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A Message from the President
A MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT Ina Love Williams R.N.
With growth and progress comes change! This month’s issue includes an announcement of our National Committees for the coming year. In this listing, you will notice the structuring of new committees as well as the re-structuring of former committees to encompass their expanding activities. You will also see a number of members listed who will be serving on a National Committee for the first time. These changes are the product of sound reasoning. As a membershiporiented organization, we are responsible for providing opportunities for as many of our members as possible. One of the objectives of AORN is to foster leadership qualities in the registered, professional operating room nurse. Committee work provides a medium for activating and developing the potential of our members as we look to each of them as a possible future leader of our organization. With the above objectives in mind, annual committee appointments are made by the Board of Directors. We would like to retain members on the same committee year after year because of their outstanding performance and contributions, but would this be truly fair to the rest of the membership? Former committee members are relied upon as valuable resource persons, and several of them will be serving as special consultants to a specific committee this year. These persons
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will be unique adjuncts to committee activity while we seek to expand the productivity and capabilities of others. Most committees have been structured with a member of the Board serving on them in order to provide a direct liaison with the Board of Directors as a whole body. This arrangement will insure proper continuity and understanding as well as expedite committee activity. In the following months, you will find Committee-at-Work Reports in the Journal which will explain committee aims and goals, projects, activities and progress as well as restructuring where applicable. Please feel free to contact any committee member if he or she can be of assistance to you. There are some vacancies remaining on a few committees which the Board of Directors is seeking to fill as quickly Bs possible. Additional appointments will be acknowledged in a future issue of the Journal. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express gratitude to all who accepted appointments on National Committees this year. We hope that this experience of service will prove to be exciting and rewarding for each of you, and we are confident that AORN will benefit from the valuable ideas and contributions of the various committees. Progress can be reported in other areas as well. The qualifying examination for candi-
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dates for office of National AORT has been given, and nominees have been selected for the first National AORT ballot. At headquarters, membership processes have been readied to receive members into this new, national organization for OR technicians. We are also very pleased to announce that Dr. E. Lee Strohl has been appointed as the ACS Representative to the AORT Advisory Board. Members of the AORT Advisory Board; Miss Myra Kay Slavens, Educational Director and consultant to the Board; members of the AORT Qualifying Examination Committee; the ORT Program Evaluation Committee as well as our headquarters staff deserve our plaudits for their outstanding accomplishments in structuring, implementing and assisting the technician organization to reach fruition. Certainly, one must express gratitude to the many AORN chapters and their members who have guided and assisted technicians in forming local AORT chapters. This joint endeavor of AORN and the technicians exemplifies what can be accomplished through cooperation and concerted effort. addition, the student manual for operating room technicians is in the stage of preparation, and, hopefully, will be ready for publication later this year as a companion source book to our instructor’s manual, Teaching the Operating Room Technician. Our relations with allied professional associations haze been strengthened and broadened through personal meetings with representatives of the respective organizations. It is our aim to develop better working relations which will aid in our making more definitive contributions to the total health field. Earlier this year, 1 stated that we must implement programs responsive to the needs of professional OR nurses. Approval to proceed with one such program has been given. A pilot project, now in the final planning stages, has been designed to meet the needs of operating room instructors and OR
