ACORN Standards: ACORN - Perioperative Standards

The Standards support Australian perioperative nurses to deliver safe and high-quality evidence-based perioperative care. The Standards also guide Australian perioperative nurses in:

• reducing risks to perioperative patients and staff
• complying with relevant Australian national, jurisdictional and local accreditation processes as well as legislative and regulatory instruments and requirements
• reviewing and improving current perioperative practices.

Access to ACORN is only available through Cabinet (Cabrini Intranet).

Copy and paste the following URL into your search browser

URL: https://www.acorn.org.au/acornstandards

Logon details

User Name = Cabrini

Password = Cabrini183

Other Access points for ACORN are

• ACORN is also linked on Cabinet under the Library page via Cabinet.
• ACORN is listed under Medical Resources from the Quick Links Drop Down on Cabinet Main Page

Please note ACORN cannot be accessed remotely due to licence agreements with the Publisher.

The  ACORN Standards available online will supersede any previous versions of the ACORN Standards.

Please refer to the ACORN website for updated amendments or changes to the latest edition of the ACORN standards.