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Industry: Email Alert RSS Feed10 years ago in the AORN Journal - Perioperative Time Capsule
AORN Journal, Jan, 2004
New features for the 1994 Congress in New Orleans include a newcomer orientation and speaker book signings. * A study finds that 80% of perioperative nurses surveyed believed they were at significant risk for exposure to HIV and hepatitis B from blood and body fluids. The authors were concerned that 20% of respondents did not believe they were at risk.
* The AORN Board reports that they agreed by consensus to endorse the Clinton Administration's health care reform bill. * An author says that increased technology has diverted perioperative nurses attention away from patients to calibrating machines, inspecting equipment, and counting instruments.
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