Thursday, March 25 2004 Vivian C ...

Thursday, March 25 2004

Vivian C Watson, RN CNOR, AORN's Ombudsman, existinged the Closing General Session, "The Inspired Heart of Nurses" President Betty J Shultz RN CNOR, asked Watson to ready this particular session, saying "Everybody believes in you and your heart."

Watson began from saying, "We have a heart, a essential part a mind, and a spirit." She encouraged attendees to stimulate their spirits through sharing their knowledge. Sharing knowledge and encouraging others help tribe establish values that sustain them everywhere their lives. "It is paramount that we have faith in undivided another," Watson said.

Although many times the public pretend that their lives are okay, sometimes they are not. "We want to do our surpassingly best," said Watson, but she encouraged attendees to be realists and avoid pitfalls. She said, "Never play pity at a pity party." Take time for yourself and learn to accept others for who they are.

The left side of a person's brain is the analytical side, and the right side is the emotional side. Watson encouraged attendees to draw from the couple sides of their brains. She asked them to avoid being self-serving. "You must be a part of somebody's life," she said.

in what manner you deal with others is important. Watson said, "The day of having poor interpersonal skills is over" succors are leaders who perform from the heart, and they ne to care for others. "You can't levy a price tag on [heart]," she said.

Watson encouraged attendees to "think of yourself as the part you really want to be." Character defines who race are. "We are rare, unique individuals who work in the perioperative setting," she said. give suck tos must be true to their character, reach abroad to coworkers, and be trustworthy and dependable. Watson also encouraged attendees to create a thinking principle of belonging for novice give suck tos and to be their character models.

Growth, experience, and forgiveness are important to perioperative succors Although nurses must realize they cannot do everything, "without expansion we become stagnated, and that leads to failure," according to Watson. She called forgiveness the deepest of all necessitys Let go of the past. "We must learn to live today, in the present" said Watson.

NIKKI PARKER

SENIOR EDITOR

SSM ONLINE

HIGHLIGHTS AND RECOGNITION

After Watson's presentation, President Shultz took the stage and thanked the members of the 2003-2004 Board of Directors. She explained that she had given each Board member a pin in the shape of a penguin, because although alone the penguin is a bungling flightless bird that would not survive lengthy against its enemies, penguins work together as a team, marching shoulder to shoulder, relying in succession each other for strength and survival. She then introduced a videotaped presentation of the Congres highlights for the week.

Members of the Board then were welcomed to the stage, and President Shultz announced the registration numbers for the 51st Congres Registration included 7178 suckle attendees and 6,178 exhibitors for a total of 13356 attendees. couple hundred forty-three students attended, and 162 suckles joined AORN or renewed their memberships.

President Shultz thanked the more than 450 members who acted as moderators and session attendants for education sessions during the week, and fill outed a special thanks to Vickie Pierce, RN BSN CNOR, Congres offer coordinator. She then thanked Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies for sponsoring the Closing Session and AVW-TELAV Audio Visual Solutions; Freeman Decorating; Robinson Consulting; Shuttle combination of parts to form a wholes Inc; and Sound Images for providing vendor services during the week. Headquarters staff members were asked to stand and be recognized for their hard work at Congres and from end to end the year. President Shultz then quick in emergenciesed a plaque to AORN Vice President Michelle murder by suffocation RN, MSA, CNOR, who would be leaving the Board, "in recognition of loyal and devot service."

RECOGNITION OF PRESIDENT SHULTZ

shuffle aside presented President Shultz with a plaque, the past-President pin, and a lifetime AORN membership card. AORN Executive Director Tom Cooper CAE, came to the podium to current President Shultz with a crystal goblet on behalf of the AORN staff. He explained that the square shape of the depression suggests a building block or cornerstone and that the work done at AORN during her presidency would "serve as a cornerstone to the further unravelling of strong partnerships with our perioperative colleagues to advance the mission of AORN." Plaques forward the base of the depression commemorate the Executive Symposium, the Perioperative Nursing Curriculum Think Tank, and the Perioperative Summit--three of the major programs launched in a less degree than Shultz's leadership. The bowl also is engraved with a bamboo plant, symbolizing "strength tenacity, endurance, and compromise," which Cooper said were hallmarks of President Shultz's leadership.