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Industry: Email Alert RSS Feed30 years ago in the AORN Journal
AORN Journal, Jan, 2005
In "Speak Out," an author urges facilities to develop role expectations or job descriptions for all nursing staff members in the OR as one way to make the need for nurses in the OR apparent in the face of budget cuts. * A report on the American College of Surgeons (ACS) Congress quotes the ACS president as saying that 6% of board certified surgeons currently graduate from foreign medical schools, and by 2000, this number will be approximately 20%.
* An author discusses the validity of skin preparations, including specific antiseptic agents, the duration of surgical scrub, and routine preoperative shaving. * An article details the blepharoplasty procedure for correction of baggy eyelids (ie, ptosis).
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