AORN Journal

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Articles in May 2004 issue of AORN Journal

• Health professionals key in promoting smoking cessation
• Protect your patient—it is never too late to reposition
  by Mona Lisa Macapagal
• Demand for minimally invasive cosmetic procedures rises
• Educating nurses into the perioperative arena
  by Paula Anne Latz
• Aseptic technique; electrosurgical safety; abbreviations; instrument markinq tape; medication security
  by Ramona Conner
• Opportunities from the center for perioperative education
• Combining exercise and medication may cure depression
• Publish a management article in the AORN Journal
• Making Sense of Spirituality in Nursing Practice—An Interactive Approach
  by Gretchen Rogers
• Increase in nursing school enrollments/graduations
• Is aspirin helpful in preventing heart attack?
• Staff Development Nursing Secrets
  by Diane S. Johnson
• A vision and a promise
  by William J. Duffy
• Length of stay, discharge disposition, and hospital charge predictors
  by Cynthia D. Epps
• Orthopedic Nursing Secrets
  by Kay Smith
• Prenatal secondhand smoke harder on poor children
• Policy affects hiring of foreign health care workers
• AORN bariatric surgery guideline
• New certification study guide available
• Nurses—one body, one voice
  by Nancy J. Girard
• Reaching out to future generations—introduction at the high school level
• Summer is approaching—have you had a tetanus shot?
• Perioperative time capsule
• Alzheimer's disease a hormone replacement risk factor
• Congress lost and found items available at headquarters
• Improving verbal communication in clinical care
  by Suzanne C. Beyea
• Herbal product use and perioperative patients
  by Cheryl MacKichan
• Recognizing professional and volunteer activities
  by Jean J. Hahn
• Double gloving; smoking and fracture risk; shunt treatment for hydrocephalus; venous thromboembolism
  by George Allen
• Contest seeks to reward nurses' accomplishments
• Protecting patients from potential injuries
  by Ellen K. Murphy
• The nursing shortage and the Nurse Reinvestment Act
  by Burke Beu