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Articles in Dec, 2005 issue of AORN Journal

• Improving specimen practices to reduce errors
  by Donna S. Watson
• Never underestimate the importance of asking "why?"
  by Nancy J. Girard
• Health care information technology panel established
• Women are physically more sensitive to pain than men
• Learn, network, and enjoy the festivities at the 2006 Congress in our nation's capital—Washington, DC
• Sales representatives; intermediate-level disinfection; gowning from back tables; cleaning laryngoscope blades; turnover time
  by Carol Petersen
• The gift we give each other is the light of our presence
  by Sharon A. McNamara
• Initiatives address racial and ethnic disparities in care
• Future trends in minimally invasive surgery
  by Krista Bragg
• New information available on hospital care quality
• Patient safety event taxonomy standard endorsed
• Arthroscopic hip surgery
  by Rochelle A. Shugars
• AORN conferences
• Patients want new medical technologies
• Exposure to environmental chemicals on the decline
• The MEDiC Act of 2005: a new approach to safety
  by E. Catherine Becker
• Results of the 2005 AORN salary survey: trends for perioperative nursing
  by Donald Bacon
• Necrotizing fasciitis—the importance of early diagnosis and debridement
  by Janice L. Schroeder
• One million records entered in medication errors database
• Laparoscopic colorectal surgery; age as a surgical complication factor; mortality and morbidity; bacterial colonization
  by George Allen
• Hospital use of information technology increasing