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DENVER REGIONAL INSTITUTE May 1–2, 1970
DENVER REGIONAL INSTITUTE May 1-2, 1970 Sixteen states and a registration of over 170 made Denver “where the action is” May 1-2 when the local AORN chapter and the Association’s National Committee on Education cosponsored a Regional Institute.
Themed “The OR Nurse Faces her Responsibilities,” the Institute brought to discussion all facets of nursing duties-medical to legal, and deep onto the area of interpersonal relationships.
A “May Pole” was the center of extra-session activity during the Institute, as nurses were able to gather pamphlets on subjects current to the profession. Available were brochures from pharmaceutical plants, and information from the Association.
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Area student nurses participated in the weekend seminar, as listeners, monitors, and general helpers. Here, they enjoy places of honor at the May 1 luncheon and style show.
Keynote speaker for the event was Betty Thomas, RN, National AORN President. The operating room personnel must interact with all hospital services to insure that students receive operating room experience in the curriculum, Mrs. Thomas stated. She said only this, coupled with an expanded implementation of pre and postoperative visits can spur the survival of OR nursing. As general background for the two days’ events, Kenneth R. Wilson, of Colorado Public Service Co. traced his company’s training procedures for personnel. He applied management systems and procedures to the realm of the OR, and answered questions concerning employer-employee problems. Following a luncheon-style show, in which were exhibited high fashion and also high operating room fashion, was an active audience participation session, in which groups were now only invited, but ordered to participate. The guest speaker, Charles D. Welch, PhD, director of a communications association and managing partner of the Denver Rogers-Welch firm, divided the nurses into groups and challenged them to interact and produce answers to thought problems. Dwelling on the subject of “self,” the educator began “People in Groups’’ with a
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command: “Take out a piece of paper and write down ten positive attributes you know you have.” When the audience became perplexed after having found an average of three traits, he explained ways to know and learn “self love.” He said this knowledge and ability is necessary before relation with the group becomes possible. His presentation included observation of individual reaction in a group atmosphere. A firey panel kicked-off the second day’s schedule with two surgeons and a physicianlawyer presenting conflicting and coordinating opinions on the subject of emergency treatment and the law. Group moderator was Henry Cleveland, MD, FACS, associate professor of surgery, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver. He began the session by considering “Training of Paramedical Personnel,” emphasizing the need for on-the-spot treatment of accident victims. He showed how death rates could be greatly reduced if trained emergency medical technicians were present and ready to initiate life-saving measures. Dennis M. Mahoney, MD, LLB, JB, used the Good Samaritan Law as basis for his remarks on “The Medical-Legal Aspect of Care, and Transportation of the Sick and
AORN Journal
Injured.” He stressed that citizens need never emergency care, and salaries for nursing hesitate, for fear of legal implications, to help personnel. Closing the weekend’s educational sessions the injured, because the law covers and protects such cases. Prosecution, he said, was a double presentation by Marshall Quiat, would occur only rarely, and in cases of gross LLB, Denver attorney-at-law and counsel for a negligence. Dr. Mahoney is a member of the local hospital, and Robert H. Byers, local firm of Wormwood, Wolvington, Renner and claims agent for the Hartford Insurance Dash, attorneys-at-law, Denver. Group. Topics were “Legal Liabilities and “Present and Future Responsibilities of OR Operating Room Nursing” and “Examination Paramedical Personnel in Emergency Care” of Liability Exposures in Operating Rooms.” was the subject for part three of the May 2 Stressed in the discussion was the necessity would be better, morning session. J Cuthbert Owens, MD, of immediate honesty-it FACS, professor of surgery, CU Medical according to Quiat, in the case of a clamp left Center, Denver, said OR nurses should include in the abdomen, to admit the reason for intensive operating room courses in their additional surgery, rather than attempting to studies, and should be willing to become attribute it to other causes and eventually face physicians’ assistants or else face extinction. a more complicated law suit. Represented at the Regional Institute were He said ORNs should accept more responsibility, and learn more about economics. nurses and students from Arizona, California, A “shot-gun” style quick question and Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, answer period followed the panel talks and Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, answered queries about the advent of the North and South Dakota, Texas, Utah and physician’s assistant, standardized hospital Wyoming.
In what was perhaps the most heated discussion of the two days, Henry Cleveland, M D ; Dennis Mahoney, M D and Cuthbert Owens, MD,shot out often contradictory opinions, and stimulated active interest in emergency care, its medical and legal aspects. Seated with the three is Marva Shoates, RN, presiding Chairman of the day.
