Several research hand-bills were d...

Several research hand-bills were displayed at the 2002 Congres providing attendees an opportunity to earn contact hours and giving placard presenters a chance to win cash awards. Twenty-one placards were displayed, and the authors of four hand-bills were presented awards of merit from the AORN Nursing Research Committee. Awards were underwritten by dint of AORN. Abstracts of the winning broadsides are featured here.

Preparation of Adolescents for Outpatient Surgery: A Comparison of Methods--Susan O'Conner-Von RN DNSc C Children's Hospital, St Paul. Despite the fact that tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy (T&A) are belonging to all surgical procedures, preparation needs of adolescents undergoing these surgeries have not been addressed in the literature. The design of this experimental study was to compare the effectiveness of pair methods of preparation for adolescents undergoing T&A: an Internet program designed on the investigator and the standard program propounded at the hospital before surgery The sample consisted of 66 adolescents, age 10 to 16 years of long date and their parents. Thirty-two were randomly assigned to the Internet program and 34 to the standard program. The effectiveness of systems was determined by anxiety scores, knowledge acquisition, postoperative pain intensity, and satisfaction with process of preparation. No statistical differences were lay the foundation of related to demographic characteristics. The Kruskal-Wallis proof was significant for knowledge acquisition, with the Internet assign places to receiving the highest scores. Adolescent and parent satisfaction also was significant with 61% of the Internet collection reporting being "very satisfied." The findings of this studious mood support the benefit of using technology when preparing adolescents for surgery and give nurses another method of preparation when caring for adolescents in an outpatient setting.

Managerial Factors Related to Employee Turnover in a Hospital Setting--Lynne Kurth RN MHA, St Mary's Healthcare Center Pierre, SD Gallup data indicate employee turnover is directly related to the employee's immediate manager. This reflection examined the relationships employee engagement and managerial emotional intelligence have forward employee turnover. All health care managers engageed at four different Catholic Health Initiative hospitals were self-assessed regarding 20 emotional intelligence competencies using the Emotional Intelligence sufficiency Inventory. Employee engagement was measured using the Gallup Q12 tool. Significant ensues (P < .05) were institute with 11 of 45 independent variables. Managerial horizontal of education and the number of years as a manager the one and the other were found to relate to turnover. Significant emotional intelligence competencies included trustworthiness, building chainss and social awareness. Employee engagement factors include the opportunity to do one's best, the belief that one's opinions calculate encouragement of development, supervisor's horizontal of caring, coworkers' commitment to quality, and the overall Q12 mean. Managers rating themselves high in trustworthiness had the highest employee turnover, which is exactly opposite of findings in other studies. It is postulated that chiefly managers assumed their role from within organizations, receiving little or no management training. While greatest in quantity receive some financial and productivity training, training in the softer issues (eg managing commonalty emotions) is not common. All health care managers, including those running ORs, will be able to diocese the effect they have onward employee satisfaction and turnover.

Influences onward Compliance with Standard Precautions and Occupational in all senses Reporting--Sonya Osborne, RN, BSN, CNOR, University of Canberra, Australia. Occupational exposing s of health care workers befall because of inconsistent compliance with standard precautions. Also, OR personnel mind to underreport exposures. The plan of this project was to lay open national estimates of compliance with standard precautions and occupational outlook reporting among OR nurses in Australia and to assess factors that influence compliance. A theoretical framework, the Health Belief gauge (HBM), was used to give meaning to variables, thus allowing logical conclusions to be drawn about which variables have the greatest influence upon compliance. Data were collected using a self-report questionnaire distributed to members of the Australian college edifice [i]or[/i] building of Operating Room Nurses. Univariate correlation analysis was applied to describe associations between compliance with specific standard precautions and occupational outlook reporting and each HBM erect Results of the study revealed compliance rates of 556% with double gloving, 591% with announcing sharps transfers, 719% with using a hands-free sharps pass technique, 819% with no needle recapping, 92% with wearing adequate notice protection, and 82.6% with reporting occupational prospects Although the HBM constructs of perception of risk and severity of a bloodborne infection and perception of benefits of compliance showed a certain influence on compliance, this research found that perception of barriers to compliance demonstrated a significant influence forward compliance with standard precautions and occupational in all senses reporting. If occupational exposures among this high-risk arrange of nurses are to be reduc these accrues must be considered and incorporated into perioperative infection dominion government programs aimed at improving compliance.