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Congress Horizons Dallas 1964
DALLAS 1964
The AORN National Congress Planning Committee has announced the theme, “New Dimensions of Operating Room Nursing Practice,” for the 11th annual Congress to be held March 1-5, 1964 at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas. Stimulated by the Texas State AORN’s
1963 Texas Hospital Association Theme “Learning-The Key to Growth,” attendance at this meeting was at an all-time high. National AORN President, Miss Jerry Peers and Past President, Mrs. Ethel I. West, were both guests of the Texas AORN and, with Miss Mary V. Schwendeman, AORN Executive
A O R N Committee Chairmen, 11th Annual Congress: (Seated) : Mary V . Schwendeman, AORN Executive Director, N e w Y o r k ; Jody Allen, O R S , Medical Arts Hospital, Dallas; Dema Duke, V A Hospital, Dallas ; Audrey N . Bell, Supervisor, Operating & Recovery Rooms, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas; Lila Schlosser, O R S , Medical Arts Hospital, Dallas; (Standing) : Marie B. Holt, Assistant Director of Nursing Service i n charge of Operating Rooms, St. Luke’s Episcopal and Texas Children’s Hospitals, Houston; R u t h Holland, Medical Arts Hospital, Dallas; Mary K . Baskerville, O R S , Methodist Hospital of Dallas; Mary Lambert, Instructor, Operating Room Nursing, Texas Woman’s University, College of Nursing, Denton.
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Director, they met with the Congress Planning Committee with sights set on March
1964. The Program Committee reports the selection of inspiring outstanding speakers is well
underway. This Congress promises to be the “biggest and best ever”-true Big D style! Start planning now to attend “New Dimeneions in Operating Room Nursing Practice.” “Y’all come, hear?”
CHARLES B. MOORE AWARD One of the highlights of the annual AORN Congress is the presentation of the Charles B. Moore Award to an outstanding OR nurse. The recipient of this coveted trophy at the 1963 Washington Congress was Miss Ella B. Wolfer from Houston, Texas. In recognition of her fine professional achievement during the preceding year, Miss Wolfer received a year’s membership in the AORN of Greater Houston, a beautiful engraved plaque and a gift of $300.
As the award winner, Miss Wolfer assisted AORN President Mrs. Ethel I. West at the ribbon cutting ceremony which officially opened the technical and scientific exhibit session of the Congress. In Houston, Miss Wolfer is the head nurse in the EENT operating rooms at Methodist Hospital, a position she has held since April 1955. Formerly she was the operating room supervisor at that lospital.
Assisting with 911 eye cases and 1034
ENT procedures in the eleven months preceding the Congress with an average of 159 operations a month, she has ably supervised both departments in this teaching hospital. Ella Wolfer is an imaginative person capable of carrying through her ideas for improved technics. She has several inventions to her credit. Among these is an instrument known as a House Irrigator Tip for Copius Irrigation used during surgical procedures and photocoagulation. This device received wide acclaim at medical conventions everywhere. (Fig. 1 ) . She has designed a simple, lightweight holder for tiny electrode tips. Readily autoclavable, the holder protects the tips from dulling and keeps them in an upright position. (Fig. 2). Another development credited to her ingenuity is a silicon holder for Grieshauber needles, which, due to their size, are easily lost. By preparing the needles on this device, they may be autoclaved without further handling and damaging the tips of these expensive needles. A simple method of preparing an effective eye drape was initiated by Miss Wolfer. By applying an 8” strip of pressure sensitive masking tape to a crinoline backing before autoclaving, a simple economical eyebrow drape is created which maintains a sterile field throughout the surgery because it remains in place.
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Director, they met with the Congress Planning Committee with sights set on March
1964. The Program Committee reports the selection of inspiring outstanding speakers is well
underway. This Congress promises to be the “biggest and best ever”-true Big D style! Start planning now to attend “New Dimeneions in Operating Room Nursing Practice.” “Y’all come, hear?”
CHARLES B. MOORE AWARD One of the highlights of the annual AORN Congress is the presentation of the Charles B. Moore Award to an outstanding OR nurse. The recipient of this coveted trophy at the 1963 Washington Congress was Miss Ella B. Wolfer from Houston, Texas. In recognition of her fine professional achievement during the preceding year, Miss Wolfer received a year’s membership in the AORN of Greater Houston, a beautiful engraved plaque and a gift of $300.
As the award winner, Miss Wolfer assisted AORN President Mrs. Ethel I. West at the ribbon cutting ceremony which officially opened the technical and scientific exhibit session of the Congress. In Houston, Miss Wolfer is the head nurse in the EENT operating rooms at Methodist Hospital, a position she has held since April 1955. Formerly she was the operating room supervisor at that lospital.
