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Quick and easy access to evidence-based recommendations. Multiple views are available:
- Quick view—photos, illustrations, videos, and bulleted overviews
- Outline—a list of all recommendations with the ability to expand
- Full view—the entire text of each guideline with evidence cited
- Ambulatory supplements included for select guidelines
Illustrated, step-by-step guides for quick review:
- Positioning: includes assessment, physiological effects and best practices.
- Procedures: includes indications, prep, positioning, and workflow, with popup instrument images.
- Skin Prep: includes prep solution instructions for each part of the body.
- Anesthesia: includes information about different types of anesthesia.
- Medication: includes brief summaries of perioperative uses and implications of medications.
- Hand-Over Tools: includes customizable templates (by clinical speciality) to help you build hand-over tools that align with the type of procedure performed.
- Room Setup: includes images and brief descriptions of common room setups by specialty.
• Policy and procedure templates
• Competency verification tools
• Inservice PowerPoints
• Case studies
• For AORN members: AORN members at facilities subscribing to the eG+ can find and access AORN member webinars, tool kits, and Journal articles within eGuidelines+.
Access our library of ebooks including:
- Perioperative Care of the COVID-19 Patient
- Core Curriculum for the RNFA
- Guidelines and Tools for the Sterile Processing Team
- AORN Guidelines and FAQs for Autologous Tissue Management
- ASC Infection Prevention Policies and Procedures.
Need Assistance? We are happy to help! Please contact Your Librarian :
Michele Matucheski, MLIS, AHIP
Medical Librarian - Ascension Wisconsin
Phone (920) 223-0340
Email Michele.Matucheski@ascension.org
Available Monday - Friday
AORN Guidelines+ is made available throughout Ascension by the Nursing and Clinical Professional Development (CPD) Dept.
Ascension Library Services supports the professional use of this tool, but we don't "own" it. We have partnered with CPD to include it on the Library website. As such, Library Services can provide limited support for this tool.
If you have any questions or issues with access, please contact Ryan Woods, Sr Operations Support Specialist skoon@aorn.org. You can also contact AORN directly at cs@aorn.org or 1-800-755-2676.