The AORN Board Directors met at 3M ...

The AORN Board Directors met at 3M Headquarters in St Paul, Minn, Nov 13-15 2003 All Board members were president, as were Executive Director Tom Cooper CAE, and members of the executive team. This was the other year the Board held a meeting away from Denver to take advantage of partnering opportunities. Representatives of 3M provided the AORN Board and Headquarters executive team members with a tour of their facility, and Jim McNerney 3M's chief executive officer, spoke with AORN's leadership team members about leadership development

AUDITORS' REPORT

The Board was at handed with the June 30, 2003 year-end auditors report from Ehrhardt, Keefe Steiner, and Hottman, Certified Public Accountants and Consultants. Going forward there will be a short-term audit from July 1 to Dec 31 2003 with annual audits in December thereafter. This is to accommodate changing the fiscal year to the calendar year, which was approved through the 2003 House of Delegates.

assent AGENDA

The items onward the consent agenda that were approved include

* the July 24 to 25 2003 Board of Directors meeting minutes;

* the Aug 21 2003 Board meeting for consultation call minutes;

* ratification of Presidential and Board actions between meetings;

* ratification of the Foundation Board of Trustees' membership;

* the propos AORN Position Statement upon Patient Safety (see page 70);

* the Primer for Perioperative Education;

* authorized signers for the AORN 401(K) pension Board resolutions;

* Certification Board Perioperative Nursing sponsorship;

* renewal of the agreement with MBNA Corp; and

* Policy Committee recommendations regarding the Executive Director, Board laptops, and member status policies.

The newly pickeded Foundation Board Trustees are Melanie Barstad, president of acute care, Johnson & Johnson; view Donlon, vice president of distributor service, The Kendall Co/Tyco Healthcare; Nick Mendez vice president OM specialists, Owens and Minor, Inc; Jane Rothrock RN MSN DNSc CNOR, FAAN, professor of nursing, Delaware Community College; and cut short Von Kaenel, vice president marketing and business progress to maturity Getinge USA. The member status policies encod the accepted definition of the practice of chapter member.

LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES

The following motions made by means of the Legislative Committee were approved.

* Board members approved a revised version of the AORN Lobbyist Protocol requiring that the final supplication for a lobbyist be reviewed and approved on a group that includes Legislative Committee members; AORN's President, President-elect, Vice President, Treasurer; the Legislative Committee liaison; and a staff member from AORN's sway Affairs Department.

* The Proactive Legislative and Regulatory Initiative was approved to make secure there is an KN as the circulator in the OR for each patient undergoing surgery or other invasive deed in all 50 states.

* The revised AORN Statement of Legislative Priorities was approved to include clews to patient safety:

* retain the RN in the OR,

* Enforce and screen scope of practice,

* Ye in favor of collaboration,

* State and federal legislation for RN first assistant (RNFA) reimbursement and emerging issues.

The December issue of AORN Connections has more information in succession this program.

CONFERENCES

The Board also approved a certain global opportunities. For example, the 2005 World conversation will be held in Barcelona, Spain, and AORN will shut up a Latin American/ South American conversation in 2004.

A motion to change from the common model of two large multispecialty talks to four smaller conferences with a targeted number of attendees also was approved. This decision was precipitated through feedback from members highlighting growing difficulty in obtaining time facing to attend conferences. In addition, the ability to accommodate growing specialty assembly distresss finding methods to focus onward themes that highlight areas of practice ill addition to specialty areas, expanding geographic areas to reach more members, and declining attendance were earths for investigation, presentation, and acceptance of the modern four-conference model. The December issue of AORN Connections has more information forward this program.

FORUM AND HOUSE OF DELEGATES BUSINESS

Several recommendations were approved and placed forward the 2004 Forum and House of Delegates agenda (see page 68) Board members approved bringing sum of two units Member-at-Large and eChapter Task Force recommendations concerning qualifications for member-at-large status to the House of Delegates for consideration. The Board also vot to disband this task force and thanked the task force for their work. The propos revised AORN Statement upon RNFAs was approved to be taken to the House of Delegates with editorial changes as amended and discussed by means of the Board. The proposed AORN Position Statement forward Patient Safety also will be brought before the House of Delegates at Congress

AORN BUDGET

Board members approved the 2004 parcel for AORN, Association Technology Solutions, the AORN Foundation, and Management Solutions, Inc. The AORN Board of Directors will befitting again Feb 5-7, 2004, in Denver refer toed agenda items should be sent to President Betty J Shultz RN CNOR, at AORN Headquarters, 2170 s Parker Road, Suite 300, Denveb CO 80231-5711