Assisting with 911 eye cases and 1034
ENT procedures in the eleven months preceding the Congress with an average of 159 operations a month, she has ably supervised both departments in this teaching hospital. Ella Wolfer is an imaginative person capable of carrying through her ideas for improved technics. She has several inventions to her credit. Among these is an instrument known as a House Irrigator Tip for Copius Irrigation used during surgical procedures and photocoagulation. This device received wide acclaim at medical conventions everywhere. (Fig. 1 ) . She has designed a simple, lightweight holder for tiny electrode tips. Readily autoclavable, the holder protects the tips from dulling and keeps them in an upright position. (Fig. 2). Another development credited to her ingenuity is a silicon holder for Grieshauber needles, which, due to their size, are easily lost. By preparing the needles on this device, they may be autoclaved without further handling and damaging the tips of these expensive needles. A simple method of preparing an effective eye drape was initiated by Miss Wolfer. By applying an 8” strip of pressure sensitive masking tape to a crinoline backing before autoclaving, a simple economical eyebrow drape is created which maintains a sterile field throughout the surgery because it remains in place.
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with a deaf girl with a speech impediment who can neither read nor write: teaching her to function effectively as an aide in the EENT department. The girl cleans and prepares all the trays used within the department. Miss E!la B. Wolfer was a truly deserving candidate for the Charles B. Moore Award as she so very well exemplifies a professional operating room nurse.
Fig. 1. House irrigator tip. M.iss Wolfer assisted with the use of one of the first photocoagulators and has instructed numerous residents and nursing personnel from all over Houston in its use. positioning the patient, and care of the instruments. Recently, Miss Wolfer undertook the task of assisting with the training of individuals below normal intelligence. She has worked
It is now time for you to be thinking of a candidate for the 19M Charles Moore Award. This $300 grant has been made available for the third year through the generosity of the AORN Exhibitors’ Committee in memory of Mr. Charles B. Moore who served as its chairman for several years. In September, candidate forms will be sent to all local AORN Presidents. In the meantime, consider the operating room nurses that you know and judge whether anyone of them has made an outstanding contribution toward improving nursing care in the operating room in 1963. Submit their names to your local President for consideration for nomination. Remember that all nomination forms must be postmarked by December 1, so start thinking about it right now!
Fig. 2. Aluminum holder for electrode tips.
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The AORN National Congress Planning Committee has announced the theme, “New Dimensions of Operating Room Nursing Practice,” for the 11th annual Congress to be held March 1-5, 1964 at the Memorial Auditorium in Dallas, Texas. Stimulated by the Texas State AORN’s
1963 Texas Hospital Association Theme “Learning-The Key to Growth,” attendance at this meeting was at an all-time high. National AORN President, Miss Jerry Peers and Past President, Mrs. Ethel I. West, were both guests of the Texas AORN and, with Miss Mary V. Schwendeman, AORN Executive
A O R N Committee Chairmen, 11th Annual Congress: (Seated) : Mary V . Schwendeman, AORN Executive Director, N e w Y o r k ; Jody Allen, O R S , Medical Arts Hospital, Dallas; Dema Duke, V A Hospital, Dallas ; Audrey N . Bell, Supervisor, Operating & Recovery Rooms, Parkland Memorial Hospital, Dallas; Lila Schlosser, O R S , Medical Arts Hospital, Dallas; (Standing) : Marie B. Holt, Assistant Director of Nursing Service i n charge of Operating Rooms, St. Luke’s Episcopal and Texas Children’s Hospitals, Houston; R u t h Holland, Medical Arts Hospital, Dallas; Mary K . Baskerville, O R S , Methodist Hospital of Dallas; Mary Lambert, Instructor, Operating Room Nursing, Texas Woman’s University, College of Nursing, Denton.
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Director, they met with the Congress Planning Committee with sights set on March
1964. The Program Committee reports the selection of inspiring outstanding speakers is well
underway. This Congress promises to be the “biggest and best ever”-true Big D style! Start planning now to attend “New Dimeneions in Operating Room Nursing Practice.” “Y’all come, hear?”
CHARLES B. MOORE AWARD One of the highlights of the annual AORN Congress is the presentation of the Charles B. Moore Award to an outstanding OR nurse. The recipient of this coveted trophy at the 1963 Washington Congress was Miss Ella B. Wolfer from Houston, Texas. In recognition of her fine professional achievement during the preceding year, Miss Wolfer received a year’s membership in the AORN of Greater Houston, a beautiful engraved plaque and a gift of $300.
