DENVER--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- As advocates for patient safety in the operating room, the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses, (AORN), announced support for Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell’s ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The state legislature will soon consider — and likely approve — a bill to expand the power of advanced practice nurses (APNs) to prescribe powerful pain medications. That bill, House ...

This week marks the celebration of Perioperative Nurses Week. The perioperative arena includes all the activity related to patients from the time surgery is scheduled until discharge is completed.

A new law in Pennsylvania will require ASCs and hospitals to have a circulating nurse in the OR during procedures using general anesthesia or deep sedation. The "Circulating Nurse Act," which passed ...