San Antonio Association of Operating Room Nurses
San Antonio, Texas Chapter #4409

Welcome to the home page of the San Antonio Chapter of The Association of Operating Room Nurses. 

The San Antonio Chapter of AORN wishes to express 

our condolences to those who lost loved ones 

and to those injured on September 11, 2001 in 

New York, Washington DC, and Pennsylvania.

We also wish to thank those who came to the aid of those in need.  

To the nurses, physicians, and all those involved:

Thank You

The Association of Operating Room Nurses is the professional organization of perioperative nurses that unites its members by providing education, representation, and standards for quality patient care.

Welcome to the Home Page of the San Antonio Chapter of the Association of Operating Room Nurses. With this page, we hope to provide an additional avenue of information disbursement. To inform both the professional nurse and the public about our association. If you have any information, sites, or newsgroups that you feel would be appropriate for this site, please send it via E-mail to the Web master. Thank you for stopping by.

JCAHO Questions!!!!

Here you will find questions asked at a recent JCAHO survey.

If you just want to download the questions in a Word document right click 

here and do a save as.

Thanks to Cathy Mcintire someplace on the right coast. ;)

Memory Lane

Enjoy a walk down memory lane prepared by Marie Paulson.
Click here to begin your walk.

Policy and Procedure Exchange

Why re-invent the wheel? 
New policy and procedure exchange.
Here is a place to find, view, and exchange policies and procedures.

Updated 7/29/02/2002

Updated Policies Page

The Competencies!!!!  AT LAST!!!!

Thanks to Renee Hughes the are 69 additional competencies.

I have put them on a separate page to make it easier to view them

AND

Anesthesia Technician Competency  From Bob Baxter

Created by Suzanne Smith RN and Sue Rork LPN (Anesthesia
Technician).

SURGICAL SITE VERIFICATION

The “7” Absolutes

1. Preoperatively, each procedure involving laterality will be scheduled  with right or left designation.

2. Preoperatively, each correct surgical site will be verified by an RN with the OR schedule and the patient’s current medical record.

3. Preoperatively, the patient, designee or hospital care provider will verify each surgical site in the presence of an RN and when applicable, will mark each side (right or left).

4. Preoperatively, the circulating RN will interview the patient and review the patient’s current medical record to re-verify each surgical procedure and site.

5. Intra-operatively, the circulating RN, and the surgeon will review the patient’s medical record, results of diagnostic tests and verbally confirm each site.

6. Intra-operatively, once the patient is draped, the surgical team will pause and verbally confirm each site prior to incision, by the circulating nurse with the surgeon.

7. Intra-operatively, the circulating RN will document the verification process in the patient’s medical record.

Note:  When performing multiple procedures repeat steps #5-#7 for each additional procedure. 

The “7” Absolutes are intended to be a clinical practice model for the development of each facility’s policy & procedure.

 
click here for more information, to see what's there, and how to participate.

Many of you have requested the Perioperative Care plan from Melanie McKennet.
It is available here.
Note: This is not an editable document. Kinda like getting a fax. ;)
Click here for the care plan.
More Age Specific Information - Case Studies from Sophia M. Schild, RN, CNOR and the answers!

  Creutzfeldt Jacobs Disease information Update

Thanks to Chip Moore with Getinge Castle there is important additional

information regarding this disease on our Policy Exchange page.

New Jersey State Department of Health (information)

Duke University (policy and procedure)

PeriOperative Newsgroup Website

Bob Baxter has set up this site to assist those individuals that wish to

subscribe to the PeriOperative Newsgroup.  

This newsgroup allows rural or isolated OR nurses to network with their 

peers and get opinions and answers to their questions. It introduces North 

American nurses to healthcare culture in other parts of the world, and lets 

nurses from that world listen in on our concerns.

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