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COMMITTEE AT WORK Four stalwarts tussle with life’s amplexities while producing a manual for AORN The manual for establishing and teaching operating room technician training programi will be available in the very near futurv. This simple statement cannot possibl\ convr\ to all of you the effort involved nor tht. reams of paper. mounds of scratch pad-. and dozens of pencils used. o r the miles o f t)pinF produred. The Committee appointed h \ t h v I’rtsident at the 1966 Annual Congrtbss i n C:liicapo. first met i n New York. then i t i €A)+ ion. Onset-on-the-Cape and again in New York. T h e members have dashed to and from meetings. using precious leaves or free weekends to sit for hours discussing. evaluating. discarding and compiling stacks of material and information. In spite of icq blasts off the. Hudson River, the distraction of Septembn on the Cape. the frustrations of travel i n foul weather sans foul weather gear. and the conflicts of personal interests and responsihilities, the manual is asarmbled and being leadied for printing. T h e Committee? Margaret Burns ( M a r g e 1, Chairman. lives b u d \ but quiet11 in Jlenham. Masfachiicetts Her house is a charming two-stor) jewel with a large yard and a wooded lot in the rear. T h e house and grounds would demand quite enough spare time activity for a ])us\ Assistant Director of Operating Rooms a1 New England Deaconess Hospital. added to which i i the care of a puppy. a “Second Hat” ( T h e Director of the Operating Room Technicians Program I. a family including nieces and nephews. a pleasant daily drive t o antl from Boston, and a very satisfactor\ social life. This was Marge’s pleasant routine BMC (Before the Manual Committee). She has done a splendid job of organizing and directing the Committee and has written her share of the manual-small wonder that she is now ( arefullv followiug an ulcer regimen!
M a y 1967
Lt. Commander Janet Kedgate did not know the Navj would be sending her to take her Master’s Degree at Catholic Lniversit\ when she said she would be delighted to work with the Manual Committee. She arYork rived for the first meeting in N ~ M quite hreathles4-and was to return to the Naval Hospital i n Sari r)iego ti) (omplr.tr. h r r assignment as Instrut tor. Operatin; t h m Technicians Training Course. and to orient he1 successoi. Janet then w r t r d hr.r gear. loaded the car. antl headed for Iknvet to attend a six-week cource i n Public Health I mluirc.metit for het ? t i Field Training-a t i ance into Catholic I tiivei%it\. Th? secorid meeting in Boqton apain f o u n d h e r i n transition: it was scheduled t h r week-end liefor? the summer course started. A familk proiec-t the newly acrpirerl Onset Hotel on-the-Cape. was the x e n e of the third meeting. with Janet acting as titeakfast chef and w a i t r e s and the male membei s of the Kedgate famil\ per forming the hoct role.. As soon a3 that meeting bas atliournrd. Janet uas driving t(J Washington to enroll in Catholic L . Needles% to sa). her share of thr manual ~ a uritten 4 between dashes to class. the library. and sessions of stud\ and research. She arrived in New York for the last committee meeting completely exhausted from a week of final exams! Virginia Rockwell is kno\+ti to Clifton Springs, New York. as Suzy’s mother. Larr\’i wife. and consultant to the operating I oom supervisors and adminiPtrators in the local hospitals. Much of her share of the manual was written in the wee hours of the morning before two-year-old Suzy awakened to demand her mother’s time and complete attention. L a r n travels during the week. so Cnntinrrcd on p n g r 27
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Continued jrom p a g e 25 weekends become family affairs with fun ski trips and the like. AORN members will remember Ginny Rockwell as the first editor of the AORN Journal. She worked with the production team in the filming of Positiw Pntierrt Sa,fely Through Simplified Operiilirig Room Nur,siug Technics, playing the role 01 thr Circulating Nurse. Ginny is rspeciall! well known fur her knowledge and proliletnwlving skills and techniques of sterilization and related areas. Her experience as editor and her ability to write will serve the AORN well: she has been retained to edit th? manual before i t goes to the publisher. Major Helen Lundahl, Army Nurse Corps. fully expected that she would be writing her contribution to the manual after she has been retired from active duty. A series of family problems complicated the required plane-bus trips from S a n Antonio, Texas to the East Coast. T h e atmosphere essential for productive group writing was further disturbed by increased military responsibilities. previous commitments to speak at ANA and AORN state and local meetings. a leg i n a cast. and a congenital inability to sa! ‘.no” when invited to volunteer to accept responyibility. Helen has spent most of her 22 years of army teaching in various non-professional training courses, either as on-the-joh training instructor in the operating room. o r a? instructor of combined didactic and suprrvised training programs. She presentl!. sul’ervises the Centralized Material Section of Brooke General Hospital. Fort Sam Houston. Texas---an assignment requiring an operating room nursing background. Her tearhiti? capabilities are tested daily by a statl‘ of operating room technicians and as many a< 20 on-the-job operating room twhniriari trainees. This past year has been a hectic. one. Helen’s only real regret: she has not
