10 years ago in the AORN Journal - Perioperative Time Capsule

AORN Journal,  May, 2003  

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One article discusses using pediatric patients' artwork as a preoperative assessment tool. Children's drawings often express concerns that they are unable to voice. * A study of surgical patients' perceptions of nurses' caring behaviors found "know what they are doing" and "be kind, considerate" to be the most important behaviors and "visit me if I move to another hospital unit" to be least important.

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* An article on reoperative cardiac surgery states that patients often require reoperative surgery because they have been noncompliant with rehabilitation after an initial surgery. * "OR Nursing Law" reports on a case in which an anesthetized patient heard a surgeon make disparaging remarks about her.

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