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inservice directors. This project, an audiovisual seminar, will draw on innovations, resources and materials available as teaching aids in this expanding and exciting field. Our plans are to schedule the seminar in early September. You will receive more complete information about it very soon. Make plans now to attend. Only a limited number of registrants will be accepted. Before introducing the 1969-70 Committee members, I should like to thank those who served AORN so well in the past year, particularly the Board members who gave unstintingly of their time and energy. Foremost among them is Audrey Bell whose strong leadership gave us impetus to achieve our goals. Sister Mary Carmen, our Vice-president, also served us well, and we regret that her new position made relinquishing her office a necessity. Mary Morgan also resigned as Secretary during her second term because of the pressures of school and a heavy workload. We thank her and look forward to her return. AORN NATIONAL COMMITTEES 1969-1970 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Ina Love Williams, Chairman, Virginia Betty Thomas, Colorado caroline R ~ N~~ ~Yo& ~ ~ ~ Jerry Peers, California
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BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
Jerry Peers, Chairman, California
Betty Thomas, Colorado Martha Pariapiano, Illinois BYLAWS COMMITTEE Louise Bagshaw, Chairman, New York Naomi Nisensonv New YOrk Glenn Runnells, Wisconsin Rountree, California Mary Ann Berger, Ohio POLICY COMMITTEE Ruth M ~ Chairman, ~ T~~~~ ~ ~ Louise Bagshaw, New York Martha Parlapianoi Illinois Ruth Bramhall, Washington
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PROFESSIONAL LIAISON COMMITTEE Chairman3 Texas Sister Mary Carmen, Pennsylvania jerVpeere,California Audrey N*
AORN Journal
AUDIO-VISUAL COMMITTEE Ludmila Davis, Chairman, California Betty Thomas, Colorado Audrey N. Bell, Texas
WEST COAST: Wyn Hutton, Washington MID-WEST: Stephanie Hamer, Illinois
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Frances Reeser, Chairman, New York Rita Honvitz, Missouri Mabel Crawford, California Sister William Marie, Maryland Joan Miller, Michigan Sister Dolores Kane, Illinois Sarah Kilgore, Ohio Barba Edwards, Nebraska Ruth Metzger, Texas Leona Fisher, Oregon Consultants Mary Wilson, Texas Lora Craig, Florida Barbara Volpe, New York
STATEMENT COMMITTEE Mary Morgan, Chairman, California Lucy Jo Atkinson, New Jersey Myra Slavens, New York
AORN-AORT COMMITTEE (AORT ADVISORY BOARD) Betty Thomas, Chairman, Colorado Vivian Tentoni, Wisconsin Jacqueline Willingham, New Jersey Robert Eades, ORT, New Jersey Barbara Bailey, ORT, Texas Wilford Dyer, ORT, California Edward Weimer, AHA Representative, Texas Dr. E. Lee Strohl, ACS Representative-Illinois Myra Slavens, Consultant, New York h a Love Williams, Special Consultant, Virginia ORT QUALIFYING EXAMINATION COMMITTEE Carolyn Knopp, Chairman, Georgia Doris Armstrong, Maryland Emily Cochlin, Pennsylvania Myra Slavens, Consultant, New York ORT PROGRAM EVALUATION COMMITTEE Virginia Rockwell, Chairman, New York Margaret Bums, Massachusetts Helen Lundahl, Texas Jerry Peers, California NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION Stephanie Hamer, Chairman, Illinois Regional ReDresentatives:
NORTHEAST: Mary Curran, New York EAST COAST: Bernadine Augustyniak, Maryland SOUTH: Barbara Marks, Florida MID-ATLANTIC: Diane Fields, Ohio SOUTHWEST: Muriel Maddison, Texas MOUNTAIN : Catherine Lange, Colorado
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MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Caroline Rogers, Chairman, New York Regional Representatives NORTHEAST: Connie Judkins, New York Guy Kreusch, Connecticut EAST COAST: Anna Rasmussen, Maryland Mary Van Poole, North Carolina SOUTH: Frankie Black, Tennessee (To be appointed) MID-ATLANTIC: Olga Manfred, Pennsylvania Jeanne Baker, Kentucky MID-WEST: Esther Erickson, Illinois Nancy O’Neill, Iowa SOUTHWEST: June Murphy, Texas Edith Chapman, Nebraska MOUNTAIN: Carolyn Fylling, Colarado Carole Cohen, fizona WEST COAST: (To be appointed) Zelpha Burbank, California STATE REPRESENTATIVES (FOR MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE) Bess Owens-Hawaii Virginia Kuhn-Alaska OR NURSING RESEARCH CCMMITTEE Barbara Minckley, Chairman, California Helen Lundahl, Texas Kathleen Weil, New York CHARLES B. MOORE AWARD COMMITTEE Mary Greer, Chairman, Maryland Marie Clancy, Massachusetts Sylvia Doyle, Texas COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS (Elected Committee) Jane McCluskey, Chairman, New York Lester Lackie, California Stephanie Hamer, Illinois Bess Owens, Hawaii Harriet Draper, California
