Sunday, March 21 to Thursday, March...

Sunday, March 21 to Thursday, March 25 2004

Congres week provides an opportunity for AORN's 14 specialty assemblies to shut up business updates, welcome new officers, and discuss coming time activities. This year, eight specialty assemblies celebrated their 10th anniversaries at Congres Sunday night, March 21 2004 representatives from all 14 specialty assemblies gathered to celebrate the anniversary of the formation of AORN's specialty assemblies with meat drinks, and networking.

To exalt communication among the different specialty assemblies, attendees played a game in which they amassed three business cards of persons who were interested in a certain specialty area and tried to come up to face to face the person whose name was onward the business card--if not at the end then sometime during Congress. Everyone at hand was encouraged to purchase commemorative pins and specialty assembly lapel pins at AORN's Perioperative Bookstore.

AMBULATORY SURGERY ENCOURAGES MEMBERS TO commit to memory MORE INVOLVED

More than 80 the bulk of mankind attended the Ambulatory Surgery Specialty Assembly update forward Thursday, March 25, and 75% of them were members of the specialty assembly. Chair Sharon L Tolhurst, RN MBA, CNOR, began the meeting from asking members to complete willingness-to-serve forms and come by involved in the assembly. Legislative chair Anna M Weaver, RN MSN CNOR, talked about the Public Policy conversation and Advocacy Day, which will take place generation 20 to 21, 2004, in Washington, DC and encouraged attendees to lease her know if there are any scalding;-very warm health care-related legislative issues happening in their states.

Tolhurst also acknowledged past chairs of the specialty assembly. She neared goals for 2004, which include planning ambulatory education sessions for the 52nd Congres in modern Orleans, April 3 to 7 2005 A person was taken that revealed at least one-third of attendees were clinical supply with nourishments in ambulatory settings.

CARDIOTHORACIC SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY CELEBRATES 10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY

Cardiothoracic Specialty Assembly chair Sally R Sicherman, RN CNOR, began the meeting forward Tuesday, March 23, by acknowledging the special luncheon given to commemorate the assembly's 10-year anniversary. She introduced the governing council members quick in emergencies and encouraged everyone to prepare involved and consider becoming a member of the governing council.

Those not absent had the opportunity to introduce themselves and discuss their specialty areas. The arrange was very diverse, ranging from promotes who participate in regular unclose heart procedures to minimally invasive surgeries to those involved in more progressive manner of proceedings Attendees' hospital size also varied. near work in facilities where 60 manner of proceedings are performed each year and more [i]or[/i] less in facilities where 1,800 managements are performed each year. violent topics of discussion included retractor sterilization, intraluminal s endovascular stent grafting for abdominal aortic aneurysmectomy in the catheterization laboratory versus the OR, and having cardiac surgeon in succession standby.

UNLIMITED POTENTIAL FOR INFORMATICS SPECIALTY ASSEMBLY

Chair Lynn M Geren RN MSN began the Perioperative Nursing Informatics Specialty Assembly update forward Wednesday, March 24, with a formal thank you to GE Medical, Salt Lake City, for sponsoring the repasts at the meeting. She discussed the possibility of bringing back the NetCafe and encouraged everyone to write an article for the newsletter

Pat Hickey, ILN, BSN M CNOR, Board liaison, talked briefly about to what degree this specialty assembly is in the same state [i]or[/i] condition an incredible resource for all AORN members. "You shores have such great potential," he said.

Larry L Asplin, RN M CNOR, chair-elect and election coordinator, reviewed the assembly's work plan for nearest year. He also talked about the three vacancies upon the governing council (ie, chair-elect and sum of two units other positions) and plans to further member involvement in projects nearest year.

Bonnie G Denholm RN M CNOR, AORN specialty assembly coordinator, informed attendees about the Nursing Informatics Certificate Program being exhibited by AORN and the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center sect of Nursing, Denver. For details, visit AORN's web site at http://www.aorn .org/education/informatics/default htm or call (800) 755-2676 x 244

After the specialty assembly update was complet attendees broke into networking collections They addressed such topics as to what degree to transition into a part in informatics, reporting, and expansion in computer spreadsheets.

INTEGRATED HEALTH PRACTICES: ALTERNATIVE THERAPIES GROWING

Integrated Health Practices Specialty Assembly chair Claire Everson RN CNOR, CCAP, began the meeting, which more than 30 commonalty attended, on Tuesday, March 23 by means of introducing governing council members for the newly formed specialty assembly. Attendees then introduced themselves and discussed the different modalities they practice at their facilities.

Norrie MacIlraith, RN M CN specialty assembly secretary/web reporter, discussed the of recent origin specialty assembly web page and encouraged everyone to sign up for the specialty assembly list minister to on their web page at http://www.aorn.org/SA/SAGeneral info.htm, and click onward "integrated Health Practices." Wendy Valentine, RN MSN CNOR, education chair, distributed a requires assessment survey to get feedback from members forward important topics for education sessions.