ACORN endorsement

The following documents represent projects and publications that ACORN has been invited to contribute to through development, critical review or endorsement.

Requests for ACORN’s participation come from respected national and international bodies, including the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care (ACSQHC), the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS), education providers such as Elsevier, and global partners such as the World Health Organization (WHO). These collaborations reflect ACORN’s ongoing commitment to advancing perioperative nursing standards and promoting excellence in patient safety.

 

WHO Asia-Pacific collaboration: Safe surgical implant consensus documents

      

 

ACSQHC Clinical care standard: Emergency laparotomy

   

 

Collaborative (RACS-ACORN) research: Does the evidence support the use of operating room shoe covers to prevent surgical site infections? A scoping review

Link to scoping review

 

Perioperative nursing: An introduction 4th Edition textbook

 

ACSQHC Clinical care standard: Colonoscopy

   

 

Collaborative (RACS, ANZCA, ACORN) position paper: Reusable surgical gowns

Link to position paper

 

ACSQHC Clinical care standard: Antimicrobial stewardship

   

 

ANZ Surgical safety checklist 2009