10 years ago in the AORN Journal

AORN Journal, Nov, 2005

An article salutes World War II nurses. In a related "Editorial," the Editor comments that 50 years ago, nurses repaired tom surgical gloves with patches from other torn gloves and made their own cotton tipped applicators. * An author says that since the early 1950s, there has been a continuous decline in the number of basic nursing programs offering perioperative clinical experiences.

* An article discusses a new trend of performing vaginal hysterectomy as an outpatient procedure. * Two authors explain their facility's development of a career ladder to recognize achievement and promote professional growth. The career ladder replaced a clinical ladder that had poorly defined performance criteria and was enforced inconsistently.