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Exhibits
Exhibits The ribbon cutting opens the three days of exhibits. A total of 253 technical exhibits occupied 67,700 s9 ft and 13 scientific exhibits occupied 1,500 s9 ft.
And after it's over it all must be packed up.
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New roles for OR nurses “Nursing today is action nursing. Yesterday it was reaction nursing.” lngeborg G Mauksch, speaking on the “Paradox of the risk taker,” urged her audience to be assertive and to “put your competence into the picture at the right time.” Mauksch’s address on the final day of the 24th annual AORN Congress preceded the closing session. She is the Valere Potter distinguished service professor of nursing and family nurse clinician, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tenn. Mauksch stated she does not believe in the expanded role for nurses but advocates a “new role” with “new behaviors” of risk taking, decision making, accountability, and assertiveness. Studies of profiles of nurses, however, have shown they have a high need for blame avoidance and a low need for risk taking, Mauksch commented. She said, “They are not suited to be accountable,” and yet “the highest level of risk taking is accountability.” Admonishing her audience, she pointed out that operating room nurses are the only speciatty referring to itself in geographic terms. She said the thrust should be on nursing rather than locale. “You need development of a role that is yours,” she stated and suggested the term “perioperative nurse clinician.” With this, she said, “We could work out a variety of roles.” They would involve visiting the patient before surgery as preoperative teacher and socializer: visiting the patient immediately prior to surgery: serving as the nurse during the operation itself as first assistant, scrub nurse, or circulator; working in the recovery room; and providing postoperative care. Mauksch believes this all-encompassing role is possible and it may be essential in terms of cost effectiveness. To prepare for the future, Mauksch advised, “We must know our past and who we are in the present so we can do our job.” The position of nurses today has been created by nurses, according to Mauksch. “Do not say unkind things about doctors. Say unkind things about nurses. We are to blame. We were not risk takers.” The complete text of Mauksch’s speech will be in the June AORN Journal.
Educational programs Congress registrants had a total of 35 educational programs to choose from-with four or five offered simultaneously. Topics ranged from chapter problems and putting on workshops to clinical subjects such as cardiovascular nursing, scoliosis, traumatic amputations, and care of the patient having local anesthesia. Product selection, labor relations, legal questions, safety, and recovery room nursing were some of the choices. Awakening awareness was the theme of sessions on stress, prejudice, sexuality, and personal potential. Many of the papers presented at Congress will be published in subsequent Journah. A point for discussion.
Speaking on the “Psychology of prejudice” is Joseph Boskin, PhD, professor at Boston University.
Joan Guntzelman spoke on “The mourning professional. ”
Shirley A Smoyak led sessions on gaming-simulation techniques.
AORN film authors, Kay Lange (left) and Mary Kellogg, receive awards from C R Stone, general manager, Davis + Geck.
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And after it's over it all must be packed up.
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AORN Journal, May 1977, Vol25, No 6
New roles for OR nurses “Nursing today is action nursing. Yesterday it was reaction nursing.” lngeborg G Mauksch, speaking on the “Paradox of the risk taker,” urged her audience to be assertive and to “put your competence into the picture at the right time.” Mauksch’s address on the final day of the 24th annual AORN Congress preceded the closing session. She is the Valere Potter distinguished service professor of nursing and family nurse clinician, Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, Nashville, Tenn. Mauksch stated she does not believe in the expanded role for nurses but advocates a “new role” with “new behaviors” of risk taking, decision making, accountability, and assertiveness. Studies of profiles of nurses, however, have shown they have a high need for blame avoidance and a low need for risk taking, Mauksch commented. She said, “They are not suited to be accountable,” and yet “the highest level of risk taking is accountability.” Admonishing her audience, she pointed out that operating room nurses are the only speciatty referring to itself in geographic terms. She said the thrust should be on nursing rather than locale. “You need development of a role that is yours,” she stated and suggested the term “perioperative nurse clinician.” With this, she said, “We could work out a variety of roles.” They would involve visiting the patient before surgery as preoperative teacher and socializer: visiting the patient immediately prior to surgery: serving as the nurse during the operation itself as first assistant, scrub nurse, or circulator; working in the recovery room; and providing postoperative care. Mauksch believes this all-encompassing role is possible and it may be essential in terms of cost effectiveness. To prepare for the future, Mauksch advised, “We must know our past and who we are in the present so we can do our job.” The position of nurses today has been created by nurses, according to Mauksch. “Do not say unkind things about doctors. Say unkind things about nurses. We are to blame. We were not risk takers.” The complete text of Mauksch’s speech will be in the June AORN Journal.
Educational programs Congress registrants had a total of 35 educational programs to choose from-with four or five offered simultaneously. Topics ranged from chapter problems and putting on workshops to clinical subjects such as cardiovascular nursing, scoliosis, traumatic amputations, and care of the patient having local anesthesia. Product selection, labor relations, legal questions, safety, and recovery room nursing were some of the choices. Awakening awareness was the theme of sessions on stress, prejudice, sexuality, and personal potential. Many of the papers presented at Congress will be published in subsequent Journah. A point for discussion.
Speaking on the “Psychology of prejudice” is Joseph Boskin, PhD, professor at Boston University.
Joan Guntzelman spoke on “The mourning professional. ”
Shirley A Smoyak led sessions on gaming-simulation techniques.
AORN film authors, Kay Lange (left) and Mary Kellogg, receive awards from C R Stone, general manager, Davis + Geck.
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