December AORN Chicago Chapter Meeting
Prentice Women's Hospital Building
250 East Superior Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Wednesday, December 3, 2025 at 5:15pm CT - 7:00pm CT
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Topic
It's A Wonderful Life: How Nursing Care Has Impacted the World Around You
Credits Offered
This event offers 1.0 CE credit to attendees.
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Additional Information
First let me apologize for the Zoom link from November's meeting not working. We had several technical difficulties. But that didn't stop us from having an amazing outing!
This month's meeting will be back in our normal haunt! Prentice Conference Rm M, parking available in Lavin building. I placed this as an event requiring registration for those who want to attend virtually. As discussed previously, AORN wants us to do this to keep unauthorized individuals (hackers, scammers, etc.) from accessing our virtual links. When registering, please include your license number for the purposes of the CE credit. If we don't have it, we will assume you don't want it. Those who are attending in person need not register.
This meeting we have the honor and privilege of getting our CE credit from our illustrious past AORN national and Chicago president, Bill Duffy. The meeting will begin as usual at 515p and conclude at roughly 7p. Look forward to seeing you all.
Speakers
National & International Speaker in Healthcare
William J Duffy RN MJ (Health Law) CNOR FAAN, past Program Director for the Nursing and Healthcare Administration MSN at Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing at Loyola University of Chicago. Mr. Duffy received his BSN from Loyola University (Chicago) and his Masters of Jurisprudence in Health Law from Loyola’s School of Law. Bill’s background is in perioperative nursing. He spent the majority of his nursing career in the operating room serving as a staff nurse, manager, director and vice president of perioperative services. Mr. Duffy achieved his certification in perioperative nursing (CNOR) in 1988 and has been active in his professional association. Bill served on the Board of Directors of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). Mr. Duffy is a Past President of AORN (2004-2005). During his tenure he led the association’s initiative for National Time Out Day to eliminate wrong site surgery. He has spoken nationally and internationally on health law and leadership topics in addition to being an accomplished author. He has had his research on the Impact of Point of Care Documentation with an Electronic Medical Record on the Nurse Patient Interaction in Nursing Administration Quarterly. Bill has been interviewed by the Associated Press, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Chicago Tribune, NPR radio, Fox National News and CBS’s The Early Show. Bill is a Fellow in the American Academy of Nursing a recognition achieved by less than 1 percent of the nursing population. In 2010, Mr. Duffy was awarded AORN's highest honor, the Award for Excellence in Perioperative Nursing and he was recognized in 2006 by the Nursing Spectrum’s with the Award for Excellence in Advancing the Profession, He also received AORN's Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Management Award and Loyola University’s School of Nursing 2010 Distinguished Alumnae Award. Bill is a lifelong Chicagoan where he lives with his wife, Chic, and have three daughters. One of whom he is proud to say is now a nurse practitioner.