30 years ago in the AORN Journal - Perioperative Time Capsule

The "Editorial" discusses the US Supreme Court's recent legalization of abortion. Nurses who had not been involved in abortion procedures now faced the decision of whether to assist in such procedures. * An article on multiple-dose vial contamination points out that if 10 nurses use the same vial, one inadvertent contamination may affect nine other patients. * One author says student nurses do not receive adequate education about the OR; thus, OR nursing has become the "black sheep or the stepchild of the nursing field." * An article on mandibular prognathism (ie, abnormal projection of the lower jaw) states that people with this condition sometimes become introverts and acquire inferiority complexes.

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