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With growth and progress comes change! This month’s issue includes an announcement of our National Committees for the coming year. In this listing, you will notice the structuring of new committees as well as the re-structuring of former committees to encompass their expanding activities. You will also see a number of members listed who will be serving on a National Committee for the first time. These changes are the product of sound reasoning. As a membershiporiented organization, we are responsible for providing opportunities for as many of our members as possible. One of the objectives of AORN is to foster leadership qualities in the registered, professional operating room nurse. Committee work provides a medium for activating and developing the potential of our members as we look to each of them as a possible future leader of our organization. With the above objectives in mind, annual committee appointments are made by the Board of Directors. We would like to retain members on the same committee year after year because of their outstanding performance and contributions, but would this be truly fair to the rest of the membership? Former committee members are relied upon as valuable resource persons, and several of them will be serving as special consultants to a specific committee this year. These persons
June 1969
will be unique adjuncts to committee activity while we seek to expand the productivity and capabilities of others. Most committees have been structured with a member of the Board serving on them in order to provide a direct liaison with the Board of Directors as a whole body. This arrangement will insure proper continuity and understanding as well as expedite committee activity. In the following months, you will find Committee-at-Work Reports in the Journal which will explain committee aims and goals, projects, activities and progress as well as restructuring where applicable. Please feel free to contact any committee member if he or she can be of assistance to you. There are some vacancies remaining on a few committees which the Board of Directors is seeking to fill as quickly Bs possible. Additional appointments will be acknowledged in a future issue of the Journal. On behalf of the Board of Directors, I would like to express gratitude to all who accepted appointments on National Committees this year. We hope that this experience of service will prove to be exciting and rewarding for each of you, and we are confident that AORN will benefit from the valuable ideas and contributions of the various committees. Progress can be reported in other areas as well. The qualifying examination for candi-
9
dates for office of National AORT has been given, and nominees have been selected for the first National AORT ballot. At headquarters, membership processes have been readied to receive members into this new, national organization for OR technicians. We are also very pleased to announce that Dr. E. Lee Strohl has been appointed as the ACS Representative to the AORT Advisory Board. Members of the AORT Advisory Board; Miss Myra Kay Slavens, Educational Director and consultant to the Board; members of the AORT Qualifying Examination Committee; the ORT Program Evaluation Committee as well as our headquarters staff deserve our plaudits for their outstanding accomplishments in structuring, implementing and assisting the technician organization to reach fruition. Certainly, one must express gratitude to the many AORN chapters and their members who have guided and assisted technicians in forming local AORT chapters. This joint endeavor of AORN and the technicians exemplifies what can be accomplished through cooperation and concerted effort. addition, the student manual for operating room technicians is in the stage of preparation, and, hopefully, will be ready for publication later this year as a companion source book to our instructor’s manual, Teaching the Operating Room Technician. Our relations with allied professional associations haze been strengthened and broadened through personal meetings with representatives of the respective organizations. It is our aim to develop better working relations which will aid in our making more definitive contributions to the total health field. Earlier this year, 1 stated that we must implement programs responsive to the needs of professional OR nurses. Approval to proceed with one such program has been given. A pilot project, now in the final planning stages, has been designed to meet the needs of operating room instructors and OR