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M a y 1967
Lt. Commander Janet Kedgate did not know the Navj would be sending her to take her Master’s Degree at Catholic Lniversit\ when she said she would be delighted to work with the Manual Committee. She arYork rived for the first meeting in N ~ M quite hreathles4-and was to return to the Naval Hospital i n Sari r)iego ti) (omplr.tr. h r r assignment as Instrut tor. Operatin; t h m Technicians Training Course. and to orient he1 successoi. Janet then w r t r d hr.r gear. loaded the car. antl headed for Iknvet to attend a six-week cource i n Public Health I mluirc.metit for het ? t i Field Training-a t i ance into Catholic I tiivei%it\. Th? secorid meeting in Boqton apain f o u n d h e r i n transition: it was scheduled t h r week-end liefor? the summer course started. A familk proiec-t the newly acrpirerl Onset Hotel on-the-Cape. was the x e n e of the third meeting. with Janet acting as titeakfast chef and w a i t r e s and the male membei s of the Kedgate famil\ per forming the hoct role.. As soon a3 that meeting bas atliournrd. Janet uas driving t(J Washington to enroll in Catholic L . Needles% to sa). her share of thr manual ~ a uritten 4 between dashes to class. the library. and sessions of stud\ and research. She arrived in New York for the last committee meeting completely exhausted from a week of final exams! Virginia Rockwell is kno\+ti to Clifton Springs, New York. as Suzy’s mother. Larr\’i wife. and consultant to the operating I oom supervisors and adminiPtrators in the local hospitals. Much of her share of the manual was written in the wee hours of the morning before two-year-old Suzy awakened to demand her mother’s time and complete attention. L a r n travels during the week. so Cnntinrrcd on p n g r 27
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Continued jrom p a g e 25 weekends become family affairs with fun ski trips and the like. AORN members will remember Ginny Rockwell as the first editor of the AORN Journal. She worked with the production team in the filming of Positiw Pntierrt Sa,fely Through Simplified Operiilirig Room Nur,siug Technics, playing the role 01 thr Circulating Nurse. Ginny is rspeciall! well known fur her knowledge and proliletnwlving skills and techniques of sterilization and related areas. Her experience as editor and her ability to write will serve the AORN well: she has been retained to edit th? manual before i t goes to the publisher. Major Helen Lundahl, Army Nurse Corps. fully expected that she would be writing her contribution to the manual after she has been retired from active duty. A series of family problems complicated the required plane-bus trips from S a n Antonio, Texas to the East Coast. T h e atmosphere essential for productive group writing was further disturbed by increased military responsibilities. previous commitments to speak at ANA and AORN state and local meetings. a leg i n a cast. and a congenital inability to sa! ‘.no” when invited to volunteer to accept responyibility. Helen has spent most of her 22 years of army teaching in various non-professional training courses, either as on-the-joh training instructor in the operating room. o r a? instructor of combined didactic and suprrvised training programs. She presentl!. sul’ervises the Centralized Material Section of Brooke General Hospital. Fort Sam Houston. Texas---an assignment requiring an operating room nursing background. Her tearhiti? capabilities are tested daily by a statl‘ of operating room technicians and as many a< 20 on-the-job operating room twhniriari trainees. This past year has been a hectic. one. Helen’s only real regret: she has not
FOR PATIENT PROTECTION
had time for her hobby, exhibitioii hallroom dancing; there is no new troph\, to add
39 S. SANTA ANITA AVE.
to
her collection.
++
PONCHO VEST Provides o sofa relioble meihod of securing o patient in o chair. Made of heovy sailcloth. Child sizes, infont. smoll, medium and Iorge. CAT. No. 4181 . . . . . . . . . . . .$4.80 Adult sizes, smoll, medium and large. CAT. No, 4181A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .$6.bO Available in fost-drying Nylon for addition01 chorge of . . . . . . . . . . . .
51.20
POSEY FOOTBOARD Fits ANY hospital bed mattress. No bolts tc ottoch to bed. Can be used with side roils. Perpendiculor odiustment, no losing ports. Posey Anti-Rotation Supports (odiustoble, removable, cushioned) may be used with troction.
F-58. Posey Footboard, CAT. N o eoch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posey Anti-Rotation Supports, CAT. N o . F-58A. eoch . . . .
$36.00
. . . . . . $6 30
SEND YOUR ORDER TODAY
Write f o r Free lllustroted Cotalog About Other Posey Hosp:tal Equipment
J. T. POSEY COMPANY Dept.
AORN
PASADENA, CALIF. 91 107