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Vangie Dennis, MSN, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAORN, FAAN

Perioperative Consultant
Perioperative Consultant LLC
Anderson, South Carolina, United States

Vangie Dennis is a consultant for Perioperative Consultants, LLC. Professional organizations include the Association of Operating Room Nurses (AORN), American Association for Nursing Leadership (AONL) Laser Institute of America, AORN Specialty Assemblies, and American Nurses Association. Vangie Dennis, MSN, RN, CNOR, CMLSO, FAORN, is a distinguished perioperative nurse leader, educator, and consultant with over 45 years of experience in surgical nursing and healthcare leadership. She is widely recognized for her expertise in laser safety, surgical technologies, and perioperative best practices.
Vangie is on the Board of Commission for the Board of Laser Safety, the chair for the National Certification on Lasers, past Nominating Committee Advisor for AORN National, Past President of the NW AORN Chapter, Past Treasurer for the Georgia Council of Nurses, and committee representative for the American National Standards Institute. She is the Past President for AORN National and served multiple terms on the National AORN Board of Directors.

She is a recipient named in Strathmore’s WHO’s WHO, the recipient of the 1996 Nursing Excellence Award from the American Society for Lasers in Medicine and Surgery, awarded the 2011 R. James Rockwell Jr. Educational Achievement Award, and the 2011 AORN Award for Outstanding Achievement in Perioperative Clinical Nursing Education. She is the recipient of the 2018 Distinguished Nurse of the Year for the Georgia March of Dimes and 2019 Manager of the year for OR Manager. Vangie was also awarded Perioperative nurse of the year for the Georgia Council of Perioperative Nurses and for the AORN Northwest Chapter. She is the Past President for National AORN 2022-2023 and is a member of Emory Alpha Epsilon Chapter of the Sigma Theta Tau International Honor Society of Nursing. Vangie is a fellow FAORN with the Association of periOperative Nurses and a Fellow with the American Academy of Nursing.


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