THE MARCH MEETING WILL BE HELD AT INTEGRIS BAPTIST
HOSPITAL, ROOMS F,G,& H
THE MARCH MEETING WILL BE HELD AT INTEGRIS BAPTIST
HOSPITAL, ROOMS F,G,& H
CONCOURSE LEVEL OF THE MAIN BUILDING
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
The nominating committee members are looking for officers for next year. If you are interested in being involved or would like to nominate someone, you may contact me at 943-9035 or contact one of the committee members. (They are listed on the web site.) Please note the time change on this next meeting. It will be starting at 6:00pm instead of 7:00pm. There will be double CEU’s and great food. I hope to see you there.
Genevieve
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April 21-25, 2002 Anaheim, California |
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AORN Educational Events |
APRIL 2002
2002 Annual AORN Pre-Congress-Anaheim, CA-4/20/2002
49th Annual AORN Congress-Anaheim, CA-4/21/2002
JUNE 2002
WINI Conference-Washington, DC-6/8/2002
RNFA Forum 2002-Washington, DC-6/8/2002
Federal Affairs Conference and Lobby Day-Washington, DC-6/10/2002
Mastering the Skills III-Denver, CO-6/26/2002
SEPTEMBER 2002
2002 AORN/FASA Multispecialty Conference-St. Louis, MO-9/26/2002
OCTOMBER
2002 Clinical Multispecialty Conference-Las Vegas, NV
10/10/2002
CENTRAL OKLAHOMA AORN
OFFICERS AND COMMITTEE CHAIRS
2000-2001 Click HERE
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Clinical Issues: Ask AORN |
Found in March 2002 Issue
Question: Our facility recently began home
laundering of scrubs. Now people entering restricted
areas for short periods of time are not required to change into scrub attire or put on a jumpsuit. Visitors and staff members from other departments are required to wear only hair covers. This has resulted in staff members from the maintenance department, who may have been working on sewer lines and toilets, coming into the OR wearing their department uniform and only a surgical cap to cover their hair. Parents who come with their child into the OR for induction have to wear only hair covers.
This does not seem to adhere to infection control
principles, and I believe patients are being subjected to increased risk of infection. What is AORN’s opinion of this practice?
Answer: AORN does not advocate people entering
the restricted or semirestricted area in street clothes or
attire that is of questionable cleanliness. Allowing
visitors and repair personnel to enter the surgical suite in street clothes presents an unnecessary increased risk to the paitent of exposure to microorganisms.
Although, there is controversy about home laundering
scrub attire versus facility-approved laundering, AORN
recommends that all reusable surgical attire (ie, scrubs
cloth hats, warm-up jackets) be laundered in a facility-approved and monitored laundry. Extending the concept of home-laundered surgical attire to include visitors in street clothes and personnel from other departments is a very risky proposal. There is no way to know whether
the visitor’s clothing is clean or what the person has come in contact with before entering the OR.
A person wearing street clothes into the OR also
is at risk of unknowingly contaminating his or her attire with blood and body fluids and being exposed to a
potentially infectious pathogen. This is not only a health
risk to the visitor or repair people but it also is a potential liability to the facility. Allowing visitors and repair
people to wear street clothes into the surgical suite is
a reckless and dangerous practice.
AORN recommends that all people entering the restricted and semirestricted area of the surgical suite wear surgical attire. Surgical attire is defined as approved, clean,
and freshly laundered attire made from multiuse fabric or limited-use nonwoven fabric. A disposable suit that completely covers the street clothes may be worn if someone is entering the restricted or semirestricted area for a short period of time.
This disposable covering should be discarded after use and not reused.
CAROL PETERSEN
RN, MAOM, CNOR
PERIOPERATIVE NURSING SPECIALIST
AORN CENTER FOR NURSING PRACTICE
A Commitment to Quality Patient Care and Perioperative Nursing
Our Vision
The vision of the AORN Foundation is to
secure funding from a diverse donor base to
support the perioperative nurse's contribution
to patient care.
For information on scholarships availablego to www.aorn.org/foundation/index.htm
PROSTATE CANCER:
A COMPREHENSIVE OVERVIEW,
TREATMENT AND NURSING CONSIDERATIONS
SPEAKER: Jeanne Held-Warmkessel, MSN, RN, CS, AOCN
DATE: Saturday, April 13, 2002
TIME: Registration 7:30am
PROGRAM: 8:00am-12:00pm
PLACE: St. Anthony’s Hospital
COST: No cost to participants
NUMBER OF CE’S: 4.7 contact hous, approved by ONS Agenda
AGENDA
7:30 Registration/Continental Breakfast
8:00 Introduction to Prostate Cancer/Pathophysiology
and Early Detection/Staging
10:00 Break
10:15 Treatment Options for Prostate Cancer/Management of
Hormone Refractory Prostate Cancer/Advanced Disease
Future Direction
12:00 Questions and Answers/Evaluations
12:15 Adjournment
For information on enrolling
Call Genevieve @943-9035
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EDITOR’S NOTE |
Please notify me of any changes or ideas you may have concerning the newsletter.
Email me @
Annieo154@AOL.com
Call me at 692-2769
LET ME HEAR FROM YOU!
The program for March:
AORN OF CENTRAL OKLAHOMA
#3701
PRESENTS
“Professionalism and the RN equals Real Nurse” and “You be the Judge”
Speaker: Bill Duffy
DATE: Tuesday, March 19th, 2002
PLACE: Baptist Medical Center
TIME: 6:00PM
FOOD PROVIDED by Jennifer Weir with Ethicon
Ted’s Escondido
Come Join Us!!