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30 years ago in the AORN Journal

The "President's Message" gives an update on continuing efforts to develop a certification program for OR nurses. An accompanying questionnaire asks nurses whether they would try to become certified and what means they would use to prepare for the examination. * An author says hospitals are ready to embrace the marketing concept, and no hospital will want to be left behind if a mass marketing effort occurs. * An article states that outpatient visits to US community hospitals have increased nearly 24% in the past four years. More than 200 million visits to outpatient facilities were recorded in 1976. * A news item reports that passively inhaled cigarette smoke can be physiological and pharmacologically harmful to nonsmokers.

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30 years ago in the AORN Journal

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