AORN Journal
The Official Voice of Perioperative Nursing
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February 2023 Issue
4.2 CNE
The AORN Journal February issue features the following articles:
- Developmentally Appropriate Care of Pediatric Patients in the Perioperative Setting
- Patient Smoking Status and Postoperative Outcomes: An Integrative Literature Review of Studies Using the ACS NSQIP Data Set
- Compliance With and Barriers to Implementing the Surgical Safety Checklist: A Mixed-Methods Study
- Safety First: Preventing Surgical Site Infections
- Clinical Issues
- Frequency of OR wall and ceiling cleaning
- Waterborne pathogen development and associated risks
- Water management program teams and perioperative services
- Minimizing waterborne pathogens in perioperative areas
- Reducing the Environmental Impact of the OR
- And more!
Coming Up Next Month
The March 2023 issue features articles on laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair with concomitant transoral incisionless fundoplication, factors influencing perioperative nurse turnover, automating perioperative inventory management, preventing unintentionally retained surgical items, updated guideline recommendations for medication safety, and more!
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