The
Surgical Treatment of Breast Cancer and
Reconstruction
Dr. Kim
Grafton and Dr. Rob Cohen
Saturday October 11, 2003
9:00 am (Registration @ 8:30 am)
Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
Conference Room G
(Enter the main door. Once inside follow the signs)
Lebanon, N.H.
$10.00 at the door
3 Contact
hours
We are hoping for a large turnout for all
of our programs
this year. With special emphasis on
membership this year, we
are
sponsoring a drawing for a $20 dinner gift
certificate
at
a restaurant of your choice. All you need
to do is bring
non-AORN
members to the programs and your name will
be
entered into
the drawing for each guest that you
bring.
There will be one
drawing per program, so get as many
invitations out
as you can.
NOTE
FROM OUR PRESIDENT
Our
chapter 3001 has chosen a project for the
next year to start a
program
that reaches out to young people via
schools, to educate
them about
nursing. .
We would also
appreciate knowing about other pro programs
that may be in operation.
And, anyone who is interested in
participating in
establishing a program in your local area
should contact me.
Eva
Daniels, president
CHANGES
IN THE NURSING LICENSE LAW
Senate
bill 94 requires that every applicant for
a nursing
license to
practice as an RN or LPN in the State of
New
Hampshire must
submit to the Board of Nursing a current
criminal
conviction record check. Beginning
January 1, 2004,
every new
applicant and every renewal or
reinstatement
applicant for
licensure by the Board of Nursing must
send a
notarized
criminal conviction record release
authorization
form to the
Division of State Police. These forms will
be sent
with all
renewals, are available at the Board of
Nursing
office or on the
web site, www.state.nh.us/nursing.
The
division of State
Police will send the Criminal Convictions
Report to the
Board of Nursing. The Board of Nursing
must
review the
Criminal Convictions Record prior to
issuing a
license.
YOU
MUST:
*Have
the Criminal Record Release Authorization
Form
notarized.
* Mail the
Criminal Record Release Authorization Form
along with a check for $10.00 payable to
NHSP-
CRIMINAL RECORDS to the Division of State
Police
10 Hazen Drive
Concord, NH 03305
* Mail your
license application and appropriate fee to
the
New Hampshire Board of Nursing.
AORN
CONGRESS 2004
Our local chapter is in need of delegates
for for the 51st
AORN Congress. We
need 4 delegates each year. The 2004
Congress is in
San Diego this coming March 21st-25th.
Plan
ahead if you're
interested in attending as a chapter
delegate.
Contact Eva
Daniels or any officer or board member
for
more information.
AORN
NATIONAL INFO
AORN has joined with the University of
Colorado to
sponsor an RN to
BSN program on-line at a discounted price.
For more
information contact AORN or check out the
AORN
web site at www.AORN.org.
AORN is also looking for
National
committee members, so if you are
interested, refer
also
to the AORN web site or call AORN.
LOCAL
HOSPITAL NEWS AND HAPPENINGS
Alice Peck Day Hospital, Lebanon, NH
APD
is sorry to see Mike Chamberlain leave
his
management
position at the hospital. He has served
as
Department
Manager for Surgical Services since March,
2000. Mike
will be relocating to Sebastotol, CA,
where he
will be
taking a similar position at Palm Drive
Hospital. We
all
appreciate the work Mike has done for AORN
Chapter
3001,
including serving as President in 2001,
and wish him the
best of
luck in his new position.
Concord
Hospital, Concord, NH
Concord Hospital is currently working
on a revised
Correct Site and
Procedure Policy. It is presently being
presented to
different hospital groups. They are
informing the surgeons, anesthesia and
staff...with planned implementation
October 1. This
policy includes the pause before
proceeding
with
surgery.
Dartmouth
Hitchcock Memorial Hospital, Lebanon, NH
In September, Dartmouth will complete
their first
" New RN
Grad OR Nurse Intern Program". Two
new grads,
from May 2002's
graduation, worked, from June through
October, as floor
nurses at Dartmouth. In October, they
began the
didactic portion of the OR program,
while
continuing to do
floor nursing. This portion of the program
continued until
March, when the new nurses began rotating
through each
service specialty in the OR. From July
through
September, they
were offered a focus in a specialty
area.
Their choices
were Ortho/Pedi, Gen/Gyn/GU, Vasc/CT,
or
Plastics/ENT.
During this portion of the program, they
were
assigned to an
extra call person and followed a mentor
through
the call process. The new grads report
that they have
truly
enjoyed the program. During the
initial OR portion,
they
thought they needed more time in each
service, but in
retrospect,
think that the timing was sufficient to
teach them
the
basics of each service, how to utilize
resources and
provide
them with an opportunity to seek
additional time in a
focused
area.
AORN
of NH is looking for contributions to
their
newsletter.
We would like to have news from each
hospital in
our
chapter. We also need contact people from
each hospital
to
post onto the web site. Please send your
contributions to
webmaster@aornnh.com
or
snail mail to
Linda
D. Thompson RN BSN CNOR
Dartmouth
Hitchcock Medical Center
Operating
Room
1
Medical Center Drive
Lebanon,
NH 03756
