ACORN Standards Implementation Planner (ASIP) Tool Feedback

The ACORN Standards are vital in ensuring best practice is implemented to ensure safe, high-quality perioperative nursing care for every patient, on every occasion. The ACORN Standards Implementation Planner (ASIP) tool was developed to assist health service organisations, perioperative management, quality and safety departments and clinicians to implement the ACORN Standards in their organisations.

The ASIP tool is an editable tool that can be adjusted to the local health service environment and requirements, and is a resource to assist the perioperative team in implementing best practice. This tool can be used to implement new standards, for quality improvement projects, in response to a critical incident, as an education tool and for clinician professional development in the area of quality and safety.