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Home Studies Disappointing
APRIL 1985, VOL 41, N O 4
A O R N JOURNAL
Letters to the Editor
Hyperthermia Follow Up Thank you for your excellent presentation on malignant hyperthermia (February Journal). I would like to make two additional points. First, the manufacturer of dantrolene sodium recommends that the sterile water used to reconstitutethe dantrolene sodium not contain any bacteriostaticagent. The label should read, “Sterile Water for Injection.” This fact may interest personnel setting up a treatment cart. Secondly, the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States, (MHAUS), located at PO Box 3231, Darien, CT 06820, will send posters and other educational materials to interested persons. ESTHERM. VOGEL,RN OR INSTRUCTOR METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL CENTER NEWYORK,NY
cember), you are wasting Journal space and not measuring up to my expectations. I use the Journal extensively for reference-but not these articles. SUSANFLORES,RN DIRECTOR SURGICAL SERVICES GENERAL HOSPITAL EUREKA, CALIF Editor’s reply: Thanks for your comments on the Journal and its home study program. As you know, the home study program is new. We are therefore especially anxious to write (and edit) articles that arejust the right level for our readersneither too technical nor too simple. With the home study program, that problem is particularly critical-the questions must be answerable but the reader must have to do a bit of conceptualizing in order to amve at the best answer.
Pogo Loco Home Studies Drjappointing The December AORN Journal home study program is the third one I’ve taken and it was the worst of the lot. The first article was entirely too technical and poorly written. Nothing was mentioned in either article about the patient’s emotional state. How about a teaching plan, etc? The three tests were also not up to AORNs level of journalism. This one especially was very poor. Questions included had answers nowhere to be found in either article. I’m very disappointed in AORN. If future CEU offerings continue in the same vein as the three I have just completed, (July, September, De692
I read with pleasure “The Last Word” in the February Journal, especially the entry regarding pogo sticks. The same day my Journal arrived, my pogo stick amved. It was purchased through a magazine, and is designed for adults. Oh, what childhood fun. PAMELA D. HALL HOUSTON, TEX
A O R N JOURNAL
Letters to the Editor
Hyperthermia Follow Up Thank you for your excellent presentation on malignant hyperthermia (February Journal). I would like to make two additional points. First, the manufacturer of dantrolene sodium recommends that the sterile water used to reconstitutethe dantrolene sodium not contain any bacteriostaticagent. The label should read, “Sterile Water for Injection.” This fact may interest personnel setting up a treatment cart. Secondly, the Malignant Hyperthermia Association of the United States, (MHAUS), located at PO Box 3231, Darien, CT 06820, will send posters and other educational materials to interested persons. ESTHERM. VOGEL,RN OR INSTRUCTOR METROPOLITAN HOSPITAL CENTER NEWYORK,NY
cember), you are wasting Journal space and not measuring up to my expectations. I use the Journal extensively for reference-but not these articles. SUSANFLORES,RN DIRECTOR SURGICAL SERVICES GENERAL HOSPITAL EUREKA, CALIF Editor’s reply: Thanks for your comments on the Journal and its home study program. As you know, the home study program is new. We are therefore especially anxious to write (and edit) articles that arejust the right level for our readersneither too technical nor too simple. With the home study program, that problem is particularly critical-the questions must be answerable but the reader must have to do a bit of conceptualizing in order to amve at the best answer.
Pogo Loco Home Studies Drjappointing The December AORN Journal home study program is the third one I’ve taken and it was the worst of the lot. The first article was entirely too technical and poorly written. Nothing was mentioned in either article about the patient’s emotional state. How about a teaching plan, etc? The three tests were also not up to AORNs level of journalism. This one especially was very poor. Questions included had answers nowhere to be found in either article. I’m very disappointed in AORN. If future CEU offerings continue in the same vein as the three I have just completed, (July, September, De692
I read with pleasure “The Last Word” in the February Journal, especially the entry regarding pogo sticks. The same day my Journal arrived, my pogo stick amved. It was purchased through a magazine, and is designed for adults. Oh, what childhood fun. PAMELA D. HALL HOUSTON, TEX