AORN West Houston Chapter Symposium and Vendor Fair 2025

Ms. Murdock is a staff nurse at Memorial Hermann Hospital in the Texas Medical Center. She is presently serving as President Elect of the Association of periOperative Registered Nurses (AORN). She is an AORN Journal author and national conference speaker about DEI and trauma care. Darlene holds an MSN in Education from WGU, a BSN from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, B.A. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Murdock is recognized as a proven leader in the perioperative nursing profession, demonstrating an innovative and growth mindset. She is passionate about sharing her knowledge, committed to lifelong learning, and dedicated to providing safe, compassionate care to her patients.

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Peter is an independent consultant focused on evidenced-based solutions for preventing surgical infections and other perioperative issues. He is well-known within the perioperative nursing community and is a recognized national and international writer and speaker on surgical infection prevention. Peter has co-authored two textbook chapters on surgical infections and is often requested to collaborate on other peer-reviewed publications. In addition to writing, you can frequently find Peter presenting at national conferences, sharing best practices with colleagues, key opinion leaders, and the medical industry. Peter frequently collaborates with other infection prevention leaders to share the perioperative perspective to the topic, By using this evidence-based and collaborative approach, everyone gains a well-grounded and balanced road map to facilitate change.