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inservice directors. This project, an audiovisual seminar, will draw on innovations, resources and materials available as teaching aids in this expanding and exciting field. Our plans are to schedule the seminar in early September. You will receive more complete information about it very soon. Make plans now to attend. Only a limited number of registrants will be accepted. Before introducing the 1969-70 Committee members, I should like to thank those who served AORN so well in the past year, particularly the Board members who gave unstintingly of their time and energy. Foremost among them is Audrey Bell whose strong leadership gave us impetus to achieve our goals. Sister Mary Carmen, our Vice-president, also served us well, and we regret that her new position made relinquishing her office a necessity. Mary Morgan also resigned as Secretary during her second term because of the pressures of school and a heavy workload. We thank her and look forward to her return. AORN NATIONAL COMMITTEES 1969-1970 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Ina Love Williams, Chairman, Virginia Betty Thomas, Colorado caroline R ~ N~~ ~Yo& ~ ~ ~ Jerry Peers, California
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BUDGET AND FINANCE COMMITTEE
Jerry Peers, Chairman, California
Betty Thomas, Colorado Martha Pariapiano, Illinois BYLAWS COMMITTEE Louise Bagshaw, Chairman, New York Naomi Nisensonv New YOrk Glenn Runnells, Wisconsin Rountree, California Mary Ann Berger, Ohio POLICY COMMITTEE Ruth M ~ Chairman, ~ T~~~~ ~ ~ Louise Bagshaw, New York Martha Parlapianoi Illinois Ruth Bramhall, Washington
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PROFESSIONAL LIAISON COMMITTEE Chairman3 Texas Sister Mary Carmen, Pennsylvania jerVpeere,California Audrey N*
AORN Journal
AUDIO-VISUAL COMMITTEE Ludmila Davis, Chairman, California Betty Thomas, Colorado Audrey N. Bell, Texas
WEST COAST: Wyn Hutton, Washington MID-WEST: Stephanie Hamer, Illinois
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE Frances Reeser, Chairman, New York Rita Honvitz, Missouri Mabel Crawford, California Sister William Marie, Maryland Joan Miller, Michigan Sister Dolores Kane, Illinois Sarah Kilgore, Ohio Barba Edwards, Nebraska Ruth Metzger, Texas Leona Fisher, Oregon Consultants Mary Wilson, Texas Lora Craig, Florida Barbara Volpe, New York
STATEMENT COMMITTEE Mary Morgan, Chairman, California Lucy Jo Atkinson, New Jersey Myra Slavens, New York
AORN-AORT COMMITTEE (AORT ADVISORY BOARD) Betty Thomas, Chairman, Colorado Vivian Tentoni, Wisconsin Jacqueline Willingham, New Jersey Robert Eades, ORT, New Jersey Barbara Bailey, ORT, Texas Wilford Dyer, ORT, California Edward Weimer, AHA Representative, Texas Dr. E. Lee Strohl, ACS Representative-Illinois Myra Slavens, Consultant, New York h a Love Williams, Special Consultant, Virginia ORT QUALIFYING EXAMINATION COMMITTEE Carolyn Knopp, Chairman, Georgia Doris Armstrong, Maryland Emily Cochlin, Pennsylvania Myra Slavens, Consultant, New York ORT PROGRAM EVALUATION COMMITTEE Virginia Rockwell, Chairman, New York Margaret Bums, Massachusetts Helen Lundahl, Texas Jerry Peers, California NATIONAL COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION Stephanie Hamer, Chairman, Illinois Regional ReDresentatives:
NORTHEAST: Mary Curran, New York EAST COAST: Bernadine Augustyniak, Maryland SOUTH: Barbara Marks, Florida MID-ATLANTIC: Diane Fields, Ohio SOUTHWEST: Muriel Maddison, Texas MOUNTAIN : Catherine Lange, Colorado
June 1969
MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE Caroline Rogers, Chairman, New York Regional Representatives NORTHEAST: Connie Judkins, New York Guy Kreusch, Connecticut EAST COAST: Anna Rasmussen, Maryland Mary Van Poole, North Carolina SOUTH: Frankie Black, Tennessee (To be appointed) MID-ATLANTIC: Olga Manfred, Pennsylvania Jeanne Baker, Kentucky MID-WEST: Esther Erickson, Illinois Nancy O’Neill, Iowa SOUTHWEST: June Murphy, Texas Edith Chapman, Nebraska MOUNTAIN: Carolyn Fylling, Colarado Carole Cohen, fizona WEST COAST: (To be appointed) Zelpha Burbank, California STATE REPRESENTATIVES (FOR MEMBERSHIP COMMITTEE) Bess Owens-Hawaii Virginia Kuhn-Alaska OR NURSING RESEARCH CCMMITTEE Barbara Minckley, Chairman, California Helen Lundahl, Texas Kathleen Weil, New York CHARLES B. MOORE AWARD COMMITTEE Mary Greer, Chairman, Maryland Marie Clancy, Massachusetts Sylvia Doyle, Texas COMMITTEE ON NOMINATIONS (Elected Committee) Jane McCluskey, Chairman, New York Lester Lackie, California Stephanie Hamer, Illinois Bess Owens, Hawaii Harriet Draper, California
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