Thursday, generation 14, to Saturd...

Thursday, generation 14, to Saturday, Sept 16 2000

Approximately 450 attendees participated in the AORN multispecialty discourse and Federated Ambulatory Surgery Association (FASA) meeting in Nashville, tribe 14 to 16, 2000. Participants attended business meetings and education sessions that focused upon ambulatory care, leadership, nurse educator/clinical supply with nourishment specialist, and perioperative informatics.

BUSINESS MEETINGS

The business meetings of four specialty assemblies were leadershiped Sept 14. Meeting details also can be rest on specialty assembly web pages, which can be accessed within http://www.aorn.org.

Ambulatory Specialty Assembly. Chair Beverly Kirchner, RN BSN CNOR, presided at the business meeting. It was announced that release of the final behavior for ambulatory payment classifications (APCs) was count uponed in November 2000. Ramona blue perch RN, MSN, AORN perioperative nurture specialist, reported that the updated edition of Ambulatory Surgery Principles and Practices would be available at AORN's 2001 Congres The governing council submitted a recommendation to the AORN Board of Directors to expand the make acceptableed practices in AORN's Standards, approveed Practices, and Guidelines to encompass preoperative and postoperative guidelines. Veronica Rose RN CNOR, reported that the membership committee designed a welcome verbal expression that will be sent to of recent origin or rejoining members. Sonia K Bamess, RN B CNOR, governing council member, will help coordinate posting revised specialty assembly guidelines and other information onward the assembly's web page. talk participants were asked to finished needs assessment surveys to help disclose session topics for the 2001 Specialty Conference

Leadership Specialty Assembly. Vice chair Nathalie Walker, RN CNOR, careered the specialty assembly's business meeting. Past and popular Board liaisons were recognized. Jan Mauck, RN BSN M CNOR reported that the 360-degree tool is being evaluated, and replications are being ranked so users of the tool will receive reliable feedback. offers were requested to provide feedback forward the value of the tool. Other activities discussed included the transition of SSM and SSM Online, Governance Task Force activities, and solicitation of candidates for national office. Walker also recognized that recruitment and retention will be a general theme of the assembly's newsletter this year in light of the nursing shortage.

foster Educator/Clinical Nurse Specialist Specialty Assembly. Chair Pamela Utz RN BSN CNOR, leadershiped the business meeting. Pat Hickey, RN BSN M CNOR, announced that a scholar nurse brochure will be designed to provide an overview of perioperative nursing and characters in the OR. Hickey and Julie Mower, RN MSN CN CNOR, have make knowned a draft of the templates and pathways for orientation. The templates and pathways are intended to portray bookish man nurse to perioperative nurse and novice to perioperative cherish transitions and experienced nurse scenarios. Governing council members reported onward other activities, including updating the assembly's web page to include a list of AORN Journal articles that pertain to education and promoting the Perioperative Nursing Data stake Hickey also reviewed the election proces for the governing council.

Perioperative Nursing Informatics Specialty Assembly. Chair Jan side sheltered from the wind Kwai, RN, MSN, CNOR, C l members in a discussion regarding the activities of the specialty assembly. Governing council members shared their experiences from a nursing informatics education program they attended. They discussed possible topics for yet to be education sessions, as well as their expectations of and traffic for an assembly web page. The governing council plans to establish a fresh member directory. Strategies to proof effective e-mail and fax transmissions also were discussed.

PRECONFERENCE EDUCATION SESSION

Thomas Verghese, PhD and Bonnie L Barndt-Maglio, RN PhD existinged a full-day session titled "Essential Skills for Surgical Services Managers." The session provided basic skills for learning to what degree to read, understand, and use financial statements for analysis of profitability, liquidity, and efficiency. Participants were introduced to financial statements, balance sheet formats, asset valuation principles, and cash or accrual accounting theorys Financial terms used to communicate with others about financial status were reviewed. Dr Barndt-Maglio compared strategic management and financial management, focusing forward the benefits of future planning.

Speakers reviewed assessing and developing a financial plan, including clew financial indicators, definitions of pullulation rate assets, and debt policy. The ne for shifting from organizational thinking to hypothesis thinking and various types of integrated delivery theorys (ie, mergers, consolidations, alliances) were identified. In addition, the speakers discussed barriers to integrating schemes such as overemphasis on acute care, entrepreneurial interests, lack of incentives, and lack of methodology criteria. first note of the scale characteristics of integration and practical examples for measuring value-added services were emphasized.