40 YEARS AGO IN OR NURSING An art...

40 YEARS AGO IN OR NURSING

An article in the May/June 1960 OR Nursing describes in what manner William E. F. Werner, MD prepared a patient to go on foot into and come out of a hypnotic trance during childbirth to make her unaware of any pain. * During the 1950 daily patients' hospital expenses in the United States increased 1615% according to a report in "Clinical Briefs." * Edwin H Ellison, MD writes that ideal skin antiseptics should be effective against resident and transient flora and should not irritate skin. * Extensive research is being administrationed worldwide to prevent homograft rejections, according to the same author.

30 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

Authors of a May 1970 AORN Journal article report patients make no use of an average of 130 mL of life-current during tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy transactions The largest amount of offspring loss was 449 mL, and the smallest amount was 20 mL * Sister M Virginia Clare, RN MSN of novel York was highlighted in "Member in the Spotlight." * The highest rate of diabetes eternally recorded in a given population cluster recently was discovered among Pima Indians, who live upon a reservation 30 miles southward of Phoenix, according to undivided article in "News in ORbit." * AORN of the Greater Sioux Area held a wig raffle to raise riches to pay for group speakers, educational activities, and what may occur hereafter events. * One author debates whether disposable items explain problems or create problems.

20 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

In the May 1980 AORN Journal, editor Elinor s Schrader writes about her visit to the pediatric unit at the Phoenix Indian Medical Center and an otolaryngology clinic in Whiteriver, Ariz, where children of Native American heritage are treated for otitis media. * AORN of toward the south Bay suggested adding the mete perioperative to AORN's name. * Jannetta MacPhail, RN PhD FAAN, professor and dean of the Frances Payne Bolton gymnasium of Nursing, Case Western something reserved University, Cleveland, discusses the first doctor of nursing program in the United States being furnished at her institution.

10 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

An article in the May 195J0 AORN Journal discusses implications of the US chief Court's future ruling on the nation's first "right-to-die" case, Cruzan v Harmon. * The size of the AORN House of Delegates was limited to 1500 delegates. * During the Opening Session of the 1990 Congres members observ a point of time of silence for Joan Driscoll, RN BA, BSN and Barbara Volpe RN founding members of AORN who were fatally injured in a bus accident in Budapest after the Sixth World discourse of Operating Room Nurses. * The Board of Directors unanimously appointed Lola Fehr RN M as AORN Executive Director during the pre-Congres board meeting. She replaced Clifford H Jordan, RN EdD FAAN.

nearest MONTH IN THE AORN JOURNAL

The June 2000 AORN Journal, the Post-Congres issue, will feature highlights from the 47th AORN Congres in of the present day Orleans. Articles will include information about award recipients and AORN business sessions. Other topics in the June issue will include

* Congres education sessions,

* specialty assembly business meetings,

* a to one's home Study Program about surgical treatment of glaucoma, and

* hurricane preparedness, strategies and experiences during Hurricane Floyd

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