As the award winner, Miss Wolfer assisted AORN President Mrs. Ethel I. West at the ribbon cutting ceremony which officially opened the technical and scientific exhibit session of the Congress. In Houston, Miss Wolfer is the head nurse in the EENT operating rooms at Methodist Hospital, a position she has held since April 1955. Formerly she was the operating room supervisor at that lospital.
Assisting with 911 eye cases and 1034
ENT procedures in the eleven months preceding the Congress with an average of 159 operations a month, she has ably supervised both departments in this teaching hospital. Ella Wolfer is an imaginative person capable of carrying through her ideas for improved technics. She has several inventions to her credit. Among these is an instrument known as a House Irrigator Tip for Copius Irrigation used during surgical procedures and photocoagulation. This device received wide acclaim at medical conventions everywhere. (Fig. 1 ) . She has designed a simple, lightweight holder for tiny electrode tips. Readily autoclavable, the holder protects the tips from dulling and keeps them in an upright position. (Fig. 2). Another development credited to her ingenuity is a silicon holder for Grieshauber needles, which, due to their size, are easily lost. By preparing the needles on this device, they may be autoclaved without further handling and damaging the tips of these expensive needles. A simple method of preparing an effective eye drape was initiated by Miss Wolfer. By applying an 8” strip of pressure sensitive masking tape to a crinoline backing before autoclaving, a simple economical eyebrow drape is created which maintains a sterile field throughout the surgery because it remains in place.
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Director, they met with the Congress Planning Committee with sights set on March
1964. The Program Committee reports the selection of inspiring outstanding speakers is well
underway. This Congress promises to be the “biggest and best ever”-true Big D style! Start planning now to attend “New Dimeneions in Operating Room Nursing Practice.” “Y’all come, hear?”
CHARLES B. MOORE AWARD One of the highlights of the annual AORN Congress is the presentation of the Charles B. Moore Award to an outstanding OR nurse. The recipient of this coveted trophy at the 1963 Washington Congress was Miss Ella B. Wolfer from Houston, Texas. In recognition of her fine professional achievement during the preceding year, Miss Wolfer received a year’s membership in the AORN of Greater Houston, a beautiful engraved plaque and a gift of $300.
As the award winner, Miss Wolfer assisted AORN President Mrs. Ethel I. West at the ribbon cutting ceremony which officially opened the technical and scientific exhibit session of the Congress. In Houston, Miss Wolfer is the head nurse in the EENT operating rooms at Methodist Hospital, a position she has held since April 1955. Formerly she was the operating room supervisor at that lospital.
Assisting with 911 eye cases and 1034
ENT procedures in the eleven months preceding the Congress with an average of 159 operations a month, she has ably supervised both departments in this teaching hospital. Ella Wolfer is an imaginative person capable of carrying through her ideas for improved technics. She has several inventions to her credit. Among these is an instrument known as a House Irrigator Tip for Copius Irrigation used during surgical procedures and photocoagulation. This device received wide acclaim at medical conventions everywhere. (Fig. 1 ) . She has designed a simple, lightweight holder for tiny electrode tips. Readily autoclavable, the holder protects the tips from dulling and keeps them in an upright position. (Fig. 2). Another development credited to her ingenuity is a silicon holder for Grieshauber needles, which, due to their size, are easily lost. By preparing the needles on this device, they may be autoclaved without further handling and damaging the tips of these expensive needles. A simple method of preparing an effective eye drape was initiated by Miss Wolfer. By applying an 8” strip of pressure sensitive masking tape to a crinoline backing before autoclaving, a simple economical eyebrow drape is created which maintains a sterile field throughout the surgery because it remains in place.
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with a deaf girl with a speech impediment who can neither read nor write: teaching her to function effectively as an aide in the EENT department. The girl cleans and prepares all the trays used within the department. Miss E!la B. Wolfer was a truly deserving candidate for the Charles B. Moore Award as she so very well exemplifies a professional operating room nurse.
Fig. 1. House irrigator tip. M.iss Wolfer assisted with the use of one of the first photocoagulators and has instructed numerous residents and nursing personnel from all over Houston in its use. positioning the patient, and care of the instruments. Recently, Miss Wolfer undertook the task of assisting with the training of individuals below normal intelligence. She has worked
It is now time for you to be thinking of a candidate for the 19M Charles Moore Award. This $300 grant has been made available for the third year through the generosity of the AORN Exhibitors’ Committee in memory of Mr. Charles B. Moore who served as its chairman for several years. In September, candidate forms will be sent to all local AORN Presidents. In the meantime, consider the operating room nurses that you know and judge whether anyone of them has made an outstanding contribution toward improving nursing care in the operating room in 1963. Submit their names to your local President for consideration for nomination. Remember that all nomination forms must be postmarked by December 1, so start thinking about it right now!
Fig. 2. Aluminum holder for electrode tips.
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