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Volume 21 Number 2 Winter 2008
Articles:
Operating room architecture and design and the effects on staff morale
Healthcare associated infection awareness and accountability: implications for perioperative practice. A literature rreview
ACORN 13th national Conference - Gold Coast, Qld.
Judith Cornell Oration: Standing on the shoulders of giants
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Volume 21 Number 1 WInter 2008
Long scrub fatigue in the operating room:
magnitude, impacts and experiences among nurses.
Teamwork in the OR:
enhancing communication through team-building interventions.
The use of visual art in judging clinical competence in the operating suite.
ACORN: the established and development of the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses.
Clincal Corner
Paediatric robotics: a nursing perspective
Student papers
Leadership in healthcare
Patients with Creutzfeld-Jakob disease in the operating suite.
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| Vol 21 Number 2 Winter 2007
Contents
 Articles
Exploring the culture of non-reporting in the perioperative environment
Review of the competency standards for perioperative nursing
The Canadian introduction to the greenlight laser
Don't tip the scales! Care for patients involved in a police investigation
Conference Reports
AFPP Congress - Harrogate, UK.
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| Vol 21 Number 1 Autumn 2007
Contents
 Articles
PEPEN: developing an educational pathway for the enrolled nurse instrument nurse in New South Wales
The impact of technological changes in surgery on work in operating departments (part b)
Perioperative nursing on a mercy ship in West Africa.
Conference Reports:
ACORN Conference 2006 - Canberra, Australia
EORNA Conference 2006 - Dublin, Ireland
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Vol 20 Number 4 Summer 2007
Contents.
 Articles:
Surgical glove practice: the evidence
The efficacy of cricoid pressure in preventing gastro-oesophageal reflux in rapid sequence induction of anaesthesia.
Clinical Corner:
The difference between porous and hollow monitoring in steam sterilisers
Enrolled nurses in the perioperative environment: working smarter - a private sector view
Survivor: a nursing challenge from the Northern Territory
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Vol 20 Number 3 Spring 2007
Contents.
 Articles:
Prevention of needle stick injury prostatic biopsy.
Technician or nurturer: discourse within the operating room.
Fiji - a different perspective
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| Volume 19 Number 2 WInter 2006
CONTENTS
 Articles
2006 ACORN National Conference Abstracts: the Editors' cut
Facilitating benefit, minimising risk:
responsibilities of the surgical practioner during electrosurgery
Setting the standard:The role of ACORN
Part II: Counting, the gold standard to prevent the inadvertent retention of surgical items - or is it ?
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Volume 19 Number 1 Autumn 2006
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Articles
Facilitating nursing research: a professional mandate for perioperative nurses.
Walk or be driven? A study on walking patients to the operating theatre
Setting the standard:
The role of the Australian College of Operating Room Nurses – Part I
Conference Reports
41st Annual AfPP Congress and Exhibition
The 13th World Conference on Surgical Patient Care
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Volume 18 Number 4 Summer 2005
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Articles
Operating room air filtration and ventilation systems.
Environmental impacts of surgical draping and gowning systems:
Results of a Life Cycle Analysis
Infection prevention in the perioperative unit - a novel collaboration
Vale - Eveyln Vera Cowell MBE, JP
Conference Reports
VPNG Conference
New Zealand College of Perioperative Nurses Conference
Report on the 52nd AORN Congress, New Orleans
World Conference on Surgical Patient Care, Barcelona
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Volume 18 Number 3 Spring 2005
 CONTENTS
Articles
The use of kinesiology as a relaxation technique for patients in a perioperative setting
A discussion of Australia's opt-in system of organ donation
Nasal Hereditary Haemorrhagic Telangiectasia
Report on Perioperative Nurses Week, April 2005
Conference Reports
NTPN Conference
AORN 52nd Congress
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In this issue of the ACORN Journal, Banda Aceh has been spelt incorrectly throughout. The editorial team apologise for this mistake
Volume 18 Number 2 Winter 2005
 CONTENTS
Articles
A surgical nurse's experience in Banda Aceh
Perioperative practice in Banda Aceh
Writing for publication
Vale Rita Stahl (1937-2005)
What do perioperative nurses do?
Conference Reports
Managing today's operating suite
Report of a paper presented at the International Nursing Education in the 21st Century
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Volume 18 Number 1 Autumn 2005
 CONTENTS
Introduction to the New Board
Articles
Innovative educational strategies
Darwin-Bali hand of friendship
An overview of laparoscopic nephrectomy
Report on a professional study tour
Canada and the UK, April 2004
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Volume 17 Number 4 Summer 2004
 CONTENTS
Articles
Latex Allergy: the central sterilisation department perspective
A review of the literature on bowel technique
Why count instruments and sponges in the operating room?
Stories from home and abroad
Conference Reports
ACORN National Conference 28 April - 1 May 2004, Adelaide SA
Victorian Perioperative Nurses Group (VPNG) 2004 Conference
Seminar Evening Wednesday 27 October 2004
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Volume 17 Number 3 Spring 2004
 Articles
ACORN Conference Keynote Address 2004
The future is now - live it!
ACORN Conference Judith Cornell Oration
Reflections on a change in lifestyle
Online education: a flexible way to learn
Reflection: an insight into nursing practice using the ACORN Competency Standards
Conference Reports
ACORN National Conference 28 April - 1 May 2004, Adelaide, SA
National Association of Theatre Nurses (NATN) conference October 2003, Harrogate, UK
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Volume 17 Number 2 Winter 2004
 Articles
Operating in the theatre of WW1: France
Sounds of silence - deafening or reassuring ?
Exploration of the use of the audible signal during pulse oximetry
Reflection on long service leave well spent
Profile
Menna Davies
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