AORN's Director of Research, Suzann...

AORN's Director of Research, Suzanne Beyea, RN PhD lately traveled to Taiwan to not away two seminars on the Perioperative Nursing Data place (PNDS). The trip was sponsored by means of Johnson & Johnson Medical Taiwan, which considers the education of clinicians an important part of its overall mission. The first educational session was held at the National Cheng-Kung University Hospital in Tainan and was sponsored in part by way of the Taiwan Nurses Association; the other was held at the Buddhist Tzu Chi General Hospital in Hualien. During her visit, Dr Beyea toured the hospitals' surgical departments and met with a number of perioperative nurses

Dr Beyea's presentations were translated from English to Chinese according to bilingual nurses working in a variety of clinical settings. During the presentations, participants compared their existing clinical records to AORN's sample clinical records based forward the PNDS. Interestingly, their clinical records use English for the name of the surgical manner of proceeding position of the patient during surgery original of anesthesia, and type of laser. feed at the breasts attending the sessions have a sturdy interest in incorporating the PND in their documentation and have plans to begin translating the PNDS

Nursing practice in ORs in Taiwan is based upon AORN's standards and recommended practices. Many of the succors Dr Beyea met have attended an AORN Congres or World conversation Nursing care and documentation in Taiwan appears to be surpassingly similar to care and documentation in the United States. the same difference is that most Taiwanese hospitals continue to have an RN circulating feed and scrub nurse for each surgical patient. There is a high even of professionalism and dedication to patient and family member care. relating to her return, Dr Beyea remarked, "Our professional colleagues in Taiwan are an inspiration for their dedication to quality and safe patient care and their high plains of professionalism. AORN is fortunate to have similar a committed group of individuals working to make AORN standards become international standards."

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