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If your question or comment is about pricing, subscriptions, or accessing the ACORN Standards, please do not use the 'Standards' submission form at the bottom of this page. Instead, please contact the Administration team at this link or submit a 'General' inquiry.

Please do not submit any clinical or professional practice questions or comments to the administration/contact team. This will delay your response time due to redirection of your inquiry to the appropriate person to respond.

From this page, you can also report an issue with a Standards document, e.g. typographical error, numbering sequence out of order, reference omission, aged reference, glossary term requiring updating.

Before submitting your question please make sure you have done the following:

  1. accessed and checked the online ACORN Standards documents
  2. accessed and reviewed existing related:
  • local, state and national guidelines
  • state and national legislation
  • national safety and quality standards
  • national accreditation criteria
  • relevant Australian Standards
  • Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia guidance

Incomplete submissions will not be accepted and ACORN will not provide a response.

Submissions from persons without an individual or facility licenced subscription to the 16th  edition of the ACORN Standards for Perioperative Nursing in Australia (2020) will not be accepted and ACORN will not provide a response.