{"title":"SURGICAL COUNTING: A PERIOPERATIVE NURSE'S PERSPECTIVE.","authors":"Vicky Warwick, Brigid Gillespie","doi":"","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Australian College of Perioperative Nurses (ACORN) have developed a set of standards to guide clinical practice within the perioperative setting. The ACORN standard 'Management of accountable items used during surgery and procedures' \n(ACORN 2016) details a process for perioperative nurses to follow when undertaking a surgical count.</p>","PeriodicalId":89893,"journal":{"name":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","volume":"24 10","pages":"39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2017-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Australian nursing & midwifery journal","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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The Australian College of Perioperative Nurses (ACORN) have developed a set of standards to guide clinical practice within the perioperative setting. The ACORN standard 'Management of accountable items used during surgery and procedures'
(ACORN 2016) details a process for perioperative nurses to follow when undertaking a surgical count.