Themed “The OR Nurse Faces her Responsibilities,” the Institute brought to discussion all facets of nursing duties-medical to legal, and deep onto the area of interpersonal relationships.
A “May Pole” was the center of extra-session activity during the Institute, as nurses were able to gather pamphlets on subjects current to the profession. Available were brochures from pharmaceutical plants, and information from the Association.
J u l y 1970
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Area student nurses participated in the weekend seminar, as listeners, monitors, and general helpers. Here, they enjoy places of honor at the May 1 luncheon and style show.
Keynote speaker for the event was Betty Thomas, RN, National AORN President. The operating room personnel must interact with all hospital services to insure that students receive operating room experience in the curriculum, Mrs. Thomas stated. She said only this, coupled with an expanded implementation of pre and postoperative visits can spur the survival of OR nursing. As general background for the two days’ events, Kenneth R. Wilson, of Colorado Public Service Co. traced his company’s training procedures for personnel. He applied management systems and procedures to the realm of the OR, and answered questions concerning employer-employee problems. Following a luncheon-style show, in which were exhibited high fashion and also high operating room fashion, was an active audience participation session, in which groups were now only invited, but ordered to participate. The guest speaker, Charles D. Welch, PhD, director of a communications association and managing partner of the Denver Rogers-Welch firm, divided the nurses into groups and challenged them to interact and produce answers to thought problems. Dwelling on the subject of “self,” the educator began “People in Groups’’ with a
142
command: “Take out a piece of paper and write down ten positive attributes you know you have.” When the audience became perplexed after having found an average of three traits, he explained ways to know and learn “self love.” He said this knowledge and ability is necessary before relation with the group becomes possible. His presentation included observation of individual reaction in a group atmosphere. A firey panel kicked-off the second day’s schedule with two surgeons and a physicianlawyer presenting conflicting and coordinating opinions on the subject of emergency treatment and the law. Group moderator was Henry Cleveland, MD, FACS, associate professor of surgery, University of Colorado Medical Center, Denver. He began the session by considering “Training of Paramedical Personnel,” emphasizing the need for on-the-spot treatment of accident victims. He showed how death rates could be greatly reduced if trained emergency medical technicians were present and ready to initiate life-saving measures. Dennis M. Mahoney, MD, LLB, JB, used the Good Samaritan Law as basis for his remarks on “The Medical-Legal Aspect of Care, and Transportation of the Sick and
AORN Journal
Injured.” He stressed that citizens need never emergency care, and salaries for nursing hesitate, for fear of legal implications, to help personnel. Closing the weekend’s educational sessions the injured, because the law covers and protects such cases. Prosecution, he said, was a double presentation by Marshall Quiat, would occur only rarely, and in cases of gross LLB, Denver attorney-at-law and counsel for a negligence. Dr. Mahoney is a member of the local hospital, and Robert H. Byers, local firm of Wormwood, Wolvington, Renner and claims agent for the Hartford Insurance Dash, attorneys-at-law, Denver. Group. Topics were “Legal Liabilities and “Present and Future Responsibilities of OR Operating Room Nursing” and “Examination Paramedical Personnel in Emergency Care” of Liability Exposures in Operating Rooms.” was the subject for part three of the May 2 Stressed in the discussion was the necessity would be better, morning session. J Cuthbert Owens, MD, of immediate honesty-it FACS, professor of surgery, CU Medical according to Quiat, in the case of a clamp left Center, Denver, said OR nurses should include in the abdomen, to admit the reason for intensive operating room courses in their additional surgery, rather than attempting to studies, and should be willing to become attribute it to other causes and eventually face physicians’ assistants or else face extinction. a more complicated law suit. Represented at the Regional Institute were He said ORNs should accept more responsibility, and learn more about economics. nurses and students from Arizona, California, A “shot-gun” style quick question and Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, answer period followed the panel talks and Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, answered queries about the advent of the North and South Dakota, Texas, Utah and physician’s assistant, standardized hospital Wyoming.
In what was perhaps the most heated discussion of the two days, Henry Cleveland, M D ; Dennis Mahoney, M D and Cuthbert Owens, MD,shot out often contradictory opinions, and stimulated active interest in emergency care, its medical and legal aspects. Seated with the three is Marva Shoates, RN, presiding Chairman of the day.