surgical Efficiency with Fewer Resources
  • 23CON0000/4026 - Data, Dashboards and Dials, Oh My! Improve The Operating Room Through Inclusive Benchmarking
  • 23CON0000/4027 - Perioperative Educators United: How You Can Become Involved in Your Specialty Assembly
  • 23CON0000/4029 - Development and Implementation of a Surgical Navigation Center (SNC) to Optimize Underprivileged High Risk Surgical Patient Population
  • 23CON0000/5106 - Jerry G. Peers Lectureship: The Importance of a Promise
  • 23CON0000/5107 - AORN Foundation General Session: Overcome Any Adversity to Discover Your True Potential
  • 23CON0000/5108 - Drumline Experience - Mentorship vs. Management
  • 23CON0000/5109 - The Journey Forward – Rediscovering Your Why with 4x Olympian Chaunte’ Lowe”