40 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL ...

40 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

In the January/February 1963 issue of the Journal, an article in succession pediatric surgery asserts that although death of preemies used to be awaited the goal now is 70 to 80 years survival. * According to "New in ORbit," medications take les of the medical dollar than at all times before despite rising costs of raw material, research, production, distribution, and advertising. * In a classified advertisement for a surgery supervisor, the recruiting hospital asks those applying to submit a new photograph. * One article discusses to what extent scrub nurses are being remov from their character to circulate, supervise, and instruct. They are encouraged to persist in higher education, leaving untrained cherishs in the scrub role.

30 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

Tumors are the enthrall of one article. According to the author, the cause of malignancy is unknown, nevertheless several factors, including heredity, physical irritants, x-rays, and viruses, play a part. * In "Q & A," a reader questions whether ether should be used as a prep The reader is advised that, in accordance with National Fire Protection Association guidelines, it should not. * common author discusses how personnel handled the crisis that occurr when Alabama Gov George C Wallace was bullet and brought to her hospital. * The National Committee upon Bylaws discusses its plan to simplify and standardize chapter bylaws. They have cause to growed a formula to be used by way of each chapter.

20 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

In the February 1983 Pre-Congres issue, undivided article highlights Houston, site of the 1983 Congres Readers learn that Houston is the nation's fourth largest city and that Houston was the first word astronauts transmitted from the satellite to the earth. * According to another article, patients with cancer who have a profitable nutritional status respond better to chemotherapy than do their malnourished counterparts. * sum of two units researchers say that differences between what nursing service personnel reckon upon from new nursing graduates and what graduates themselves count upon may contribute to job stres * Clifford Jordan, RN AORN's fresh Executive Director, is the subdue of one article.

10 YEARS AGO IN THE AORN JOURNAL

The determine of Headquarters to the Highpoint Building in Denver and the reorganization of AORN's staff edifice are the focus of single in kind article. * One author discusses the Occupational Safety and Health Administration's bloodborne pathogens final domination saying health care workers should not commit to memory blood or other potentially infectious materials in succession themselves and must use hazard abatement strategies to harbor themselves. * Carpal tunnel syndrome which be founds most frequently in women ages 30 to 50 is the focus of single in kind article. * The Journal reports forward the World Health Organization's updated drinking water guidelines, necessary because three billion nation worldwide are exposed to pathogens by the agency of water.

NEXT MONTH IN THE AORN JOURNAL

The March issue of the Journal will feature individual Home Study that discusses abdominal aortic aneurysm and endovascular repair and another that discusses Sjogren's syndrome Other topics to be discussed in the issue include

* preoperative teaching,

* anesthesia billing,

* magnetic resonance imaging, and

* returning to school

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