30 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL ...

30 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

A visitor speaker at a St Louis chapter meeting calls for medical aid to be more accessible at highway accidents in unpopulated areas. He remind ofs that air transportation--complete with medical personnel onward board to care for victims en way to the hospital--would help abridge national traffic fatalities by 10% * A physician argues that the Precision Diet, a scientifically prepared liquid aliment free of pesticides and radioactive contaminants, possibly could increase the human life span to 150 years. * In another article, a physician organizing natural-disaster hospitals across the nation beseechs OR and emergency room cherishs to participate in preparedness training to such a degree they can provide life-saving care after hurricanes, downrushs and other catastrophes. * An article forward caring for patients undergoing expand heart surgery notes that patients who hide their anxiety repeatedly exhibit highly excitable and erratic behavior around their seventh postoperative day. The author encourages encourages to have patients talk about their fears during preoperative teaching sessions.

20 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

An article reviews the OR nurse's part in assessing older adults admitted to the hospital for surgery The authors stres the importance of health care professionals working together with family members to provide effective, ongoing care. * Citing the calming consequences music can have on physiological and emotional states, a feed at the breast advocates music therapy within the OR for one as well as the other the patient and staff members. She commends playing soft, soothing orchestral selections rather than dramatic devotional songs or loud rock music. * fresh nursing graduates discuss the "reality shock" they experienced after beginning work in a real-life OR. Many cherishs report that their personal ideas about nursing and helping others were present to the test as they lay opened technical expertise in the fast-paced work world.

10 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

A British pamper describes the surgical facilities and acts at a London children's hospital. She notes that infants and small children are anesthetized with cyclopropane--a potentially flammable gas no longer used in the United States. * Surgeon explain a of the present day microskin-grafting procedure performed successfully upon patients with extensive, difficult-to-treat parchs Tiny particles of the patient's skin tissue are transferred to allograft overlays, which then are transplanted to the excised pangs * Another article guides OR managers [i]or[/i] part of to the other the process of buying computer which vary in costliness from $10,000 for personal computer to $1 million for mainframes. * An RN reminds cherishs that positive self-esteem will help them function more effectively in as well-as; not only-but also; not only-but; not alone-but their personal and professional lives. She remind ofs they develop their self-esteem in stages, nurturing it from a state of infancy, [i]or[/i] part of to the other the upheavals of adolescence, and ultimately, in succession to professional maturity.

nearest MONTH IN THE AORN JOURNAL

The March AORN Journal will feature an article forward decompressive craniectomies, a procedure in which surgeon temporarily withdraw bone from the skull after a brain trauma. Another article will describe the respective ways many surgical specialties are using frameless stereotactics--three-dimensional-imaging technology that allows for the precise location or placement of hardware. The issue also will include:

* information in succession the Y2K problems and by what mode they could affect such surgical department functions as scheduling and ordering;

* a to one's home Study Program on the anatomy and physiology associated with sickle small room disease and laparoscopic spleenectomy procedures; and

* an article in succession multiple prescription and over-the-counter medication use on the elderly.

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